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Wed, Jan 27 - Fri, Feb 5
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7:40 am - 7:38 pmMAD  Madrid Barajas-SAN San Diego
20h 58m2 stops Lisbon Humberto Delgado San Francisco
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3:30 pm - 11:30 pmSAN  San Diego-MAD Madrid Barajas
47h 00m2 stops San Francisco Lisbon Humberto Delgado
$611Multiple Airlines
Tue, Dec 8 - Sun, Mar 7
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9:55 am - 4:10 pmBER  Berlin Brandenburg-SAN San Diego
15h 15m1 stop London Heathrow
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6:00 pm - 6:15 pmSAN  San Diego-BER Berlin Brandenburg
15h 15m1 stop London Heathrow
$673British Airways
Tue, Dec 1 - Thu, Dec 10
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8:05 pm - 4:10 pmBER  Berlin Brandenburg-SAN San Diego
29h 05m1 stop London Heathrow
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6:00 pm - 9:40 pmSAN  San Diego-BER Berlin Brandenburg
18h 40m1 stop London Heathrow
$680British Airways
Fri, Nov 20 - Fri, Dec 4
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8:30 pm - 7:11 pmMUC  Munich Franz Josef Strauss-SAN San Diego
31h 41m2 stops Kastrup Copenhagen San Francisco
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8:17 am - 7:45 pmSAN  San Diego-MUC Munich Franz Josef Strauss
26h 28m3 stops Las Vegas Harry Reid Intl San Francisco Kastrup Copenhagen
$697Multiple Airlines
Tue, Dec 8 - Sun, Mar 7
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9:55 am - 4:10 pmBER  Berlin Brandenburg-SAN San Diego
15h 15m1 stop London Heathrow
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4:48 pm - 6:15 pmSAN  San Diego-BER Berlin Brandenburg
16h 27m2 stops Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl London Heathrow
$701American Airlines
Tue, Dec 8 - Sat, Mar 6
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6:20 am - 4:10 pmBER  Berlin Brandenburg-SAN San Diego
18h 50m1 stop London Heathrow
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6:00 pm - 11:15 amSAN  San Diego-BER Berlin Brandenburg
32h 15m1 stop London Heathrow
$701American Airlines
Tue, Dec 1 - Thu, Dec 10
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7:40 am - 3:45 pmBER  Berlin Brandenburg-SAN San Diego
17h 05m2 stops Frankfurt am Main Munich Franz Josef Strauss
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6:23 pm - 7:55 pmSAN  San Diego-BER Berlin Brandenburg
16h 32m2 stops San Francisco Munich Franz Josef Strauss
$712Lufthansa
Wed, Nov 25 - Tue, Dec 8
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9:00 am - 3:45 pmBER  Berlin Brandenburg-SAN San Diego
15h 45m1 stop Munich Franz Josef Strauss
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5:35 pm - 6:10 pmSAN  San Diego-BER Berlin Brandenburg
15h 35m1 stop Munich Franz Josef Strauss
$729Lufthansa
Sun, Dec 6 - Sun, Mar 7
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8:40 am - 12:19 amBER  Berlin Brandenburg-SAN San Diego
24h 39m2 stops Frankfurt am Main San Francisco
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8:45 pm - 7:55 amSAN  San Diego-BER Berlin Brandenburg
26h 10m1 stop Newark
$765United Airlines
Tue, Dec 8 - Wed, Mar 3
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11:40 am - 12:19 amBER  Berlin Brandenburg-SAN San Diego
21h 39m2 stops Frankfurt am Main San Francisco
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7:10 am - 7:55 amSAN  San Diego-BER Berlin Brandenburg
15h 45m1 stop Newark
$765United Airlines

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Best time to beat the crowds with an average 16% drop in price.
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Flight from Barcelona to San Diego

Flights from Europe to San Diego: the best tips from KAYAK users

Insights shared by verified travelers who flew the route from Europe to San Diego 
Verified travelerFlew with British Airways-Aug 2026
Ensure enough time between connections if you have one! Heathrow is a great and efficient airport but it’s big! Be kind! Everyone is there doing their best to help passengers!
Verified travelerFlew with British Airways-Sep 2024
Flight overall is good. Service is very good. Bring yourself some snacks, in case the food isn’t up to your taste.
GzimFlew with Lufthansa-Aug 2024
Buy your own food, choose seating where you have your own row or someone your flying with.

