Los Angeles → Taipei flights

Target $390–$392 for LAX–Taipei; under $350 is a real deal

Key takeaways

• Median fare is $392 across 30 daily cached-fare snapshots — a reliable anchor for budgeting.
• Bottom quartile tops out at $391, meaning fares at or below that level represent genuinely below-typical pricing.
• The floor was $319 — about 19% below median — so meaningful discounts do appear, but they're not the norm.
• Top quartile begins at $432, and the ceiling hit $500, a 57% spread that signals this route has real volatility worth monitoring.
• No dominant carrier emerged from this dataset, so comparing multiple airlines at booking time is worth the extra two minutes.

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the LAX → TPE price history page.

The full picture

The LAX–Taipei route shows a median fare of $392, with the middle 50% of observed prices sitting in a relatively tight $391–$432 band. That compressed interquartile range tells you that on most days you check, you'll land somewhere in that zone — and anything at or below $391 puts you in the cheaper half of the market. The $319 floor is real but episodic; it appeared in the data, but its rarity means you shouldn't build a travel plan around catching it.

With a 57% spread between the observed low and high, this route has enough price volatility to reward flexibility and patience. Transatlantic and transpacific routes typically see fares soften in the 6–10 week booking window before departure, as airlines release promotional inventory to fill unsold seats. That said, very close-in bookings (under two weeks) tend to push back toward the upper range. If your travel dates allow a few weeks of lead time, checking fares daily when you're in that 6–10 week window is a reasonable strategy for a route with this level of spread.

No single carrier dominated the low-fare observations in this dataset, which is actually useful information: it suggests you should run comparisons across all airlines serving the route (typically including carriers like EVA Air, China Airlines, and others with LAX–TPE nonstops or connections) rather than defaulting to one brand. One honest caveat: 30 snapshots capture a slice of market conditions, not a full seasonal cycle. Fares around peak travel periods — major holidays, summer, Lunar New Year — can push well beyond the $500 ceiling seen here, so this data is most applicable to off-peak or shoulder travel planning.

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