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Cheap Flights from Brisbane to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$737
San Francisco
San Francisco2 stops$902
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$1,017
San Jose
San Jose2 stops$1,477
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$737
San Francisco
San Francisco2 stops$902
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$1,017
San Jose
San Jose2 stops$1,477

Book Cheap Brisbane to California Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Brisbane to California 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.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent round-trip flight deals from Brisbane to California

Mon, Jul 20 - Fri, Jul 24
Fiji Airways Logo
11:55 am - 1:05 pm
BNE
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LAX
18h 10m
1 stop
Fiji Airways Logo
11:55 pm - 10:35 am
LAX
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BNE
17h 40m
1 stop
$737Fiji Airways
Sun, Oct 11 - Tue, Oct 27
Fiji Airways Logo
11:35 am - 1:05 pm
BNE
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LAX
18h 30m
1 stop
Fiji Airways Logo
11:35 pm - 10:15 am
LAX
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BNE
17h 40m
1 stop
$738Fiji Airways
Sat, Aug 1 - Mon, Aug 31
Fiji Airways Logo
11:55 am - 1:05 pm
BNE
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LAX
18h 10m
1 stop
Fiji Airways Logo
11:55 pm - 10:35 am
LAX
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BNE
17h 40m
1 stop
$739Fiji Airways
Sun, Jul 19 - Sun, Aug 9
United Airlines Logo
10:30 am - 8:42 pm
BNE
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ONT
27h 12m
2 stops
United Airlines Logo
6:10 am - 6:30 am
ONT
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BNE
55h 20m
2 stops
$929United Airlines
Fri, Aug 14 - Sat, Aug 22
United Airlines Logo
10:30 am - 12:12 pm
BNE
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ONT
18h 42m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
1:18 pm - 6:30 am
ONT
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BNE
48h 12m
2 stops
$932United Airlines
Fri, Oct 23 - Fri, Oct 30
American Airlines Logo
8:35 pm - 8:22 am
BNE
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SNA
28h 47m
2 stops
American Airlines Logo
1:23 pm - 6:30 am
SNA
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BNE
24h 07m
2 stops
$982American Airlines
Thu, Oct 29 - Mon, Nov 2
American Airlines Logo
9:45 am - 6:31 pm
BNE
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SNA
25h 46m
2 stops
American Airlines Logo
1:26 pm - 6:30 am
SNA
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BNE
23h 04m
2 stops
$997American Airlines
Mon, Nov 2 - Mon, Nov 9
Qantas Airways Logo
1:10 pm - 11:45 am
BNE
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SMF
16h 35m
1 stop
Qantas Airways Logo
4:30 pm - 5:50 am
SMF
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BNE
19h 20m
1 stop
$1,013Qantas Airways
Mon, Nov 2 - Mon, Nov 9
Qantas Airways Logo
1:10 pm - 11:45 am
BNE
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SMF
16h 35m
1 stop
Qantas Airways Logo
4:30 pm - 5:50 am
SMF
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BNE
19h 20m
1 stop
$1,018Qantas Airways
Mon, Aug 3 - Mon, Aug 10
Air New Zealand Logo
9:40 am - 8:53 pm
BNE
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SAN
28h 13m
2 stops
Air New Zealand Logo
6:27 pm - 11:05 am
SAN
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BNE
23h 38m
2 stops
$1,093Air New Zealand
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Brisbane to California flights

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

How much is a round-trip flight from Brisbane to California?

This analysis is based on the cheapest round-trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from Brisbane to California departing in July.

What is the cheapest Brisbane to California flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest ticket to California from Brisbane found in the last 5 days was to Los Angeles, at $598 round-trip. The most popular route is from Brisbane (BNE) to San Francisco (SFO), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 5 days was $1,553.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to California?

