Route brief · LAX → DFW
Los Angeles → Dallas
$144
−62% vs typical
seasonal median $375 · difference $231
Oct 22 – Oct 25 · 3 nights
Frontier AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $197–$373
- Board rank
- Stronger than 98%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDFWDallasAmerican’s fortress hub — which means almost everywhere connects, and Latin America is closer than the coasts.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsDFW · Love Field (DAL)All routes into DallasWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for LA → DFW. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in October around $144 and peak in December near $374 — a $230 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Frontier Airlines nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $144 for 1,992 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Dallas, this fare ranks 2nd — 6% above the $136 from Washington.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $216 then versus $232 now, across 6 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 $144, on Oct 22.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 122 days priced, from 25 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $144
62% below the $375 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Dallas · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ DFW · Love Field (DAL)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,992 km each way
- Typical price
- $375 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
LA → DFW, answered.
Is $144 a good price for Los Angeles to Dallas?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $375 round-trip. At $144 you're 62% below that, saving about $231, which we rate exceptional for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Dallas?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Dallas are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LA → Dallas?
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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 4 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Los Angeles to Dallas?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Frontier Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 3 hours.
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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