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Find cheap flights from John Wayne (Santa Ana) to San José from $126

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Santa Ana to San José departing on 4/19. 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 Santa Ana to San José, as well as popular online travel agencies
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Cheap flight deals from Santa Ana to San José

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Santa Ana to San José 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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3:37 pm - 8:36 amSNA-SJO
15h 59m2 stops
9:36 am - 8:36 pmSJO-SNA
12h 00m2 stops
$275Spirit Airlines
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Tue, Apr 23 - Tue, Apr 30
3:37 pm - 8:36 amSNA-SJO
15h 59m2 stops
9:36 am - 8:36 pmSJO-SNA
12h 00m2 stops
$309Spirit Airlines
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Thu, Apr 25 - Tue, Apr 30
3:37 pm - 8:36 amSNA-SJO
15h 59m2 stops
7:45 pm - 8:36 pmSJO-SNA
25h 51m3 stops
Tue, Apr 23 - Mon, Apr 29
6:45 am - 8:36 amSNA-SJO
24h 51m3 stops
7:45 pm - 8:36 pmSJO-SNA
25h 51m3 stops
Tue, Apr 23 - Mon, Apr 29
9:20 pm - 11:52 amSNA-SJO
13h 32m1 stop
7:00 am - 10:28 pmSJO-SNA
16h 28m1 stop
$502Delta
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Thu, Apr 25 - Thu, May 2
6:54 pm - 1:11 pmSNA-SJO
17h 17m1 stop
12:51 pm - 10:39 pmSJO-SNA
10h 48m1 stop
$551American Airlines
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Wed, May 22 - Fri, May 31
9:26 am - 10:29 pmSNA-SJO
12h 03m1 stop
6:00 am - 8:09 pmSJO-SNA
15h 09m1 stop
$565American Airlines
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Fri, Apr 26 - Fri, May 3
9:20 pm - 11:52 amSNA-SJO
13h 32m1 stop
7:00 am - 10:28 pmSJO-SNA
16h 28m1 stop
$587Delta
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Thu, Apr 25 - Fri, May 3
10:13 am - 12:26 pmSNA-SJO
25h 13m1 stop
1:25 pm - 9:50 amSJO-SNA
21h 25m2 stops
$628United Airlines
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Mon, Sep 23 - Thu, Sep 26
3:11 pm - 10:03 amSNA-SJO
17h 52m1 stop
11:05 am - 9:58 pmSJO-SNA
11h 53m1 stop
$664United Airlines
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Wed, Apr 17 - Tue, Apr 23

Flights from Santa Ana to San José - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Santa Ana to San José 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 Santa Ana to San José?

The average price of all flights from Santa Ana to San José, San José Province clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to San José on a Tuesday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Friday is the most expensive day to fly from Santa Ana to San José. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Monday and avoiding Fridays for the best deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Santa Ana to San José, San José Province?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from Santa Ana to San José, San José Province, 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 Santa Ana to San José, San José Province is September, where tickets cost $349 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and November, where the average cost of tickets is $669 and $509 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Santa Ana to San José, San José Province?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from Santa Ana to San José, San José Province, 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 Santa Ana to San José, San José Province, you should book around 3 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 73 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from Santa Ana to San José?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
The cheapest return flight ticket from Santa Ana to San José found by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours was for $275 on Spirit Airlines, followed by Delta ($502). One-way flight deals have also been found from as low as $126 on Spirit Airlines and from $285 on Delta.

How long does a flight from Santa Ana to San José take?

There are no direct flights for this route listed on KAYAK. The shortest multi-flight duration is 11h 05m.

Good to know

Low season

November

High season

June

Cheapest flight

$126
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 12% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 20% lower on average.
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When to book flights from Santa Ana to San José

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Santa Ana to San José based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or round-trips with a duration up to 40 days. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs for booking flights from John Wayne (Santa Ana) to San José

  • What is the cheapest flight from Santa Ana to San José, San José Province?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Santa Ana to San José, San José Province was $126 for a one-way ticket and $275 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Santa Ana and San José?

    Yes

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Santa Ana to San José?

    When flying out of Santa Ana you will be using Santa Ana J. Wayne/Orange Cnty. You will be landing at San José, also known as San José Juan Santamaria Intl.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from John Wayne (Santa Ana) to San José?

