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Find cheap flights from Oakland to Columbus from $68

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Oakland to Columbus departing on 5/30. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
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These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from Oakland to Columbus, as well as popular online travel agencies
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Cheap flight deals from Oakland to Columbus (OAK-CMH)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Oakland to Columbus 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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12:02 pm - 5:55 amOAK-CMH
14h 53m1 stop
2:10 pm - 12:50 amCMH-OAK
13h 40m1 stop
$146Spirit Airlines
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Wed, May 29 - Tue, Jun 4
12:02 pm - 6:05 amOAK-CMH
15h 03m2 stops
3:36 pm - 9:40 pmCMH-OAK
9h 04m1 stop
$149Spirit Airlines
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Wed, Jun 5 - Wed, Jun 12
1:15 pm - 6:05 amOAK-CMH
13h 50m1 stop
3:36 pm - 9:40 pmCMH-OAK
9h 04m1 stop
$151Spirit Airlines
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Wed, Jun 5 - Wed, Jun 12
10:00 am - 5:55 amOAK-CMH
16h 55m2 stops
2:10 pm - 12:50 amCMH-OAK
13h 40m1 stop
$159Spirit Airlines
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Wed, May 29 - Tue, Jun 4
12:02 pm - 5:55 amOAK-CMH
14h 53m1 stop
2:10 pm - 11:02 pmCMH-OAK
11h 52m1 stop
$168Spirit Airlines
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Mon, May 27 - Wed, May 29
12:02 pm - 5:55 amOAK-CMH
14h 53m1 stop
2:10 pm - 7:18 pmCMH-OAK
8h 08m1 stop
$173Spirit Airlines
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Mon, May 27 - Thu, May 30
8:10 pm - 1:05 pmOAK-CMH
13h 55m1 stop
3:31 pm - 12:45 amCMH-OAK
12h 14m1 stop
$174Spirit Airlines
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Thu, May 30 - Mon, Jun 3
11:59 pm - 7:20 pmOAK-CMH
16h 21m1 stop
2:10 pm - 11:55 pmCMH-OAK
12h 45m2 stops
Sun, May 26 - Sat, Jun 1
7:59 pm - 2:36 pmOAK-CMH
15h 37m1 stop
3:36 pm - 11:47 pmCMH-OAK
11h 11m1 stop
$183Spirit Airlines
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Sun, Jun 9 - Tue, Jun 11
6:15 pm - 12:33 pmOAK-CMH
15h 18m1 stop
8:30 pm - 10:53 pmCMH-OAK
29h 23m1 stop
$245Sun Country Air
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Thu, Jun 27 - Tue, Jul 2

Flights from Oakland to Columbus - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Oakland to Columbus to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Oakland to Columbus?

The average price of all flights from Oakland, California to Columbus Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to Columbus on a Sunday and more expensive on a Saturday. On your return trip to Oakland, you should consider flying back on a Thursday, and avoid Sundays for better deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Oakland, California to Columbus Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from Oakland, California to Columbus Airport, 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 Oakland, California to Columbus Airport is January, where tickets cost $347 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and May, where the average cost of tickets is $536 and $512 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Oakland, California to Columbus Airport?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from Oakland, California to Columbus Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price on the flight from Oakland, California to Columbus Airport, you should book around 2 days before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 23 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from Oakland to Columbus?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
In the last 72 hours, the best return deals on flights connecting Oakland to Columbus were found on Spirit Airlines ($146) and Sun Country Air ($245). Spirit Airlines proposed the cheapest one-way flight at $68.

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Low season

January

High season

June

Cheapest flight

$68
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 1% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 7% increase in price.
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When to book flights from Oakland to Columbus

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Oakland to Columbus 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 Oakland to Columbus flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Oakland, California to Columbus Airport?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Oakland, California to Columbus Airport was $68 for a one-way ticket and $146 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Oakland and Columbus?

    No, a passport isn't needed to fly from Oakland to Columbus. However, local authorities might ask for an official ID.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Oakland to Columbus?

    On your way to Columbus, you’ll fly out from Oakland. You’ll be landing at Columbus.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Oakland to Columbus?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Oakland to Columbus?

    oneworld, and SkyTeam are the airline alliances operating flights between Oakland and Columbus, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Oakland to Columbus, Delta or Alaska Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Oakland to Columbus are Delta and Alaska Airlines. With an average price for the route of $339 and an overall rating of 8.0, Delta is the most popular choice. Alaska Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $521 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Oakland to Columbus?

    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 Oakland to Columbus.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Oakland to Columbus?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Columbus from Oakland 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 Oakland to Columbus?

    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 Columbus with an airline and back to Oakland with another airline. Booking your flights between Oakland and CMH can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Oakland to Columbus?

