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Notable Aircraft at LAX Right Now

Widebodies, super-heavies, military traffic, and emergency squawks in the LAX pattern right now. If there's anything worth noticing, it surfaces here first.

LAX Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Los Angeles International Airport with gate, terminal, and current status. Separate from the live radar above, which shows every aircraft in the sky whether or not it's on a public schedule.

Status Airline Flight Destination Sched Updated Gate
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Top Airlines at LAX Right Now

3 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 12:08 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Kalitta Charters Ii
2
United Airlines
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737-800 and AIRBUS A-321neo are tied at the top of the LAX pattern with 1 aircraft each. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

Snapshot from 12:08 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

1
B738
BOEING 737-800
1
A21N
AIRBUS A-321neo
1
GLF4
GULFSTREAM 4

About Los Angeles International Airport

LAX's busiest nonstop destination is SFO, at 1106 flights a week. 2,936 scheduled destinations overall, served by 299 airlines. Based in Los Angeles.

Elevation
125ft
Routes
2936
Airlines
299
Busiest Route
LAX → SFO
1106x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the LAX radar. Sort by any column. Click a row to open its tracker page with route arc, altitude profile, and live telemetry.

Callsign Route Type Dir Alt Speed Dist Squawk
UAUA 652 A21N 225 121kt 1nm 7266
—DCM4227 GLF4 1,050 1kt 16nm 4725
—KII1914 B738 18,375 382kt 24nm 7257

Frequently Asked Questions

Aircraft positions refresh every few minutes. ADS-B is GPS-accurate, so what you see is within about 30 meters of the aircraft's position at broadcast time.

Altitude. Red on the ground, through green, teal, and blue for mid-altitudes, into violet above 40,000 feet. At a glance you can tell who just took off, who is climbing through the pattern, and who is cruising overhead.

They are inside the LAX radar radius but not landing or departing here. Passing through en route to another airport. We flag them so the numbers for LAX traffic actually reflect LAX traffic.

Click any aircraft on the map. You get its track line across the region and an altitude profile showing the climb, cruise, and descent.

A pulsing red circle indicates an emergency squawk: 7500 (hijack), 7600 (comm failure), or 7700 (general emergency). These are legally-required codes pilots set when something is wrong.

The radar shows live aircraft positions. Gate, terminal, and schedule status sit in the Board section above this one.

GPS-accurate via ADS-B, typically within 30 meters horizontally. Positions refresh every few minutes. When a signal drops (mountain terrain, certain oceanic corridors), the marker holds the last-known position instead of disappearing.