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from John Wayne (Santa Ana) to San José?

    SkyTeam, oneworld, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between Santa Ana and San José, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Santa Ana to San José, United Airlines or American Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Santa Ana to San José are United Airlines and American Airlines. With an average price for the route of $834 and an overall rating of 7.4, United Airlines is the most popular choice. American Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $638 and an overall rating of 7.3.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from John Wayne (Santa Ana) to San José?

    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 John Wayne (Santa Ana) to San José.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from John Wayne (Santa Ana) to San José?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San José from John Wayne (Santa Ana) 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 John Wayne (Santa Ana) to San José?

    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 San José with an airline and back to John Wayne (Santa Ana) with another airline. Booking your flights between John Wayne (Santa Ana) and SJO 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 John Wayne (Santa Ana) to San José?

    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 San José from John Wayne (Santa Ana) up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top 3 airlines serving from Santa Ana to San José

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Santa Ana to San José? 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 KAYAK reviews.
7.5
AviancaOverall score based on 4110 reviews
78boarding
80crew
65food
75comfort
76overall
70entertainment
Airline reviews

I don't think anyone actually reads these comments, so I won't spend much time on this submission. If you want to talk, you know how to reach me. The D/FW manager of Avianca (self-identified), Juan Calderon, insisted I buy an onward ticket from San Salvador even though I have diplomatic status in El Salvador and live here. It cost me $1,393 and Mr Calderon would not let me make the ticked flexible so I could get a refund. He went out of his way to be rude to me. He gave me seat 32K -- windowless window seat in the last row and did not offer to let me upgrade even though there were plenty of seats. I have flown well over a million miles in my life and this is the worst experience I have ever had. I would like a refund on the ticket I was forced to buy. Just awful!

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I don't think anyone actually reads these comments, so I won't spend much time on this submission. If you want to talk, you know how to reach me. The D/FW manager of Avianca (self-identified), Juan Calderon, insisted I buy an onward ticket from San Salvador even though I have diplomatic status in El Salvador and live here. It cost me $1,393 and Mr Calderon would not let me make the ticked flexible so I could get a refund. He went out of his way to be rude to me. He gave me seat 32K -- windowless window seat in the last row and did not offer to let me upgrade even though there were plenty of seats. I have flown well over a million miles in my life and this is the worst experience I have ever had. I would like a refund on the ticket I was forced to buy. Just awful!

This is the Spirit of Latino travel. And don’t even get me started on customer service.

Awful. I checked in online and there was no option to pay for baggage, at the airport when I checked in my baggage was received and Iwas not charged. When I got to LA during the boarding process I was told I didn't pay for baggage, the crew resolved I was let in the plane. When I got to my final destination my baggage was not there. It took me two days to receive my baggage. Bad service ever!

There was no food or drink service, couldn’t even get a glass of water for free. It was a long and expensive flight to not offer food or beverage on the plane.

It is better at the jfk than my home country. It was very easy and everything was on time.

There is no food. There is no in-inflight entertainment. The seats are cardboard. The airline is a living hellscape.

My experience was amazing! They helped my elderly mother board on early through a wheelchair and were accommodating to have us sit together since our seats were in different locations. When landing at the airport in GUA they were very helpful with full of hospitality.

No complimentary snacks food, beverage (not even water), pillow and blanket on a 6 hours long flight (including economy comfort). A low form of nickeling an diming. Lost a recurring passanger over a soda. Avianca never again.

Flight departure late. Got late in Colombia making us take a different flight next day. Avianca airport crew messed up my ticket so when a I got in Brazil I didn’t have a ticket for my destination. Had to buy a new ticket out of my pocket.

They charge me $190.00 dollars for the baggage for the bag in side the plane and in the baggage compartment in the plane. The service I got bad bad bad they make wait for a log time and i got to the airport 4 hours before. I don't think I'm going to use you guys never never again no support . And I am going to tell all the guys and people i now to don' use KAYAK

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

Beverage and food services are excellent. We enjoy paying the extra for economy plus for the 3 inches more leg room to be exact.

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.

