$74 Find Cheap Flights from Los Angeles to Houston

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Cheapest round-trip
$137
Overall average: $200
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LAX - IAH • Non-stop
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Typical prices: $88-$198
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Thu 4/9
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

Sat, Apr 18 - Mon, Apr 20
Spirit Airlines Logo
5:30 am - 10:34 am
LAX
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IAH
3h 04mnonstop
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10:15 pm - 11:53 pm
IAH
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LAX
3h 38mnonstop
$137Spirit Airlines
Thu, Apr 16 - Sat, Apr 18
Frontier Logo
1:25 pm - 7:00 pm
LAX
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IAH
3h 35mnonstop
Frontier Logo
9:33 am - 11:24 am
IAH
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LAX
3h 51mnonstop
$138Frontier
Tue, May 5 - Fri, May 8
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9:46 am - 3:12 pm
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IAH
3h 26mnonstop
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10:15 pm - 11:53 pm
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LAX
3h 38mnonstop
$139Multiple Airlines
Sat, Apr 25 - Sat, May 2
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5:30 am - 10:34 am
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IAH
3h 04mnonstop
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1:07 pm - 10:30 pm
IAH
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LAX
11h 23m
1 stop
$140Spirit Airlines
Wed, Apr 8 - Wed, Apr 15
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11:50 am - 5:19 pm
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IAH
3h 29mnonstop
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3:32 pm - 11:14 pm
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LAX
9h 42m
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$142Frontier
Wed, May 6 - Sun, May 10
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5:30 am - 10:34 am
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3h 04mnonstop
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9:33 am - 11:24 am
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$143Multiple Airlines
Sat, Apr 25 - Sun, May 3
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12:39 pm - 6:02 pm
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3h 23mnonstop
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10:49 am - 12:41 pm
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$144Frontier
Tue, May 5 - Tue, May 12
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3h 26mnonstop
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12:06 pm - 9:25 pm
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11h 19m
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$145Frontier
Sat, May 2 - Tue, May 5
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11:30 am - 4:40 pm
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HOU
3h 10mnonstop
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2:45 pm - 4:20 pm
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3h 35mnonstop
$197Southwest
Sat, Apr 25 - Sun, May 3
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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.

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 $147 on the route between Los Angeles (LAX) and Houston George Bush Intcntl Airport (IAH). Over the past month, this route was, on average, 30% 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 Mondays 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 August, where tickets cost $179 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are March and November, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $297 and $257 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 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 38% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 11 weeks before departure.

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Cheapest flight$74
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 $74 for a one-way ticket and $137 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.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Los Angeles to Houston? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
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SouthwestOverall score based on 4318 reviews
7.0Food
8.1Boarding
7.5Entertainment
8.6Crew
8.0Comfort
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I elected to pay for the upgrades and found very little difference

6.0 GoodChris, Mar 2026
DAL - SAT
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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.

An entire day of delays. Cost lots of money. Meals and a hotel.

Only downside was the legroom and seat width, which is always a problem unless I spend more for a premium seat.

Great flight but super high price. Glad it was a business trip and not personal

On time. Friendly staff. Took to long to pre bord all the specialty groups. Cramped small plane

The lead steward kept singing about "San Francisco" and hotel California---more annoying than humorous....needs work. Flight was smooth and on time.

Another late night flight and MORE men belligerently drinking and yelling. I had to move from first to economy because they were so obnoxious and disruptive. Crazy to go from a cozy chair to cardboard when you were supposed to be in first. Delta allows was too much drinking which leads to belligerent behavior.

I was in first class and literally the men behind me were so aggressively loud I moved myself to economy. This has become so common on Delta - people using audio without headphones, and men on 12am / late night flights drinking and yelling to talk to each other which prevents anyone around them from resting. Pretty crazy to have to move from first to economy (poorer service, less comfort...). Wild wild. Looking into other airlines.

Flight was delayed by 3-hours and their fix was… complimentary pretzels.

The crew, and fellow passengers, were super gracious and kind. There seemed to be plenty of bin space even though the plane was full. It’s nice to get a glass of wine with dinner in Premiere seating, and there was a lot of food.