The average price for all round-trip flights from Brisbane to California depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

The cheapest time of day to fly to California is generally in the morning, when round-trip flights cost $1,064 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to California is generally in the afternoon, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $2,070.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Brisbane to California?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

Yes, flying with a layover may cost you more time, but you can also save money on the route, with a 1 stop layover the cheapest option at $1,350 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Brisbane to California?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Brisbane to California, 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 Brisbane to California is April, when tickets cost $322 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and August, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $2,476 and $2,061 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Brisbane to California?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Brisbane to California clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to California on a Sunday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Saturday is the most expensive day to fly from Brisbane to California. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Tuesday and avoiding Thursdays for the best deals.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Brisbane to California?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Brisbane to California, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Brisbane to California, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 8% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 14 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$499
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 12% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 15% increase in price.
Flight from Brisbane to Los Angeles

FAQs - booking California flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Brisbane to California?

    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 Brisbane to California.

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

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

    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 from Brisbane to California with an airline and back with another airline.

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

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

Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Brisbane to the following destinations at these prices or less: Los Angeles $672 one-way - $1,318 round-trip; San Francisco $503 one-way - $1,896 round-trip

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Brisbane to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Brisbane to California. 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 Brisbane to California? 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.
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Fiji AirwaysOverall score based on 246 reviews
8.1Boarding
7.5Entertainment
8.1Comfort
8.6Crew
7.5Food
Airline reviews

Left on time , arrived on time. Staff was awesome!!!!! Great flight!!!!

10.0 ExcellentNick, Mar 2026
NAN - LAX
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Left on time , arrived on time. Staff was awesome!!!!! Great flight!!!!

A bit cramped in economy and the people in front wouldn’t put their seats up during meal service, crew did not help with that and I felt they could have done more about it.

The airline is ok, but it needs to improve it schedules.

In-flight entertainment options could use a refresh, Consider a tie-up with Spotify for more current music and with IMDB or other service for newer selections/movie ratings.

6 hour delay and they didnt try to make up any time during an over 10 hour flight

Entertainment was not good. Seems like liquor should’ve been advertised only beer and wine was even though I saw others getting liquor didn’t realize I could. And the food to me could’ve been a little bit.

Better connections, much better cabin crew, much cleaner cabin that Qantas, American and probably other carriers.

The flight attendants were extremely friendly and helpful. Everything ran on time. I highly recommend Fiji Airways.

Very clean aircraft. Friendly staff. New plane. Food quality was good. Not my flavor but I saw the effort.

I never went and I’ve tried calling to cancel the flight see if I can postpone for another date but every time they’ll transfer me to another personal.

The Premium Economy seats were very comfortable and the food was quite tasty. I did not use the entertainment system, but I was able to charge my phone and tablet with the seatback connection.

We had difficulty checking in as United didn’t recognize the confirmation number and the agent was not helpful. We went to the United Assistance desk where the agent was able to process our reservation. We also weren’t allowed to choose seats in advance.

Air New Zealand over sold our flight and tried to bump us to yesterday. After several calls we got booked to United about 6 hrs before our original flight. No apologies!

Please add more Bollywood movies and recent movies to the entertainment.

Flight was delayed by 2 hours. Got lucky that i had a long connection, else would have certainly missed my connecting flight. Food is just okay, specially the breakfast is worse . Asked for water 30 mins before landing, the response is that we are landing so everything is packed . I guess traveling in economy that’s what we get. Probably business class passengers would get a different answer. Only good thing is that wifi service is available from auckland to lax for most part Next time will try united or American and then compare.

Great except paying $240 usd for 2 pounds over on a checked luggage. Outrageous.

Kayak did not propagate my United miles account and I had to manually get credit.

Service was excellent and they’re very helpful and nice

Check in crew member was very helpful, nice and excellent service👍

Couldn’t request a vegan meal somehow but I noticed other people getting them

I missed my flight due to unforeseen circumstances It was, however , an excellent price !

Very good overall. Highly recommend for all flying to Australia

Qantas is always subpar beyond comfy chairs for a domestic flight

Airline running better than post Covid, proper boarding process now implemented, some aircraft feeling a bit old and tired, crew fine, online experience better.