Flight was delayed by 3 hours. The pilot made up 1 hour during the flight, but that made the wait at the airport 5 hours once you factor getting there 2 hours early.

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.

No snacks served! Seating in the kast row in uncomfortable.

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

Airline did not explain reasons why flight was delayed two hours. Explanations were badly needed and rarely provided. Problem seemed to clearly be the airline’s fault and not the fault of the weather or airport.

Very uncomfortable seats and seat backs, and I am only 5’9”. Delayed due to crew issues, spent a long time with no ventilation. Teeny overhead bins. Wifi worked well. Arrived safely.

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.

You cancelled my flight by email then made it very difficult to get in contact with you. Then put me in a flight with a long layover in Mexico returning to the wrong airport in uk. Mind blowing my stressful. I missed see my grand dad because of you.

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.

This was not the BA business class it used to be. Mediocre food, attendants seemed stretched thin. All the little luxuries that used to make BA business fun were missing. Flight delayed and the explanation given was they forgot to pick up crew - I hope I misheard! Transfer in LHR “sticky” - we thought we had way too much time at 3hours but it was needed. Next time will try different route.

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

The food at Admirals Club was really great Pijamas were a nice feature The flight attendant was very nice and great attitude The aa.com does not work well specially internet service Overall a very good flight .

Flight was delayed and missed connecting flight. Did not give warning about delay until we showed up at the airport. Not good.

The usual wait at Columbus once you land to get to an open gate (20 minutes) and then the usual 30 minutes for your luggage to appear.

Nothing, flight was supposed to leave at 758 am. My flight didn’t leave until 430 pm. Spent the whole day at the airport.

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from Santa Ana to San José found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
4/19Fri
2 stopsSpirit Airlines
24h 51mSNA-SJO
$126
4/26Fri
2 stopsSpirit Airlines
24h 51mSNA-SJO
$132
5/12Sun
2 stopsSpirit Airlines
16h 34mSNA-SJO
$135
4/5Fri
1 stopDelta
13h 29mSNA-SJO
$285
4/6Sat
1 stopAmerican Airlines
14h 45mSNA-SJO
$288
4/6Sat
3 stops
31h 38mSNA-SJO
$320
4/5Fri
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
22h 57mSNA-SJO
$364
6/4Tue
1 stopUnited Airlines
13h 36mSNA-SJO
$430
6/21Fri
2 stopsUnited Airlines
17h 01mSNA-SJO
$466
6/30Sun
3 stops
14h 30mSNA-SJO
$663

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Last minute flights from Santa Ana to San José

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 Santa Ana to San José that are departing in the next 10 days.
4/1Mon
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
18h 14mSNA-SJO
4/5Fri
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
23h 36mSJO-SNA
$616
4/1Mon
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
26h 55mSNA-SJO
4/11Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
22h 27mSJO-SNA
$641
4/1Mon
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
17h 30mSNA-SJO
4/11Thu
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
19h 44mSJO-SNA
$710
4/1Mon
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
11h 41mSNA-SJO
4/11Thu
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
11h 04mSJO-SNA
$713
4/1Mon
multi-stop
18h 35mSNA-SJO
4/11Thu
multi-stop
25h 23mSJO-SNA
$859
4/1Mon
multi-stop
19h 12mSNA-SJO
4/10Wed
multi-stop
34h 08mSJO-SNA
$926
3/29Fri
multi-stopDelta
13h 29mSNA-SJO
4/4Thu
multi-stopDelta
13h 06mSJO-SNA
$1,336
3/31Sun
multi-stopUnited Airlines
25h 18mSNA-SJO
4/7Sun
multi-stopUnited Airlines
9h 38mSJO-SNA
$1,401
3/31Sun
multi-stopUnited Airlines
25h 18mSNA-SJO
4/7Sun
multi-stopUnited Airlines
9h 38mSJO-SNA
$1,409
3/31Sun
multi-stopDelta
12h 45mSNA-SJO
4/5Fri
multi-stopDelta
16h 27mSJO-SNA
$1,608

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Santa Ana - San José Flights

Departure:

John Wayne (Santa Ana) (SNA)United States

Destination:

San José (SJO)Costa Rica

Return flight deals:

San José - John Wayne (Santa Ana)

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