ATH→LAX

Norse Atlantic Airways is the only carrier the DOT report shows on ATH to LAX, with 104 flights and an average of 294 passengers aboard each. A single-carrier route gives a delayed passenger no same-day alternative on the same ticket, which is worth knowing before booking a tight onward connection.

The DOT's international report puts 36 flights on the pair in July 2025, the busiest month of the window, and 0 in June 2026, the thinnest. A summer-to-winter swing of that size means the winter schedule is a different operation: fewer frequencies, so a cancellation leaves a longer wait for the next seat.

EUROCONTROL's figures for Athens as a whole, every airline and every destination: 63.9% of departures and 66.5% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 94.5% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 70.0% for departures, 6 points better than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 4.1 minutes per arriving flight this year, 4.3 over the last week.

Every US route from Athens, and its full punctuality record

Los Angeles International is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 79.5% of its 190,107 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running about an hour late, and 0.97% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at LAX reaches a flight from ATH just as surely. The airport's own page has the hour-by-hour and month-by-month detail, and its live FAA status appears above when the FAA has something to say.

Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month

Every flight that departs Athens falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at Los Angeles International three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed €600 (€300 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from LAX is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 6,914 miles, 11,125 km, which puts it in the top distance band.

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There is no grade to give ATH to LAX without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: roughly a weekly round trip, a single carrier, a departure airport that gets 64% of its departures away on time and an arrival airport that runs 80% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at LAX; immigration comes before the connecting flight.

• Athens (ATH): every US route
• Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
• ATH to JFK, New York (JFK)1,443 flights
• ATH to EWR, Newark (EWR)1,218 flights
• ATH to ORD, Chicago (ORD)668 flights
• ATH to ATL, Atlanta (ATL)644 flights
• LHR to LAX, from London5,981 flights
• CDG to LAX, from Paris3,524 flights
• FRA to LAX, from Frankfurt1,142 flights
• AMS to LAX, from Amsterdam1,110 flights
• Every Europe-to-US route and airport

Greece publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.