Delta flights recently are always delayed AND at jfk tney get the gates further away (need To walk 20’ to get to them/all the way at the end of the terminal). Not sure whats happening but price doesnt match experience!

Everything I mentioned earlier - the airbus was more comfortable indeed and the experience was further enhanced.

The plane was an older model, so it wasn’t as comfortable as others. The flight attendants were not helpful during onboarding. It was a full flight so there was chaos finding space for baggage.

Awesome! On time flight, early arrival, and a complimentary upgrade!

Only freetext wifi was available in flight; browsing WiFi required payment. Since the seats had no in flight entertainment, Delta should revisit this policy on this longer flight.

Delta One is extraordinary. I fly business when somebody hires me. I just wonder why there is such a chasm between business class and the insanely inhumane and nonsensical coach. The seats are not large enough to fit even my tiny wife. We fly 10% of what we did because we don’t want to pay 5-10 k but for $400 it’s unbearable. It seems like the accountants took over and made stupid decisions. Screw in 20 extra seats and make it so unbearable that people fly 90% less. Just put the damn price up and put some proper chairs in. But business, yay.

Everything was on time and service on the flight was great!

The travel company that you have on your site did me so wrong. I don’t know how it happened, but they put my son‘s name on my plane ticket flying to Vietnam. Along with his birthday. They would not have let me fly from Fort Myers to Ho Chi Minh City. I don’t think that I can ever use your service again. I typed my information into the browser along with my passport number and four days before I’m leaving I have to quickly search another ticket to fly out here.

Good flight. Efficient boarding and competent flight crew. No problems until we arrived at our destination gate. We were early so there was an aircraft at the gate that had to move before we could pull in. Then, due to the type of aircraft we flew, the cabin door could not be opened until some luggage from the cargo bay was offloaded to preserve center of gravity characteristics. So, that further delayed deplaning. Despite being 20 minutes early on landing, we ended up being 5 to 10 minutes late after all the delays.

This trip did not start off well. The inbound flight was delayed about 20 minutes. Then, after initial onboarding, the passengers had to deplane due to a mechanical problem. That took about 30 minutes to fix and be cleared. Then, reboarding was chaotic. It took a long time to sort passengers and two passengers on standby were ticketed but there was no seat. So, they had to deplane. One of the flight crew was trying to help passengers figure out a place to put their carry-on bags and that took more time. In the end, our scheduled 10:30 am departure did not actually take off until about 12:05 pm CST. The flight itself was long but we got to Houston. Some passengers missed their connecting flights and had to rebook. Not the best of flights I've had.

Complimentary light meal would be appreciated. But great flight crew service on all legs

Everything was great except for the boarding process. Everyone is lining up all at the same time and it’s hard to tell between the groups as they are way too large.

Very old flight - time to retire it for newer airplanes

Do not like the size of the overhead bin. I think staff should monitor the size of suitcases that are being carried on by passengers to ensure they meet the size requirement.

Crew was great (professional, attentive, prompt). Snacks for 4 hrs flight is deplorable.

Check-in and in-flight staff were better than average. The seat was a fair size but too hard and not enough padding. The cushion/pillow provided is poor (thin and seems to be disposable ,it provides no effective cushioning or support). Food was OK-ish but no choice of inflight snacks and no easy place to get drinks other than water (I could ask for juice by intruding into the staff area at the back of the plane) Entertainment was very good actually. Overall better than I expected from a US-based airline (sorry!) but compared to ANA or Singapore it was so-so. (I live in Japan so they are my comparative airlines)

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.

Crew are always very angry and dismissive like they seem they are being forced to work. In addition, there was a long line for the bathrooms, and only one was allowed to be used. No reason was given for only one bathroom being available; apparently, the stewardess was more interested in using the jumpseat instead of allowing the customers to use the bathroom.

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.

I liked the turn-style feature at gate 209B at LAX. Very efficient process. The gate staff also made several, clearly directed announcements so I felt very informed.

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