Flights West Palm Beach → Los Angeles
PBI → LAX
Route overview
The flight route from West Palm Beach to Los Angeles is operated using Boeing 737-800 aircraft and has a punctuality rate of 68%. With an average delay of 25.7 minutes, the route sees approximately 87 flights annually, landing at a destination airport that opened in 1926 and currently handles over 76 million passengers per year.
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 West Palm Beach (PBI) → Los Angeles (LAX) route is operated by American Airlines. Across 118 flights monitored in recent months, 71% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 20 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.69%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 12.6/100 (low), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Los Angeles the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from West Palm Beach the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Los Angeles: what to expect in this direction
Flying from West Palm Beach (PBI) to Los Angeles (LAX) heads west for about 3,743 km, a flight time of roughly 5h 6m.
Departures from West Palm Beach on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 100% of PBI-LAX flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing West Palm Beach the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Los Angeles it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 118 tracked PBI-LAX flights, 71% left on time with an average delay of 20 min and a 1.7% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (AA) | 74% | 16 min | 3.0% |
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Frequently asked questions about PBI-LAX
On the West Palm Beach (PBI) -> Los Angeles (LAX) route, on-time performance is 71% with an average delay of 20 minutes, based on 118 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on West Palm Beach-Los Angeles is 1.69% across 118 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: American 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.
