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$92 Find Cheap Flights from Des Moines to Miami

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Cheapest round-trip
$189
Overall average: $397
American Airlines
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DSM - MIA • 1 stop
Cheapest non-stop
$418
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Fri 4/3Mon 4/6
DSM - MIA • Non-stop
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Cheapest • from $189 (round-trip)
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Cheapest • Avg $259 (round-trip)
Shortest trip • 5h 09m (one-way)
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Cheap Flights from Des Moines to Miami (DSM-MIA)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Des Moines to Miami 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 Des Moines to Miami

Sat, May 16 - Sun, May 24
American Airlines Logo
12:03 pm - 9:56 pm
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MIA
8h 53m
1 stop
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8:30 pm - 11:08 pm
MIA
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DSM
3h 38mnonstop
$189American Airlines
Fri, Apr 24 - Tue, Apr 28
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3:00 pm - 10:51 pm
DSM
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MIA
6h 51m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
11:17 am - 8:21 pm
MIA
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DSM
10h 04m
1 stop
$199American Airlines
Sat, Apr 25 - Sat, May 2
American Airlines Logo
12:00 pm - 7:24 pm
DSM
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MIA
6h 24m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:05 am - 11:10 am
MIA
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DSM
6h 05m
1 stop
$200American Airlines
Mon, Apr 27 - Fri, May 1
Southwest Logo
5:25 am - 5:30 pm
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MIA
11h 05m
2 stops
Southwest Logo
6:05 am - 11:45 am
MIA
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DSM
6h 40m
1 stop
$204Southwest
Wed, May 20 - Mon, May 25
American Airlines Logo
1:25 pm - 11:01 pm
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MIA
8h 36m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
8:30 pm - 11:08 pm
MIA
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DSM
3h 38mnonstop
$209American Airlines
Sun, May 10 - Thu, May 14
Southwest Logo
4:20 pm - 10:45 pm
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MIA
5h 25m
1 stop
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11:40 am - 11:05 pm
MIA
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DSM
12h 25m
2 stops
$210Southwest
Tue, Apr 14 - Thu, Apr 16
Southwest Logo
5:30 am - 4:50 pm
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MIA
10h 20m
2 stops
Southwest Logo
11:40 am - 11:05 pm
MIA
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DSM
12h 25m
2 stops
$215Southwest
Sat, Aug 1 - Fri, Aug 7
Delta Logo
6:30 pm - 12:56 am
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MIA
5h 26m
1 stop
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7:15 am - 2:07 pm
MIA
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DSM
7h 52m
1 stop
$217Delta
Sat, Apr 4 - Sat, Apr 11
American Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 11:20 am
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MIA
3h 20mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
6:05 am - 11:10 am
MIA
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DSM
6h 05m
1 stop
$218American Airlines
Sat, Apr 4 - Sat, Apr 11
American Airlines Logo
3:26 pm - 11:51 pm
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MIA
7h 25m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:05 am - 11:10 am
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DSM
6h 05m
1 stop
$228American Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Des Moines to Miami flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Des Moines to Miami 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 Des Moines to Miami?

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

For Des Moines to Miami, Thursday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Saturday is the most expensive. Flying from Miami back to Des Moines, the best deals are generally found on Saturday, with Tuesday being the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Des Moines to Miami?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Des Moines to Miami, 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 Des Moines to Miami is December, where tickets cost $302 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are March and February, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $538 and $470 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Des Moines to Miami?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Des Moines to Miami, 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 Des Moines to Miami, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 33% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 6 weeks before departure.

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Low seasonSeptember
Cheapest flight$92
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 5% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 1% increase in price.
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When to book flights from Des Moines to Miami

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Des Moines to Miami 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 Des Moines to Miami

  • What is the cheapest flight from Des Moines to Miami?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Des Moines to Miami was $92 for a one-way ticket and $189 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Des Moines and Miami?

    A passport is not required to fly from Des Moines to Miami.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Des Moines to Miami?

    Des Moines and Miami are both served by 1 main airport. You will leave Des Moines from Des Moines and will be arriving at Miami.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from Des Moines to Miami?

    American Airlines, and Delta offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the Des Moines to Miami flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Des Moines to Miami?

    The Embraer 175 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Des Moines to Miami flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Des Moines to Miami?

    Star Alliance, SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Des Moines and Miami, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from Des Moines to Miami?

    There are nonstop flights from Des Moines to Miami on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Des Moines to Miami, Southwest or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Des Moines to Miami are Southwest and Delta. With an average price for the route of $436 and an overall rating of 8.0, Southwest is the most popular choice. Delta is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $318 and an overall rating of 7.9.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Des Moines to Miami?

