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Cheap flight deals from San Diego to Albuquerque (SAN-ABQ)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from San Diego to Albuquerque 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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11:13 am - 9:42 pmSAN-ABQ
9h 29m1 stop
9:07 pm - 11:53 pmABQ-SAN
3h 46m1 stop
$91Spirit Airlines
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Wed, May 15 - Sat, May 18
6:26 pm - 7:48 amSAN-ABQ
12h 22m1 stop
10:32 pm - 9:14 amABQ-SAN
11h 42m1 stop
$92Spirit Airlines
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Tue, May 7 - Wed, May 8
12:45 pm - 5:48 pmSAN-ABQ
4h 03m1 stop
6:20 am - 8:59 amABQ-SAN
3h 39m1 stop
$304American Airlines
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Thu, May 16 - Sun, May 19
7:58 pm - 7:48 amSAN-ABQ
10h 50m1 stop
9:07 pm - 4:22 pmABQ-SAN
20h 15m2 stops
Fri, May 17 - Sun, May 19
8:35 pm - 8:03 pmSAN-ABQ
22h 28m3 stops
7:00 am - 5:52 pmABQ-SAN
11h 52m2 stops
$445United Airlines
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Tue, Jun 4 - Tue, Jun 11
8:59 am - 8:17 pmSAN-ABQ
34h 18m3 stops
9:07 pm - 4:22 pmABQ-SAN
20h 15m2 stops
Fri, May 17 - Sun, May 19
6:10 pm - 10:54 pmSAN-ABQ
3h 44m1 stop
5:20 am - 9:04 amABQ-SAN
4h 44m1 stop
$597Delta
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Sat, May 25 - Wed, May 29
6:20 am - 5:14 pmSAN-ABQ
9h 54m2 stops
7:00 am - 12:46 pmABQ-SAN
6h 46m1 stop
$613United Airlines
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Sat, May 11 - Tue, May 14
4:20 pm - 11:30 pmSAN-ABQ
6h 10m2 stops
12:27 pm - 9:50 pmABQ-SAN
10h 23m2 stops
$886American Airlines
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Mon, Jun 17 - Sat, Jun 22
6:15 am - 5:37 pmSAN-ABQ
10h 22m2 stops
11:44 am - 10:56 pmABQ-SAN
12h 12m2 stops
$2,602Delta
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Fri, May 24 - Mon, May 27

Flights from San Diego to Albuquerque - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from San Diego to Albuquerque 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 San Diego to Albuquerque?

The average price of all flights from San Diego to Albuquerque clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to Albuquerque on a Tuesday and more expensive on a Sunday. On your return trip to San Diego, you should consider flying back on a Monday, and avoid Saturdays for better deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Diego to Albuquerque?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from San Diego to Albuquerque, 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 San Diego to Albuquerque is January, where tickets cost $236 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are November and June, where the average cost of tickets is $393 and $391 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Diego to Albuquerque?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from San Diego to Albuquerque, 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 San Diego to Albuquerque, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 81 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from San Diego to Albuquerque?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
The cheapest return flight ticket from San Diego to Albuquerque found by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours was for $91 on Spirit Airlines, followed by American Airlines ($304). One-way flight deals have also been found from as low as $46 on Spirit Airlines and from $276 on Alaska Airlines.

How many flights are there between San Diego and Albuquerque per day?

Each day, there are between 1 and 4 nonstop flights that take off from San Diego and land in Albuquerque, with an average flight time of 1h 49m. The most common departure time is 9:00 am and most flights take off in the morning. Each week, there are 15 flights. The most frequent day of departure is Sunday, when 27% of all weekly flights depart. The fewest flights depart on a Saturday.

What’s the earliest departure time from San Diego to Albuquerque?

Early birds can take the earliest flight from San Diego at 7:30 am and will be landing in Albuquerque at 10:15 am.

What’s the latest departure time from San Diego to Albuquerque?

If you prefer to fly at night, the latest flight from San Diego to Albuquerque jets off at 8:10 pm and lands at 11:00 pm.

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Low season

August

High season

October

Cheapest flight

$46
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 San Diego to Albuquerque

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Diego to Albuquerque 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 flights from San Diego to Albuquerque

  • Which means of transport is suitable for those planning to explore Albuquerque?

