The planned flight path of Oceanic 815 was from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California. The major international airports of those cities are Sydney's Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD/YSSY) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX/KLAX). In "Tabula Rasa", Sayid comments on the flight path: SAYID: Two days ago we take off from Sydney. We fly along the same north east route every commercial airliner bound for Los Angeles does. Most of what we know about the flight path of Oceanic 815 is from the dialog of the pilot in Pilot.