    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 Des Moines to Miami.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Miami from Des Moines 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 Des Moines to Miami?

    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 Miami with an airline and back to Des Moines with another airline. Booking your flights between Des Moines and MIA 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 Des Moines to Miami?

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

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from Des Moines to Miami

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $236 or less one-way and $656 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Des Moines to Miami?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Des Moines to Miami.
Find which airlines fly direct from Des Moines Airport to Miami Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Des Moines to Miami

Monday

American Airlines

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Tuesday

American Airlines

American Airlines

Wednesday

American Airlines

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Thursday

American Airlines

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Friday

American Airlines

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Saturday

American Airlines

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Sunday

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Miami to Des Moines

Monday

American Airlines

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Tuesday

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Wednesday

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Thursday

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Friday

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Saturday

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Des Moines to Miami

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Des Moines to Miami. 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 Des Moines to Miami? 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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SouthwestOverall score based on 4318 reviews
7.5Entertainment
8.6Crew
8.1Boarding
8.0Comfort
7.0Food
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Long layover between flights to Long Island from BWI - need better coordination between flights

4.0 OkayKenny, Mar 2026
TPA - BWI
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Long layover between flights to Long Island from BWI - need better coordination between flights

I elected to pay for the upgrades and found very little difference

The new seating arrangement is so over priced for what you get.

The problem with the seat assignments is that there were a lot of rows in the front that were empty but my row at the back was full. Just not so pleasant.

No food or entertainment, just a quick 40 minute flight. A little bumpy due to Santa Ana winds but pilot has no control over that. Good flight and landing!

Good but I prefer choose your own seat. With the new assigned seats they should board from the back I see no advantage to this new boarding. Just like every other airline

I realize they are still working out kinks with the new boarding process, but by the time I boarded in group 5, most of the bins were full. All airlines should better enforce small bags and jackets going under the seats until everyone has boarded.

WiFi was not working and didn’t have a beverage service

Snacks are always pretzels. Why can't you also offer peanuts ?

Flight boarded late after announcing on time boarding. Flight arrived only a little late despite late departure. Had trouble connecting to WiFi

The whole experience was excellent. As it most often is with Delta

We waited an hour on the runway to get a gate in Orlando

Flight was delayed by 3-hours and their fix was… complimentary pretzels.

The staff on board and gate was nice - a welcome change from the usual. We also arrived early, which was a great benefit, given that it takes 30 minutes plus to get bags at SRQ.

They took all carry-on luggage from Groups 6 -9 - I was group 5 and waiting in line to board - they made me check my luggage too. That then went to baggage claim and delayed departure from the airport. There was overhead room in my seating area - Delta over reacted. Also, had a gentleman next to me that took up 1/2 my seat.

Sorry I didn't realize I was writing a review for each leg. Please see my previous review - it applies to the entire flight, not just a single leg.

boarded at 5:30 pm, pushed away from gate at 6pm ... takeoff was not until ~6:45pm; disappointing

Paid for wifi that didn't work. No plug in seat to work. No entertainment.

I've flown several other airlines, and Delta is really on top on things.

The flight was delayed and oversold. I volunteered to give up my seat for compensation. Thinking I could get a good night's sleep instead of arriving home at 2 am. It took over an hour to get the new reservation confirmed, three different gate attendants, and two red coats. It took even longer to confirm the overnight hotel, and when I arrived, the line was 45 minutes long, with two people checking in, and at least 15 people slowly, very slowly—no food except frozen convenience food, no coupon for food from airlines. Slept, headed back to the airport, and that flight had an equipment change and a gate change just as they were about to board. It took an additional hour to board as they cleaned the plane from storage.

Everything was on time and service on the flight was great!

Wifi Bluetooth features for watching in flight movie was horrible. Screen kept blacking out no connection of sound although it said connected. Other than that smooth trip .

The travel company that you have on your site did me so wrong. I don’t know how it happened, but they put my son‘s name on my plane ticket flying to Vietnam. Along with his birthday. They would not have let me fly from Fort Myers to Ho Chi Minh City. I don’t think that I can ever use your service again. I typed my information into the browser along with my passport number and four days before I’m leaving I have to quickly search another ticket to fly out here.

Seats are uncomfortable. This has been a trend in the industry for decades. Trying to fit more seats on each plane to increase profits at the expense of the passenger.

The flight was delayed so we were dead tired, and after that the turbulence was horrible. I was very scared.

It’s always a great time flying with united airlines.

