AirportsSydney

Sydney to Los Angeles

πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊSYDπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈLAXSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport to Los Angeles International AirportAustralia to United States
Distance
12,061 km
7,494 miles
Frequency
33 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
4
Delta Air Lines, Qantas, United Airlines, codeshares included
Typical delay
29 min
90 departures

The route

Great circle, 12,061 km
SYDLAX12,061 km
12,061 km (7,494 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

How delayed is this route?

Measured over months

Departures from Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport on this route are typically 29 minutes late (likely 26 to 33), across 90 departures we tracked between 2026-03-25 and 2026-08-24.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Airlines on this route

4 airlines with a flight number here

Every airline that puts its own flight number on this route. On a busy pair most of them are codeshare partners selling seats on another airline's aircraft, so this is wider than the list of airlines that actually operate it.

Flights on this route

2 of 9 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
QF 11Qantas17:50A38865
AA 72American Airlines09:10not seen yet14

Departure times are local to Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured