$89 Find Cheap Flights from Los Angeles to Houston

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Cheapest round-trip
$147
Typical prices: $356-$173
Frontier
Thu 5/28Wed 6/3
LAX - IAH • Non-stop
Cheapest one-way
$89
Typical prices: $89-$188
Frontier
Sat 5/23
LAX - IAH • Non-stop
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Cheap Flights from Los Angeles to Houston (LAX-HOU)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Los Angeles to Houston that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from Los Angeles to Houston

Thu, May 28 - Wed, Jun 3
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9:46 am - 3:12 pm
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IAH
3h 26mnonstop
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4:07 pm - 6:01 pm
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LAX
3h 54mnonstop
$147Frontier
Thu, May 28 - Wed, Jun 3
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9:46 am - 3:12 pm
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3h 26mnonstop
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5:40 pm - 12:16 am
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LAX
8h 36m
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$148Frontier
Thu, May 28 - Wed, Jun 3
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9:46 am - 3:12 pm
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3h 26mnonstop
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4:07 pm - 6:01 pm
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3h 54mnonstop
$149Frontier
Thu, May 28 - Fri, May 29
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9:46 am - 3:12 pm
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3h 26mnonstop
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8:33 pm - 10:19 pm
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3h 46mnonstop
$150Multiple Airlines
Thu, Jun 4 - Tue, Jun 9
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9:46 am - 3:12 pm
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IAH
3h 26mnonstop
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1:41 pm - 7:20 pm
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7h 39m
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$152Frontier
Thu, May 28 - Sat, Jun 6
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3h 26mnonstop
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1:28 pm - 7:32 pm
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$153Frontier
Thu, May 28 - Sat, May 30
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9:46 am - 3:12 pm
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3h 26mnonstop
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12:06 pm - 9:10 pm
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11h 04m
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$155Frontier
Sun, May 24 - Fri, May 29
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6:40 am - 11:50 am
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HOU
3h 10mnonstop
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9:55 pm - 11:30 pm
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3h 35mnonstop
$237Southwest
Wed, May 27 - Fri, May 29
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1:45 pm - 10:10 pm
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6h 25m
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9:55 pm - 11:30 pm
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$247Southwest
Thu, May 28 - Wed, Jun 3
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$267Southwest
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Los Angeles to Houston flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Los Angeles to Houston to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

How much is a round-trip flight from Los Angeles to Houston?

This analysis is based on the cheapest round-trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from Los Angeles to Houston departing in May.

What is the cheapest Los Angeles to Houston flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest return flight from Los Angeles to Houston costs $150 on the route between Los Angeles (LAX) and Houston George Bush Intcntl Airport (IAH). Over the past month, this route was, on average, 29% cheaper than other Los Angeles-Houston routes. It is also the most popular route.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Los Angeles to Houston?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Los Angeles to Houston clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Los Angeles to Houston, you should consider leaving on a Friday and avoid Sundays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Los Angeles, you’ll find the best rates on Fridays and the most expensive ones on Mondays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Houston?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Los Angeles to Houston, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Los Angeles to Houston is January, where tickets cost $191 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are March and June, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $373 and $281 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Los Angeles to Houston?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Los Angeles to Houston, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Los Angeles to Houston, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 33% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 16 weeks before departure.

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Expert advice for your flight from Los Angeles to Houston

 
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Cheapest flight$89
Flight from Los Angeles to Houston George Bush Airport

When to book flights from Los Angeles to Houston

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Los Angeles to Houston based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking flights from Los Angeles to Houston

  • What is the cheapest flight from Los Angeles to Houston?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Los Angeles to Houston was $89 for a one-way ticket and $147 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Los Angeles and Houston?

    Yes, you'll most likely have to show a valid passport before boarding the plane in Los Angeles and on arrival in Houston.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Los Angeles to Houston?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Los Angeles to Houston?

    oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between Los Angeles and Houston, with oneworld being the most commonly used for this route.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Los Angeles to Houston?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Los Angeles to Houston.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Los Angeles to Houston?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Houston from Los Angeles is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Los Angeles to Houston?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Houston with an airline and back to Los Angeles with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Los Angeles to Houston?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Houston from Los Angeles up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Prefer to fly direct from Los Angeles to Houston?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Los Angeles Los Angeles to Houston.
Find which airlines fly direct from Los Angeles Los Angeles Airport to Houston, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Los Angeles Los Angeles to Houston

