JL15 Flight Status: Los Angeles to Tokyo

JL15 distance and great-circle path

JL15 covers 8,813 km, or 5,476 miles. That makes it a long-haul flight, a widebody route with a full night's flying time. Of the 271 routes we track, it ranks 97 by distance.

Los Angeles to Tokyo crosses the international date line. The 8,813 km track runs north-west, and the calendar date at the gate in Tokyo will not be the one the cabin expects. It links United States with Japan.

Our guide explains how the LAX-HND route appears on a tracker map.

What to know about JL15

• Time change: you land 16 hours ahead of the time you left. That is enough to cause jet lag. Here is how pilots handle it.
• Crosses the date line: the calendar date changes while you are in the air.

What flying LAX to HND takes

It is a long-haul sector, a widebody route with a full night's flying time. Japan Airlines needs a widebody twinjet: the sector needs long-range tanks and a cabin crew rest provision, which rules out most single-aisle types. Westbound, this route pushes into the prevailing winds aloft, which is why the eastbound leg is normally the quicker one. In daylight the sun sits on the left (south-facing) side of the cabin for most of the crossing.

How we verified this

The origin and destination on this page are the ones we verified for callsign JAL15 through adsbdb, not a schedule copied from elsewhere. We have logged it airborne on 6 days between 2026-09-19 and 2026-09-24. Timings are observations, not an official operational status: always confirm with the airline before travelling.

This page was published from our own tracking record rather than a third-party schedule feed, so it grows as we see the flight again. The seven-day log below is the raw version of the same evidence.

We track 3 scheduled services between Los Angeles and Tokyo, split between All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines. It sits in the middle of the pack on both departure time and scheduled duration.

Measured against JL15:

• NH106 (All Nippon Airways) runs the same pairing, on a Boeing 787-10.
• JL62 (Japan Airlines) runs the same pairing, on a Boeing 787-9.

Block time is gate to gate, so it counts taxi at both ends. That is why two flights covering identical distance rarely share a scheduled duration.

Our database contains 6 observations of JL15 across 6 UTC dates in this window, most recently 2026-09-24. Those records contain 4 distinct transponder addresses. The most frequently resolved route was LAX-HND (6 records).

The median recorded visibility was 486 minutes. That is time inside receiver coverage, not airborne duration or an on-time-performance measurement.