A330 vs B777 at LAX

A quick note today, inspired by some recent comments about Airbuses and Boeings at LAX. While it seems like we're getting more A330s lately, there are five carriers at present bringing A330s into LAX on a regular basis:

• Aeroflot
• Air Berlin
• China Eastern
• Fiji
• Hawaiian

The newest of these is China Eastern, who just started bringing A330s to LAX earlier this summer. Hawaiian is by far the most prolific A330 operator at LAX. The others each have one or two flights per day apiece. We also have several more occasional A330 operators at LAX:

• Air Canada
• Delta
• Korean
• Qantas

The above are all passenger airlines; we do not currently have any cargo operators using A330s at LAX. Nearly all A330 operations at LAX are in the -200 model; we don't have any regular flights utilizing the longer -300. However, Air Canada, Aeroflot, and Delta have been known to bring them in from time to time.

Meanwhile, the list of B777-200 operators at LAX is twice as long:

• Asiana
• Air France
• Air New Zealand
• All Nippon
• Alitalia
• American
• Delta
• El Al
• Thai
• TransAero 
• United

If we include operators of the longer -300 model, we get an even longer list:

• Air China
• Air France
• Air New Zealand
• All Nippon
• American
• Cathay Pacific
• EVA
• Japan Air
• Korean
• Philippines
• Saudia
• Thai
• TransAero
• Turkish
• Virgin Australia

About -ER and -LR models: to ATC at LAX they are essentially the same as their parent model, because for simplicity's sake we treat all B777s as if they are the -ER/-LR version. Most of the B777s we get at LAX are in fact -ER or -LR versions of their respective models; we don't gain any operational advantage from the occasional short wing variants that may pass through. In addition to the passenger carriers already listed, we do have several cargo operators using B777s at LAX:

• AeroLogic  (callsign German Cargo)
• China Cargo  (callsign Cargo King)
• China Southern
• Fedex
• Southern Air