LGW→LAX

Norse Atlantic UK is the only carrier the DOT report shows on LGW to LAX, with 168 flights and an average of 297 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 54 flights on the pair in August 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.

Coming the other way, 81.3% of arrivals from Los Angeles International into London Gatwick reached the gate within 15 minutes of schedule, across 32 flights. 38% arrived more than 15 minutes early, which is normal for an eastbound crossing with the jet stream behind it and a schedule padded for the days it is not. 3.12% of those arrivals were three hours or more late, the figure that decides a compensation claim on the return trip, and 0.0% were cancelled.

EUROCONTROL's figures for London Gatwick as a whole, every airline and every destination: 69.2% of departures and 71.9% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 96.5% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 64.9% for departures, 4 points worse than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 1.5 minutes per arriving flight this year, 1.6 over the last week.

Every US route from London Gatwick, 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 LGW 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 London Gatwick falls under UK261, the retained version of the EU regulation, 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 £520 (£260 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 UK or EU based. The sector is about 5,467 miles, 8,796 km, which puts it in the top distance band.

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Booked blind, LGW to LAX is a D+ route by the departure record, and there is no carrier choice to make. Leave at least two hours for any onward connection at LAX: 16% of departures were an hour or more late, and immigration comes before the connecting flight.

• London Gatwick (LGW): every US route
• Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
• LGW to MCO, Orlando (MCO)1,625 flights
• LGW to JFK, New York (JFK)906 flights
• LGW to TPA, Tampa (TPA)625 flights
• LGW to BOS, Boston (BOS)311 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

The departure record is the CAA's, measured at London Gatwick; the arrival record for the return leg is also measured at London Gatwick. Nothing here is measured at LAX, where the DOT keeps no record of international flights.