    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 Columbus from Oakland up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top 4 airlines serving from Oakland to Columbus

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Oakland to Columbus. 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 Oakland to Columbus? 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.
8.0
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 9141 reviews
8.6Crew
7.3Food
7.3Entertainment
8.2Boarding
7.9Comfort
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Boarded the plain and had to wait 1 hour for crew Captain to arrive from another flight

4.0 OkayRandy, May 2024SFO - SEA
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Boarded the plain and had to wait 1 hour for crew Captain to arrive from another flight

The space for legs in coach is better than other Airlines you can even cross your legs!!

Comfortable seat, plenty of leg room which is so rare, overhead bin comfortably accommodated my carry-on bag. Deli box was tasty, service was good, bathrooms were clean. Uneventful flight, which I appreciate. Departed on time and landed early.

Honestly, there was not much they could do. Due to wind, the flight was delayed for several hours because we had to be diverted to San Jose where we needed to refuel before departing to Hawaii. Wish they had offered some snacks during the delays/diversion because we had to wait such a long time to finally get our food served during the flight after leaving California.

They canceled the flight 30 minutes prior to departure without any heads up.

All parts were excellent, especially staff at bag tag printing and inflight crew. Just the normal differences from past air travel could be improved but we’ve learned to accept those—cramped seats, minimal food/beverage, etc.

Better organizing of entry and exit onto the plane regarding all of the baggage people haul on. There should be a better system so those with no baggage can get in and out more quickly. The baggage haul-on situation is absurd.

Attentive crew. Best of all was the empty seat between me and my rowmate.

We had a very scary attempted landing in Palm Springs and were redirected to Ontario. It was a stressful flight.

Every thing means , crew, service, timing, boarding is very good.

I had a wonderful experience flying with delta. The gentleman taking care of us on our flight was so nice, accommodating, and attentive. He always was smiling and giving pins to the kids which made me smile. The flight was quick too and without turbulence. Thank you for the great flying experience.

There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

I didn’t not like that I could not select my seat and ended up with the worse seat.

The landing was bad and the hostess came two times and i was sleeping but when she served the person that nexts to me I woke up and she didn’t even asked me if I need any drink or snacks two times!!!!

Plane was late because of a mechanical malfunction and the food listed as available was not. Flight attendants seem over worked and under paid. They just done seem happy. And that can be seen in their faces.

Everything went well with the flight. But one of the flight attendants had on inappropriate pants. She had on an old worn out pair of sweat pants. The back seam was unrivaled and should not have been worn for work. If I had not seen her in the airport with the standard type of luggage, I certainly would not have thought she was working for Delta. Not a good look at all for representation.

Waited 3 hours on a plane to de-ice due to manpower issues. Waited another hour and a half once we landed because of a gate issue. Missed my connections. Created. A total of 13 hours of delay.

The plane was one hour late cause they were doing some reparations with us on the plane no mention I was in the first seat and the door was open the entire time with 8 degrees! The plane was totally dirty no mention old ! The staff was nice but no put together, the attention to details and passenger experience is missing and i always travel first !!! Is better the lounge than the plane! KLM/air France every details is taken care maybe you need a creative creator or experience client need asap was terrible and not memorable for the price that I payed very dissatisfied

Great, on time departure, friendly and accommodating crew, great leg room, Smith flight

Plane was turned around due to fog half way into the flight, Delta did not properly direct passengers to stay on same flight and instead failed to properly rebook on Alaska

I paid $380 for my one-way ticket from California to Minnesota. The fair did not include online check-in. I received instructions from their app to check in at a kiosk. At the kiosk, the boarding pass would not print until an actual person came to verify that I had a personal item and not a carry-on item, On the plane, the person next to me was drunk and allowed to continue to order alcohol. United is garbage I’d rather fly spirit.

Do not like the feeling of being in the basic economy. Everyone should feel good no matter what.

Terrible! The plane was old and you are required to connect your own device to their Wi-Fi rather than have entertainment options in the back of the seat in front of you. The Wi-Fi went out during the flight and there was only one plug for the devices every two seats. Three out of five surrounding my family did not work. The seats and spaces under them were so small I could not fit my backpack, which I’ve always brought on flights and fit before no problem. The crew were unpleasant and patronizing.

Due to one crew member not showing up to work, our flight was significantly delayed causing us to miss our connecting flight in Houston to Mississippi causing us to be delayed by more than 6 hours and missing our event all together. Very disappointing. All because ONE crew member called in sick. United did grant us a $15 meal voucher, which was a small but appreciated concession that I wasn’t able to use because I ordered my lunch and paid for it before applying the concession, and the staff said it was too late to use it. Ugh! We also had a TWO delay coming back from Mississippi, but that was on American Airlines and it was due to weather, so not their fault. Anyway, not at all impressed with United’s handling of our flight and the HUGE disappointment of missing our important family event for our 90 year old mother. All that money and all that stress and emotions for nothing. Having to wait the hour to bring an employee from LAX seemed like something that should not have happened. Why don’t you have a local back-up? Santa Ana is not a little airport in a rural area.

Crew was great and did their best to make us comfortable and captain came out at the beginning to announce why the flight was delayed, weather situation up ahead, and kept us updated throughout the flight.