Monday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Tuesday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Wednesday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Thursday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Friday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Saturday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Sunday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

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Direct returns

Houston to Los Angeles Los Angeles

Monday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Tuesday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Wednesday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Thursday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Friday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Saturday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

Sunday

American Airlines,Delta,Frontier, +3 more

American Airlines,Delta, +4 more

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Los Angeles to Houston

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Los Angeles to Houston. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
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SouthwestOverall score based on 4314 reviews
7.0Food
7.5Entertainment
8.6Crew
8.0Comfort
8.1Boarding
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Southwest is kind of a slum airline. It’s gotten more expensive over the years for less and less service. I am a Southwest Chase Visa card holder and was forced to choose a seat in the 26th row in the middle seat. However my wife who is a rewards member but doesn’t hold a card or anything else, gets randomly assigned a normally paid seat in row 6! How does that work?

4.0 OkayDavid, Apr 2026
COS - DAL
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Southwest is kind of a slum airline. It’s gotten more expensive over the years for less and less service. I am a Southwest Chase Visa card holder and was forced to choose a seat in the 26th row in the middle seat. However my wife who is a rewards member but doesn’t hold a card or anything else, gets randomly assigned a normally paid seat in row 6! How does that work?

The seat was not comfortable. 1D. My back was sore all night and the next day.

One of the best airlines for fast boarding, on time arrivals, and top notch service!

Terrible. Even though there’s assigned seating now, they are still the slowest boarding airline of anyone.

It was good from LAX to Phoenix, But the connection in Phoenix to Tulsa was not that great. The staff on both flights were great. The choice of free entertainment was ok nothing to brag about. The 45 min delay because of some electrical issue wasn't great from Phoenix to Tulsa. We sat there with hardly any air, The seat I had was between windows so the side of the plane pushed in on you. My being a bigger man it then made the seating area uncomfortable. The seats on the plane had no power to connect to recharge your phone or anything. I would recommend that they should look into a slot or clamp to hold your phone to enjoy while watching the entertainment choices hands-free. Also make it possible to raise the inner seat by the window be able to raise the arm rest up to make more room for larger people to set more comfortably. I would also say other then that stop price gouging the airfare or nickel and diming everything. Not fair for people having to fly for emergencies and be paying for higher prices due to the season or holidays. Your making your money either way and the cost of flying is still going to be the same regardless if there's 100 people or 200 people.

I elected to pay for the upgrades and found very little difference

The new seating arrangement is so over priced for what you get.

Snacks are always pretzels. Why can't you also offer peanuts ?

Flight boarded late after announcing on time boarding. Flight arrived only a little late despite late departure. Had trouble connecting to WiFi

Flight was hours late, unable to sit next to spouse, I have had so much better experiences. Substantially better, only saving grace was that it was a short flight.

While they turned off most cabin lights to allow people to sleep, I was bothered by how bright the side lights still were. It was still quite bright for me in a window seat, when I wish I could have slept!

Generally on time departures and arrivals, clean planes, sky miles membership provides great benefits (complimentary upgrades, etc).

N Everything was perfect from boarding to assistance to baggage in Tampa

Loved the crew! Sucks that we went from 1 hour and 8 minute layover to a 3 hour layover. But weather sucks like that.

Fast, lovely scenery, great info on the Delta flight screen about landmarks we were flying over. Great landing!

Long flight but comfortable and not freezing as I have experienced on Hawaiian flights to the islands. They gave us blankets just in case. Nice touch.

I took seat 15A in anticipation of window seat, there is no window.

Smaller plane for a longer flight than my first one. Doesn’t make sense.

Flight late, the waited for a long time for “personal” to arrive at gate to dock the plane in Rochester. So annoying. This flight was expected, why aren’t personel available for the jet bridge?

My recent experience was excellent on Delta! I flew with Delta Comfort and I was really comfortable in my seat. I enjoyed the in-flight service. The flight attendants were so friendly and hospitable. I love the snack on the flight as well. This was my first time flying on Delta and I will definitely consider flying with them again.

Food was surprisingly delicious. Space in the seat is horrible when the seating front is reclined. Movie offerings were terrible. Crew was friendly and helpful.

Overall flight was ok. Flight attendant was receptive to assisting passengers with tight connections.

