Route brief · LAX → MCO
Los Angeles → Orlando
$144
−51% vs typical
seasonal median $295 · difference $151
Nov 4 – Nov 8 · 4 nights
Frontier Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $231–$296
- Board rank
- Stronger than 96%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMCOOrlandoThe theme parks are the point, and the fare war they create is the cheapest way into Florida.Best windowFeb–Apr · Oct–NovAirportsOrlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)All routes into OrlandoWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for LA → MCO. Best time to be there: Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $167 and peak in December near $366 — a $199 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 6 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Frontier Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $144 for 3,547 km each way, that works out to about $20 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. It is also the cheapest of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 26% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $267 then versus $337 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 $146, on Sep 19.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 15 of 122 days priced, from 29 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $167
43% below the $295 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Orlando · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Orlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)
- Flight time
- ~6 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,547 km each way
- Typical price
- $295 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov
LA → MCO, answered.
Is $144 a good price for Los Angeles to Orlando?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $295 round-trip. At $144 you're 51% below that, saving about $151, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Orlando?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Orlando are Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LA → Orlando?
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, Nov 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 Orlando?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Frontier Airlines. 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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