Route brief · LAX → AMS
Los Angeles → Amsterdam
$417
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 15 – Oct 1 · 16 nights
Royal Air Maroc1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAMSAmsterdamCanals, Vermeers and bicycles with right of way. KLM’s network makes it a deal-alert regular.Best windowApr–May · SepAirportsSchiphol (AMS)All routes into AmsterdamWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Amsterdam: Apr–May · Sep. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip — ticketed under Royal Air Maroc, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $417 for 8,939 km each way, that works out to about $23 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Amsterdam, this is the cheapest right now — 30% under the next one, Dallas. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 40 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $831 then versus $796 now, across 4 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $628, on Sep 10.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Schiphol (AMS)
- Flight time
- ~14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,939 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Royal Air Maroc
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep
LA → AMS, answered.
How far in advance should I book LA → Amsterdam?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Los Angeles to Amsterdam?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Royal Air Maroc. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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