$166 Find Cheap Flights from Central America to San Diego

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Cheapest round-trip
$289
Typical prices: $381-$550
Copa Airlines
Wed 2/25Wed 3/4
SJO - SAN • 1 stop
Cheapest non-stop
$708
Copa Airlines
Fri 2/20Fri 2/27
PTY - SAN • Non-stop
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Cheap Flights from Central America to San Diego

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Central America to San Diego 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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Recent round-trip flight deals from Central America to San Diego

Wed, Feb 25 - Wed, Mar 4
Copa Airlines Logo
5:50 am - 5:13 pm
SJO
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SAN
13h 23m1 stop
Copa Airlines Logo
8:18 pm - 1:53 pm
SAN
-
SJO
15h 35m1 stop
$289Copa Airlines
Thu, Jan 29 - Sun, Feb 1
United Airlines Logo
2:05 pm - 9:40 am
SJO
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SAN
21h 35m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
6:15 am - 8:32 am
SAN
-
SJO
24h 17m1 stop
$292United Airlines
Sun, Feb 1 - Sun, Feb 8
Copa Airlines Logo
8:11 am - 5:13 pm
SJO
-
SAN
11h 02m1 stop
Copa Airlines Logo
8:17 pm - 4:46 pm
SAN
-
SJO
18h 29m2 stops
$294Copa Airlines
Wed, Mar 18 - Wed, Apr 1
United Airlines Logo
1:05 pm - 8:40 am
SJO
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SAN
20h 35m2 stops
United Airlines Logo
4:21 pm - 10:11 am
SAN
-
SJO
16h 50m2 stops
$303United Airlines
Thu, Feb 5 - Fri, Mar 13
JetBlue Logo
4:40 pm - 2:18 pm
GUA
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SAN
23h 38m1 stop
JetBlue Logo
9:00 pm - 1:23 pm
SAN
-
GUA
15h 23m1 stop
$417JetBlue
Tue, Mar 10 - Tue, Mar 17
Alaska Airlines Logo
10:00 am - 7:17 am
BZE
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SAN
22h 17m2 stops
Alaska Airlines Logo
10:09 pm - 4:47 pm
SAN
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BZE
17h 38m2 stops
$455Alaska Airlines
Tue, Mar 10 - Tue, Mar 17
Alaska Airlines Logo
10:00 am - 7:17 am
BZE
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SAN
22h 17m3 stops
Alaska Airlines Logo
10:09 pm - 4:47 pm
SAN
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BZE
17h 38m2 stops
$464Alaska Airlines
Fri, Jun 12 - Sun, Jul 12
JetBlue Logo
1:45 pm - 9:46 am
LIR
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SAN
21h 01m1 stop
JetBlue Logo
8:30 pm - 12:15 pm
SAN
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LIR
14h 45m1 stop
$689JetBlue
Fri, Jun 12 - Sun, Jul 12
American Airlines Logo
3:37 pm - 8:51 am
LIR
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SAN
18h 14m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
12:36 pm - 11:20 am
SAN
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LIR
21h 44m1 stop
$719American Airlines
Fri, Jun 12 - Sun, Jul 12
American Airlines Logo
3:37 pm - 8:51 am
LIR
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SAN
18h 14m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
12:36 pm - 11:20 am
SAN
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LIR
21h 44m1 stop
$725American Airlines
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Low seasonFebruary
Cheapest flight$170
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 4% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 5% lower on average.
Flight from San José to San Diego

FAQs for booking flights from Central America to San Diego

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

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  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Central America to San Diego?

    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 Diego with an airline and back to Central America with another airline.

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

Reviews of the top 3 airlines serving from Central America to San Diego

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Central America to San Diego? 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.
7.6
Copa AirlinesOverall score based on 1562 reviews
7.8Boarding
7.4Comfort
6.8Food
8.1Crew
6.8Entertainment
Airline reviews

Horrible. No TV or any type of entertainment on board. Passwnger listening to/watching stuff on their own phone with no headphones making it noise and uncomfortable for everyone else, little/tiny food portions, old seats, useless wifi (cant access anything). Horrible exlerience especially it was a lomg distance flight with kids.

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, Dec 2025
PTY - POA
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Horrible. No TV or any type of entertainment on board. Passwnger listening to/watching stuff on their own phone with no headphones making it noise and uncomfortable for everyone else, little/tiny food portions, old seats, useless wifi (cant access anything). Horrible exlerience especially it was a lomg distance flight with kids.