    If you plan on exploring Albuquerque, renting a car is the most convenient means of transport. You will find various car rental providers at Albuquerque international airport, including ACE, Alamo, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, National, Payless, Thrifty, and SIXT. The car rental facility is located outside the airport grounds at the Sunport Car Center. The companies offer complimentary shuttle services from the airport to the center.

  • Where can you relax on arrival at Albuquerque International Airport?

    You can relax at the observation deck if you have extra time at Albuquerque International Airport. The terrace offers views of planes landing and taking off. It is located between Gates A19 and B1 on the airside. You can also participate in the airport group tours and learn more about the history of Albuquerque International Airport. Additionally, art enthusiasts should roam around the airport and see the permanent art exhibits on display throughout the airport terminals.

  • Where can I stay near the departure airport?

    Those willing to spend extra money can consider staying in a hotel near San Diego International Airport before departure. Hotels near the airport that offer complimentary shuttle services include Holiday Inn Express San Diego Hotel and Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina.

  • Which lounge is ideal for holding meetings at San Diego International Airport?

    If you are planning a meeting at San Diego International Airport, you can take advantage of the conference facilities available at United Club. In addition to conference facilities, the club offers internet, fax, newspapers, magazines, television, and flight information monitors. To access the lounge, you should be a United Club member. The lounge is located between Gates 47 and 48, airside of the mezzanine level in Terminal 2.

  • What is the cheapest flight from San Diego to Albuquerque?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Diego to Albuquerque was $46 for a one-way ticket and $91 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between San Diego and Albuquerque?

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

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San Diego to Albuquerque?

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

  • On which days can I fly direct from San Diego to Albuquerque?

    There are nonstop flights from San Diego to Albuquerque on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San Diego to Albuquerque, Delta or United Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Diego to Albuquerque are Delta and United Airlines. With an average price for the route of $376 and an overall rating of 8.0, Delta is the most popular choice. United Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $346 and an overall rating of 7.4.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Diego to Albuquerque?

    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 San Diego to Albuquerque.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Albuquerque from San Diego 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 San Diego to Albuquerque?

    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 Albuquerque with an airline and back to San Diego with another airline. Booking your flights between San Diego and ABQ 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 San Diego to Albuquerque?

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

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Top tips for finding a cheap flight from SAN to Albuquerque

  • If you plan to spend the night at San Diego International Airport (SAN) for your early morning flight, ensure you bring a sleeping bag since most seats have armrests. Those on the land side should consider sleeping at the northwest corner of the check-in area in Terminal 2. Additionally, you will find armrest-free seats in the baggage claim area.
  • You can hire a luggage cart from Smarte Carte at SAN if you need help moving your bulky bags. They provide these services near the baggage claim area, terminal entrance doors, the upper-level curbside check-in area of Terminal 2, and the parking lots.
  • For relaxation, visit the Be Relax Spa at Gates 26 and 36 airside Terminals 2. The spa offers massages, pedicures, manicures, facials, and hair coloring. In addition, passengers who want to refresh can use the showers available at the Airspace Lounge.
  • If you are feeling hungry at Albuquerque International Airport (ABQ), you will find numerous food concessions operating throughout the airport. These concessions include Black Mesa Coffee and Bakery, Panda Express, Route 66 Lounge, Sports Lounge & Grill, Schlotzky’s, and Tia’s Pronto.
  • Those with service animals at Albuquerque international airport can take them for a break at the pet relief areas. In addition, the airport has an indoor pet relief area located at Gate A7.
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Prefer to fly non-stop from San Diego to Albuquerque?

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Top 4 airlines serving from San Diego to Albuquerque

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Diego to Albuquerque. 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.
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DeltaOverall score based on 10966 reviews
8.2boarding
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7.9comfort
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8.0entertainment
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There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

6.0 GoodEliza, Apr 2024SAN - LAX
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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.

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.

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

Like most domestic flights in the US, you are basically on your own with this airline when it comes to food, so be sure to purchase meals and drinks ahead of time or expect to arrive starving and dehydrated (like I was).

