BWI to LAX: Distance and Flight Time

How far is it from Baltimore to Los Angeles?

The great-circle distance between Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is 3,740 km (2,324 mi, 2,019 nautical miles). That is the straight-line distance; a real flight is a little longer because of air-traffic routing.

How long is the flight from BWI to LAX?

A nonstop flight typically takes about 5h 10m. This is an estimate from the distance; actual block times depend on the aircraft, winds and the exact routing. LAX is roughly west of BWI.

How is the BWI to LAX route written in code?

The pair is written BWI-LAX in IATA codes and KBWI-KLAX in ICAO codes, the form used on a flight plan. Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is BWI (KBWI), Los Angeles International Airport is LAX (KLAX).

Both ICAO codes start with K, the prefix ICAO assigns to the contiguous United States, so this is a route inside one ICAO region. How ICAO prefixes are laid out.

The two fields sit at almost the same height, within 21 ft (6 m) of each other.

Airlines flying BWI to LAX

2 airlines appear on this route in the open route dataset, 2 of them still listed as active. Each row gives the IATA code, the ICAO code and the radio callsign, which is what an air traffic controller hears:

A further 1 carrier sell this pair as a codeshare without operating it: FL.

Route and carrier data comes from the OpenFlights open dataset, regenerated here on 3 July 2026. It is a historical snapshot of scheduled connections, not a live schedule, and it includes codeshare listings, so some carriers shown may no longer operate the route or exist. How we build this · Data and sources.

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