Flights Las Vegas → Oakland
LAS → OAK
Route overview
The flight route from Las Vegas to Oakland is served by Airbus A319, Airbus A320, and Boeing 737-800 aircraft. With a punctuality rate of 66%, the flights experience an average delay of 17.9 minutes, based on a total of 792 recorded flights. The destination airport, which opened in 1927, handles over eleven million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Las Vegas (LAS) → Oakland (OAK) route is operated by Spirit Airlines, Southwest Airlines. Across 1186 flights monitored in recent months, 68% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 16 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.59%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 21/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Oakland the average ATFM delay is 1.4 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Las Vegas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Oakland: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Las Vegas (LAS) to Oakland (OAK) heads west for about 654 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 14m.
Departures from Las Vegas on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 36% of LAS-OAK flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Las Vegas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Oakland it is 1.4 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 1,186 tracked LAS-OAK flights, 68% left on time with an average delay of 16 min and a 0.6% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlines (NK) | 74% | 10 min | 1.5% |
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about LAS-OAK
On the Las Vegas (LAS) -> Oakland (OAK) route, on-time performance is 68% with an average delay of 16 minutes, based on 1186 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Las Vegas-Oakland is 0.59% across 1186 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 2 airlines: Spirit Airlines, Southwest Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