You need to be a hacker to get the (Free) WiFi

I guess they don’t serve drinks on planes anymore

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.

For a 22 minute flight all you expect is for it to be safe and comfortable

Flight was on time. Staff were friendly. I paid for Economy Plus but was required to check my standard carry-on luggage due to lack of space on the aircraft. This cost me 30 minutes, unexpectedly, in waiting at the baggage claim. This experience did not meet my expectations.

Wouldn’t let me check in said couldn’t find a ticket had to wait very long Time

The experience was great and much better than the flight going out. of course I was in first class but the service was excellent

Comfort of seats, ease of boarding. Food selection could be better

Food options were limited which is absolutely embarrassing for a Flight of this size The staff did not come around as much and I am not accustomed to such poor service from American Airlines Drinks I believe were limited to soda and water

Crew were attentive and friendly. Flight was smooth and early! I enjoyed the less crowded plane. Thank you!

Re-checking our bags, the workers were not able to help us with boarding passes for the flight, told us to wait, then ignored us while they helped many other passengers. Until I got rude, they would have left us standing there, and even then they were very curt and dismissive in telling us where to get boarding passes printed. We made it to the gate just as they were starting to board passengers. It was just rude customer service.

We are gluten free, there were not any available complimentary gluten free options.

No meal on a cross country flight? SFO-MiA is pretty much the definition of a coast to coast flight. No meal provided. Sky high wi-fi rates too. Stop nickel and diming your customers.

The staff was unprofessional and didn’t communicate very well. The boarding process was very disheveled, potentially due to a power outage the previous day but there was no contingency plan to properly get passengers boarded the following day. Once boarded the aircraft stayed on the tarmac for over 45 minutes due to high winds. The communication was sporadic but an announcement was finally made an additional 30 minutes later that the flight was cancelled but we couldn’t get off the plane. Prior to deplaning one of the gate agents came on the plane and made an announcement for everyone to pickup their checked bags and take a card to rebook a new reservation because they didn’t have adequate staff. Flights were missed, passengers went to different airports and there was little to no assistance from AA.

Apart from the delay due to unforeseen circumstances. The leg from sjc to dfw was fine. It was the leg from dfw to orf that we encountered issues mainly due to the flight attendant crew not being friendly. We had two small children and we needed some assistance to warm up milk so the baby would sleep. The crew just didn’t get it and made things very difficult. One made a remark that the baby’s dirty diaper smell was a “gift” to the plane in a rude way. Normally I’d brush that off as a funny comment if the rest of the trip the attendants were helpful or understanding of the difficulty we faced. But that wasn’t the case. We were met with rudeness on the second leg. Whereas on the first leg the crew were so nice and helpful.

Flight From PHX to CVG was on time, very professional staff

There was a .79 discrepancy between the cost of the flight and what was paid. Spirit didn't let me obtain my boarding pass until the .79 (seventy nine cents) was paid. Contacting their customer service to resolve the issue was a nightmare that involved many wait minutes and two different departments. The price Kayak gave to Affirm, whom I used to pay for the tickets, and the price Spirit charged for the flight were off by the .79. I almost lost the ticket because of the hassle.

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

It wasn’t as horrible as I would have expected, however, to not provide water and change so much for bags is a ripoff to say the least.

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from San Diego to Albuquerque found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
6/4Tue
1 stopSpirit Airlines
9h 27mSAN-ABQ
$46
5/15Wed
2 stopsSpirit Airlines
14h 27mSAN-ABQ
$66
6/1Sat
1 stopSpirit Airlines
11h 32mSAN-ABQ
$78
5/31Fri
1 stopSpirit Airlines
10h 50mSAN-ABQ
$97
6/4Tue
2 stopsAlaska Airlines
8h 34mSAN-ABQ
$276
6/4Tue
2 stopsUnited Airlines
22h 28mSAN-ABQ
$299
6/17Mon
1 stopDelta
5h 06mSAN-ABQ
$302
6/4Tue
3 stopsUnited Airlines
12h 48mSAN-ABQ
$373
5/24Fri
2 stopsAlaska Airlines
15h 37mSAN-ABQ
$425
6/27Thu
3 stopsAmerican Airlines
15h 13mSAN-ABQ
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