This was the first flight in the morning. We boarded fine. The cabin door was closed and we were ready to go. We were notified by the Captain that ATC issued and ground stop for 40 minutes. So, without even pushing back from the gate, we were already 40 minutes late. We actually were released to push-back and taxi at 30 minutes. But, some passengers had tight connections and were not going to make their connections. Some passengers asked about the delay and the effect on the connections and were told by the cabin attendant that all flights will be delayed and so they should be OK. However, that was not true. My connecting flight was on time and I arrived at IAH with 21 minutes to make my connection. I did and I'm happy about that, but the flight crew should not have given assurances to the passengers who might have missed their connections.

Boarding was again a "free for all". We were boarding group 4, and almost the entire plane was able to board before us. It's a shame that someone who follows the rules, gets the short end of the stick. Not fair.

Fine. The issues I had were associated with luggage being delayed from Turkey to Tanzania

We purchase first class seats for the first time for multiples of standard economy ticket. There was no access to the club lounge and no priority boarding. The meal and the service once on the plane were superior and the seat was nicer, but not worth the price difference. I will be happy to seat in economy and spend the difference on more travel.

The business class seat is exceptional. I wish the food is more palatable.

My flight was canceled a few hours before boarding. I was rebooked on Copa airlines and missed an important meeting .

Business class seats felt very cramped compared to other airlines.

OK, we were delayed and had to de plane and reboard.

We were delayed and the bag charge fees are very expensive.

My flight was delayed by over an hour and the turbulance was horrible.

I was double booked for my ticket- they have record of it and admitted to their error but wouldn’t let me board until I paid once again for the fare- have documentation of their mistake -

They cancelled the flight due to crew unavailability. The next day they cancelled the flight again.

For the price of the fare, there really isn’t much to complain about.

A Spirit agent caused me to miss my flight. The company has not responded for request of refund. Stay away from Spirit.

I arrived two hours early, and at 9:20 I was still queuing for security.

Got to LAX at 3:20 am, the counter personnel did not start to check in bags till 3:40 am. I patiently waited at the priority check in line as they started to take people from the general line. After about 15 minutes of waiting, I approached the lady exactly in front of the priority line and asked her if they would be taking people from the priority line or if I would need to switch to waiting in the general line. She responded “yes”, I then asked her yes to what? And she yelled back at me loudly “I SAID YES!” Needless to say, I waited at the end of the line of the general line. I could have been told the priority line would not be called upon and could have queued in the general line ahead of many people that arrived to cue after I did

Terrible they canceled the flight very sheepishly and ended up costing me 1200 dollars and kayak and xcover are doing nothing

No free snacks or drinks. Freezing. Uncomfortable. No plugs or entertainment. If you fly to LA the make you change terminals with a slow bus. Awful trip that took forever. Terrible airline- maybe the worst I’ve ever flown.

They didn’t offer a water, even after I asked

Remind customers of the need to have passport or new ID for boarding.

The flight never took off and we spent 7 hours at the airport

It was ok. It was expensive to check 2 bags ($75.00 per bag), and then it took a long time to wait for shuttle to take us from one terminal to the terminal where the plane was taking off at LAX. And all of this for a flight where we had to pay for any food or drink that was not water.

When I wanted to check in 3 hours prior to boarding time, the employees mentioned “a little over an hour delay” so I waited for an hour then I went to go look for food in the terminal and most people from that flight were in the same area looking for food. Finally I decided after food to check to see if it’s anytime closer and now it’s 2 mins until boarding closes?! What are you kidding me? I didn’t receive anything via sms about boarding now nor via email or on the intercom. I luckily made it through, barely, and then there’s no room for my carry on mind you I’m in the very first row so I had to place my purse in one further row back and my carry on sections down. Not sure who pays for better seats to get your stuff placed all over the plane but that was the worst experience I’ve ever had flying with anyone.

This airline sucks. They offer low rates then charge you for everything, the app does not work well, the seats are the most uncomfortable. Maintenance issues on the flight, and you still have to sit through their credit card commercials. People are nice enough but does not make up for overall poor experience.

baggage clamed had to wait over a hour and half for all people on my flight it was terrible

My flight was canceled I was promised a reginf still not received.

The confirmation # CK8GNW and my name was not recognized/in Frontier system. I was able to check in on Frintier app so i went to the Frontier ticket agent, at time they told me that my name/ confirmation did not show up as a purchased ticket. I had to purchase a new ticket that cost $289.00 one way.

Cancelled flight after I arrived at airport after 75 min drive and parking. Next flight was 4 days in the future. Had to scramble and buy a much more expensive flight on another carrier.

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