Very strict carry on rules meant most of the plane had to gate check their luggage. As is often the case had things that were broken because of this, but I appreciated not being charged to gate check. Otherwise good flight and great crew once on the plane

Some of the Air hostesses are not that friendly. Need improvement

They were super friendly bumped me up to exit row free of charge, All flight legs were on time

Cops Airlines is fantastic! The level of care and professionalism provided by the entire crew was top rate.

We had a great flight just wished they had a tv so we can see a movie that would of made my trip excellent.

horrible service, food was an embarrassment, no charging for cellphones, stay away

Great experience with a crew always thinking in the passenger

The flighr attandants were very rude they ignored me didnt offer me anything to drink throughoit the 4 hour flight i feel i was targeted and ignored because i was a darkskin latino man.

Very happy with my flight. I would definitely recommend it.

On the way my flight entertainment wouldn’t work the screen went black and no matter how many times I tried to turn it on it wouldn’t. Food was surprisingly good but the tray tables were tiny so you couldn’t get anything else on the table. The seats hardly go back and are not overly comfortable. Wouldn’t fly United again.

Unbelievably poor service from flight attendants. They didn’t even do water service on a four hour flight. Just disrespectful.

Flight was late - I was downgraded from first class to coach

Movie selection is good. Crew did not understand mileage program and were no help. Sick later. Food?

United needs to step up their game. Delayed flight leaving Seattle, San Francisco. Older aircraft, not very comfortable.

The flight attendants were very rude, beyond comprehension. I took a business class from London to SFO for the first time on United. When I asked for a second piece of bread during dinner, the serving attendant threw a 3rd bread on my plate and said, “here. You can have this one too”! I couldn’t believe the rudeness of the attendant. Most all attendants were very rude, unhelpful, sing the food was absolutely disgusting. Never fly United internationally in business class. My flight back to SFO was a nightmare!!

Plane boarded early a quickly, was mostly full. We left close to on time. And landed early.

7 hours delayed due to operational issues on United’s end. Basically laziness.

Flight from Rome to SFO was excellent compared To our flight to Europe from SFO. The food was much tastier. You can see how UNITED is skimping, though. Instead of getting something mid flight you had to ask for it. It was not automatically served. There was a cookie at the end of the arrival meal, for example that tasted like it just came out of a box. They used to serve a little container of nuts, now … a tiny container of nuts, mixed with pretzels. This was business class that you really have to pay for! But this is minor complaints compared to the overall. My major complaint is the position of the even numbered seats by the windows. You have to turn around to see your window & the positioning as some other controls are harder to get at. This is compared to the odd number seat that are perfectly aligned.

The food quality sucks. One must starve if they do not eat flesh Or wheat based products Some variety would be expected. The trivial amount of snacks and or food is inhumane

Everything about the flight was lovely. My only suggestion would be to offer a few more options of tv series from Apple TV or HBO.

After the door had been closed, the cockpit makes an announcement that catering is running late and it is not the airline's fault. It is their fault in the sense that we had to sit for 2 hours or more when we could have stayed in the terminal. Poor communications between catering and airline. This caused a young man to lose his temper and he went storming out hitting objects. He had complained to the gate agent that he had already waited at the gate 7 hours and when can the airplane leave? Airilnes do a poor job of explaining delays, maintenance issues, etc. whereas being truthful may gain more sympathy or understanding.

We were told the flight was delayed 5 times, then it was moved to the next day.

The experience with American Airlines was good, although the Philippines Airlines flight was much better (better seats, better food, better entertainment options, overall better). Again, the MIA to LAX flight was fine, but nothing in comparison to the comfort and accommodations of the Philippines Airlines flight from LAX to MNL.

Loved the crew . Absolutely no complaints. Except for luggage lost

Wish some foods provided rather than just biscuit/cookie for flight more than 2 hours

We are too tired and frustrated to comment politely at this point

The business class seats are dated and uncomfortable. The space is bare minimum and there is absolutely no privacy. For $4K, this is not what I expect.

The flight crew was rude. We were in first class and no one even offered water until an hour after we were in the air. Horrible experience

Great. Quick and quiet and east. The breakfast choices were a welcome surprise!

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