United WiFi is consistently unusable (it can take 10 mins to load a single web page). If you need Wifi to do work, be prepared to lose half a day of productivity.

Awful. I got stuck next to a person carrying a dog and behind someone with a dog. People need to board these dogs downstairs. The cabin is crowded enough with your pets

Packed in like sardines, very uncomfortable. Sitting the aisle my shoulder was rammed into numerous times by rushing flight attendants. Also flight was very cold.

the head jack on my seat didn't work and the power outlet didn't work for my seat

Left 2 hours later for delayed I had to take care a kid with special need since people don’t want to move to accommodate the rest of the family. . It wasn’t bad but that made me upset that people can be that selfish.

Overall it was a miserable experience... I will never fly spirit for more than a 3 hour flight or overnight.

My wife and I are both handicapped and at boarding they upgraded us to a seat closer to the front rather than all the way towards the back. Much appreciated.

Kayak does not know that spirit airlines charged me $70 to fly. But the bag check-in was $89 each way. This is false advertising to lure people. Spirit airlines sends bunch of emails after flight purchases to buy wifi, better seats, priority boarding, secure reserved seats. This is false advertising. Up front pricing. I would of flown jet blue or Alaska airlines.

One hour late taking off. Concerning, very hard landing. Uncomfortable seats with no recline. Extremely slow baggage claim. Very professional, knowledgeable flight attendants. Brand new, very clean plane.

Can’t say there was anything I particularly liked. Seats were very tight, leather wrapped plastic. I followed up a much longer and cheaper trip from Honolulu on southwest, everything was phenomenal, this flight was the exact opposite. Blows my mind they charge for water of all things. One of the attendants seemed very rude, I watched a taller gentleman a couple rows forward with his knees pressed into the back of the seat ahead, while the woman in that seat leaned forward the entire flight, I’m sure because she could feel his knees. I’ll be avoiding spirit like the plague from here forward.

Didn’t make the connecting flight due to a delay on our first flight.

I felt scam to have to pay $50 additional for my carry on luggage which was free for my other airline.

Enjoyed the experience, on time flights, friendly staff the WiFi was intros d kept cutting out.

Awful experience. Both flights were delayed several times with weather but also crew members being the official cause. The vouchers are unusable and insufficient ($50 voucher to fly the same crappy airline is a joke for putting me on a red-eye that landed at 3:00 am). The aircrafts were old and uncomfortable (have a real pocket on the seat, for crying out loud!).

Its so random that they only allow 40 pounds on checked bags when all airlines take 55. They then charge you for each 10 extra pounds, so my checked suitcase was $130 and the flight $30 ... its like whattt, im for sure not traveling with Spirit again

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from Oakland to Columbus found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
5/30Thu
1 stopSpirit Airlines
13h 55mOAK-CMH
$68
5/31Fri
1 stopSpirit Airlines
28h 15mOAK-CMH
$85
6/4Tue
1 stopSpirit Airlines
14h 53mOAK-CMH
$87
6/6Thu
2 stops
32h 41mOAK-CMH
$99
6/30Sun
1 stopSun Country Air
15h 17mOAK-CMH
$111
6/16Sun
2 stops
33h 54mOAK-CMH
$150
5/31Fri
1 stopAlaska Airlines
8h 29mOAK-CMH
$204
6/5Wed
2 stopsAlaska Airlines
14h 09mOAK-CMH
$259
6/7Fri
2 stopsDelta
15h 09mOAK-CMH
$333
5/31Fri
2 stopsDelta
17h 21mOAK-CMH
$348

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Last minute flights from Oakland to Columbus

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from Oakland to Columbus that are departing in the next 10 days.
5/13Mon
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
13h 30mOAK-CMH
5/16Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
12h 41mCMH-OAK
$421
5/13Mon
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
15h 01mOAK-CMH
5/16Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
12h 41mCMH-OAK
$454
5/13Mon
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
15h 01mOAK-CMH
5/16Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
18h 21mCMH-OAK
$540
5/9Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
13h 55mOAK-CMH
5/17Fri
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
12h 14mCMH-OAK
$545
5/9Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
13h 55mOAK-CMH
5/17Fri
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
23h 46mCMH-OAK
$567
5/9Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
14h 53mOAK-CMH
5/14Tue
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
11h 52mCMH-OAK
$617
5/9Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
14h 53mOAK-CMH
5/14Tue
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
20h 21mCMH-OAK
$686
5/10Fri
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
13h 30mOAK-CMH
5/12Sun
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
12h 41mCMH-OAK
$769
5/9Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
21h 05mOAK-CMH
5/14Tue
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
20h 21mCMH-OAK
$834
5/9Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
21h 05mOAK-CMH
5/17Fri
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
23h 46mCMH-OAK
$844

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Oakland - Columbus Flights

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Oakland (undefined)United States

Destination:

Columbus (CMH)United States

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Columbus - Oakland

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