Good flight. Efficient boarding and competent flight crew. No problems until we arrived at our destination gate. We were early so there was an aircraft at the gate that had to move before we could pull in. Then, due to the type of aircraft we flew, the cabin door could not be opened until some luggage from the cargo bay was offloaded to preserve center of gravity characteristics. So, that further delayed deplaning. Despite being 20 minutes early on landing, we ended up being 5 to 10 minutes late after all the delays.

Everything went well except the turbulence what no one have a control of but pilot and crew handled very good!

There was no WiFi available, there were mechanical problems with the plane and we landed at C 124, then the gate was switched to A 26, then all the way back to C126! For a 75 yo woman traveling alone, this was a difficult journey, indeed!

This trip did not start off well. The inbound flight was delayed about 20 minutes. Then, after initial onboarding, the passengers had to deplane due to a mechanical problem. That took about 30 minutes to fix and be cleared. Then, reboarding was chaotic. It took a long time to sort passengers and two passengers on standby were ticketed but there was no seat. So, they had to deplane. One of the flight crew was trying to help passengers figure out a place to put their carry-on bags and that took more time. In the end, our scheduled 10:30 am departure did not actually take off until about 12:05 pm CST. The flight itself was long but we got to Houston. Some passengers missed their connecting flights and had to rebook. Not the best of flights I've had.

Superb. Staff great. Great flight. As with other airlines, seating too tight and restrictive.

There is not one likable thing about this airline. It’s starts with the deceptive pricing and continues through the whole flight. The worst staff I’ve ever experienced way over priced bags absolutely no food or drink (unacceptable and you should be embarrassed) the seats are cramped and uncomfortable there is no entertainment there is nothing about this trash airline that constitutes any amount of money. It’s worse than spirit and way more expensive it is disgraceful. Do not travel with Allegiant I repeat do not bother no matter what they say the price is it is never ever going to be the right choice I’m mind blown at how awful the entire experience was I’m embarrassed that I chose so poorly I cannot reiterate enough how beyond horrible this company and its staff are, not one person on this flight or at the airport is qualified to sweep up trash on a city sidewalk they should certainly never be given any job that requires a brain or manners or communication with human beings, what a disgrace to the human race. Your criminal chiselers and should be put out to pasture

Great flight. Friendly staff. Free snacks and drinks would be nice. I would love fewer taxes and fees added on.

My 90 year old father flew with me. He needed wheel chair assistance and is nearly deaf. The staff was amazing with him.

It was fine. Nobody was outstandingly friendly but no one was rude and everything was smooth . The captain thanked us for flying but no one greeted me as I walked on the plane or as I exited which is the least they could do lol

Clean, friendly, roomy. But check-in from the phone link was terrible. Repeated attempts wouldn’t save at the final step. Just kept spinning! It was very frustrating. Finally, I used the app (vs website link) to check-in which worked very smoothly on the first attempt.

Check in on the web portal was cumbersome! After several attempts I finally got the boarding pass.

Excellent flight and even arrived 23 min early. No entertainment , or wi fi on board, but I downloaded a couple of movies beforehand which kept me entertained. Really like flying Allegiant airlines.

WE were delayed about an hour and never any communications from the employees working the gate. We also were moved to a total of three gates.

I love how they show love to their customers and care about them too.

Check in was rough because the check in crew did not know how to manage my international visa documents. Required a long process and 4 people to finally be able to proceed to security. They told us incorrect information several times before acknowledging we did indeed have everything we needed from the start.

We missed our flight and got stranded in Miami where we had to rent a hotel we could not afford. they would not work with us because they said it was weather related even though the gate attendant said it was not. I could go on but trying to get satisfaction has wore me down, which I believe is the intent. My only solution is to never fly AA again.

The flight was really crowded. Flight attendants were just ok.

Wish they didnt delay off-boarding for 10 minutes so i could connect to my flight from miami to tampa

We experienced gate changes and a long delay. My seat was dirty when I boarded and I had to use wipes to clean it myself. There was an unpleasant and overpowering cleaning product scent on the plane as well that lingered through the flight.

Attendants were pleasant and the flight was smooth and relaxed.

Delays to take off and to leave the plane after landing added a lot of time to this flight.

It was a red eye flight, so no meals were provided, but it was fine with snacks. The seats felt cramped and almost too narrow.

While waiting to claim my checked luggage, I discovered the airline had lost it. After a long wait and inquiries, I discovered it was on another flight. Fortunately, the airline finally sent my luggage home.

This flight never occurred because AA couldn’t get their act together.

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