Inflight entertainment, poor that there are no headrest screens on aircraft used for an international flight.

Touch screens were very difficult to use, generally being laggy and unresponsive- it was quite an art to get it to play the thing you wanted rather than some thing at random. Selection of films and Tv was good when touchscreen decided to finally respond.

Their aircraft are old and amenities lack way behind other international carriers leaving from BNE. Even in economy

The old Plane had not been cleaned properly in a long time.

Top notch service, good selection of snack and meal options, generous accommodation for luggage, and great selection of in cabin entertainment. I really appreciate the offering of pillows, blankets, sleep mask, tb&paste, and earplugs. The only complaint I can make was that my seat was horribly uncomfortable and lacked cushion.

An extremely long flight packed in like sardines. But they feed you often with meals,drinks and snacks. They have a lot of movies and audio books

Monitor control didn’t work & couldn’t figure out how to lay bed flat so I slept very poorly. Cabin was very cold

Uncomfortable plastic seats even in premium economy. No free wifi. Even paid wifi was spotty to nonexistent. Bad food. Much worse than economy on foreign carriers like Qantas.

Good flight. However, when booked flight with United, assumed the layover included by United in San Francisco of 1 hr and 40 minutes was sufficient . Not so and would recommend at least 2 hours or more. Needed to go through US immigration (very long lineups), then pick up bags, take all the way to another terminal, running because we did not have sufficient time. We made the flight because they held the door for us but luggage didn’t follow.

It was good but only meal served is very less. Meantime good to add rice and chicken in one of meal

I found the staff to not be very attentive at all. When paying for Business Class you expect a certain type of service and that was not found. They were almost rude even

Great. Food going from Australia to the US was better than other way around, but still needs improvement in terms of quality and quantity!!!

Crew seemed annoyed by the fact we were there. Very unpleasant

Due to a cancelled flight the day before this flight only had 44 people. Best flight ever on international route. Food getting better. Can United provide fruit ex apples and bananas for snacks? Crew fantastic.

Honestly didn’t like anything. Crew was in rush . Food was ok and there was no whiskey. Have to pay extra $ if you want to drink whiskey . They only provide wine and beer.

Compared to other international Airlines the infotainment system is need of overhaul. Doesn't have music it's got a limited selection of movies but I was impressed that an American airline was showing the documentary on John Farnham an Australian singer!

The plane was up-to-date, and the free wi-fi was very much appreciated! All of the ports functioned well, and the entertainment choices made the flight much more enjoyable. One of the flight attendants was unfriendly, but the flight was enjoyable overall.

The food was good. I almost didn't get a seat on the flight unless I agreed to sit in emergency exit.

I got bumped by Qantas to American Airlines incurring a 6 hr layover at lax. I was not happy

The flight attendant was very polite and attentive. The food was good.

I had a comfortable and enjoyable experience. The entertainment options were plentiful, the food was appetizing, the snacks were tasty, and the staff was friendly, professional, and helpful.

Flight cancelled. Twice. And no communication. No gate agent. Went past boarding time and had to go and see email from AA. Airport communication was bad

It was so much better than expected, Ohare is not such a pleasant experience but American Airlines with the new, clean aeroplane and free Wi-Fi was outstanding and the crew so pleasant and helpful.

The flight attendants as well as the gate agent were out to lunch. Nothing extraordinary about their service. American just keeps getting worse every year.

I have been flying with American most of my professional career. But the airline seems tired and becoming more and more subpar with older planes than other airlines, dirtier and less comfortable seating, and less and less amenities. Their WiFi seldom works and their food is becoming more and more mediocre. How do you fly from LAX to PHL with only being offered one drink and as a platinum customer. I am exploring delta here on out for more of my flying.

American Airlines canceled the flight twice and was unable to facilitate a change of city for us after our travel plans became affected. We lost alot of money due to this and it seems like the airline was trying their best not to facilitate this. Mind you, I am a very loyal member.

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