How long is the flight from LAX to Paris?
Plan on about 10h 30m to 11h in the air nonstop. Air Tahiti Nui's nonstop came back at 10h 30m in our search, and the Air France and Delta schedules list 10h 45m to just under 11h.
Paris is nine hours ahead of Los Angeles, so an afternoon departure lands the next morning and an evening one lands mid-afternoon. A one-stop trip adds at least a couple of hours, more with a long connection, so compare total journey times before you take the lower fare.
Which airlines fly nonstop from LAX to Paris?
Three airlines fly nonstop from LAX to Paris this winter, all into Charles de Gaulle (CDG): Air France, Delta and Air Tahiti Nui. Every nonstop leaves LAX between early afternoon and late evening and lands in Paris the next morning or afternoon.
Air France gives you the most choice. It ran up to three nonstops a day last winter and up to four this summer, leaving LAX from about 2pm to about 10pm, so you can choose a morning or a mid-afternoon landing. It's also the only nonstop with a first-class cabin, La Première, on the 3:25pm departure.
Delta flies one Airbus A350, out of LAX around 6pm and into CDG around 1:50pm the next day. It runs daily in summer, but last winter Delta cut it to three a week, so check the days before you build a trip around it. Delta and Air France sell seats on each other's flights, which is why a Delta flight number can turn up on an Air France plane.
Air Tahiti Nui is the one most people miss. Its Boeing 787 starts in Tahiti and continues from LAX to Paris about four times a week. It's the earliest nonstop of the day, out around 1:30pm and into CDG around 9am, and in our December search it was the lowest nonstop fare at $1,399. The catch: the plane flies in from Tahiti first, so a delay on that leg can hold up your departure.
French Bee isn't flying this route right now. It used to run the only nonstop to Orly airport, but it trimmed the flights in summer 2026 and cancelled them from September. Schedule sites show a spring 2027 restart that French Bee hasn't confirmed.
If delays worry you, the airline matters. Air France is a European airline, so EU compensation rules for long delays and cancellations cover you in both directions. On Delta, they only cover the flight home from Paris.
LAX to Paris airfare in our latest search
We searched a December 11 to 18 round trip on October 29, 2026. United came in lowest at $1,121 with one stop, with Air Canada close behind at $1,125 and Swiss at $1,149. British Airways was $1,207. The lowest nonstop was Air Tahiti Nui at $1,399, about $280 more than the lowest one-stop fare. Air France and Delta fares didn't make the ten lowest airline fares in that search.
If your dates can move, January looked far lower. A one-week trip leaving January 11, 2027 started at $729, February 11 at $836 and March 11 at $910. That January fare is about $390 below December. Each of those is one search for one date, not a seasonal average.
How we checked this page
We searched Los Angeles (LAX) to Paris fares on October 29, 2026 for a December 11 to 18 round trip and got 219 results from our fare provider, then kept the lowest fare from each airline. The monthly prices come from one more search per month, for one-week trips leaving January 11, February 11 and March 11, 2027.
Nonstop airlines, schedules and flight times come from flight schedule data and airline news checked October 29, 2026. Passenger rights come from the European Union's official site. Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.
Fares move constantly, so a VootFly advisor re-checks the price and seat before you pay. The VootFly team reviewed this page before it went live.