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Europe to San Diego

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Europe 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.
7.8
KLMOverall score based on 1587 reviews
8.4Crew
7.8Boarding
7.3Food
7.2Entertainment
7.7Comfort
Airline reviews

I wanted to give them a five‑star rating across the board, but they lost my luggage, and that really affected the experience.

8.0 ExcellentNikola, Oct 2026
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I wanted to give them a five‑star rating across the board, but they lost my luggage, and that really affected the experience.

The flight itself was fine, food was expired and gross, staff were mostly amazing! KLM messed up rebooking for our first two flights that got cancelled and we almost didn’t make it to Amsterdam for an additional two days

I think I previously submitted my feedback about flight lead Katherine in a different field by mistake. Please see those comments. Comments for Hyd to AMS are it was good. The flight lead and service met expectations for satisfactory high quality service but the flight lead did not stand out as exceptional as did the leads on the other two flights so I don’t remember anything specific one way or the other besides the fact I was satisfied.

Flight lead was a gentleman with silver hair and he went out of his way to shake hands and interact with each passenger seated in business class. A medical emergency took place during our flight and he handled it with perfect poise and professionalism. He was gracious and confidently competent. Just what you want from a leader,

Crew is not the cheerful type. very slow meal service (this is their style as have flown this many times)

Legroom not all it could be, especially when the seat in front is reclined. Otherwise it was good, food and beverage were nice.

This fight left ahead of time which meant it arrived early which was great. Staff were very professional, but as with all these Short hop Flights the food was a disappointing snack There was no entertainment on this flight, but I did not expect any

I flew premium economy and this was a good option. Although the seats didn’t recline much, I was able to get some sleep with my head propped against the window. The food was good and the entertainment was wonderful The staff were very attentive and professional

Seats were nice and comfy. Crew was polite and attentive. Business class is awesome and worth the money.

It was operated by Delta. Boarding took a long time. How difficult can it be? Overall decent trip. Liked the Salt Lake City airport. Better option than Chicago for transfers.

Both of my flights to and from JFK experienced significant delays. Most notably, my first flight was delayed by six hours due to crew members being affected by delays on a previous flight. While I understand that disruptions can occur, Delta’s staffing and operational planning should include sufficient contingency measures to handle situations like this rather than placing the full burden of those delays on customers. Additionally, the $12 meal voucher offered as compensation was inadequate, particularly given the high cost of food and beverages at the airport. Considering the length of the delay and the substantial inconvenience caused, I believe more meaningful compensation would have been appropriate.

Crew was real good, flight was smooth and came in early.

Gate agent rushed to fill hot jetway with crowd so it took over 12 minutes to go from gate to plane. Just like a discount airline Pooly prepared cabin and third time that claim of rough air prevented any cabin service. Friends on a Southwest flight at similar time had service.

Not a "Delta" issue, but a JFK issue: We booked a connecting flight with 3 1/2 hours between to clearn immigration and customs. Our inbound flight (BCN to JFK) was on the taxiway 45 minutes which ate into our layover time. Immigtration was insanely quick with the CBP MPC app; however, clearing TSA (again, after we were ALREADY cleared in Spain on the inbound international flight) took over 95 minutes. This left us with 10 minutes before boarding the connecting flight (JFK to SAN) to walk to the far end of Terminal 4 and try to find food. We didn't find any food that could promise to serve us in under 10 minutes so we boarded the Delta flight after coming off a plance and an 8-hour flight knowing that we wouldn't be served any food on the next 5 1/2 hour flight. I feel like Delta needs to put pressure on the JFK TSA to open more screening stations (by our count, we saw only 5 scanners open and a line of - as we said - over 90 minutes. The insult is that we WERE ALREADY SCREENED through TSA, but as you come off one flight into the USA, you have to go through the whole process again. It seems like if you have a connecting flight, there should be a way to pass through immigration and customs without needing to return through TSA.

Rough day of travel all the way around. Wrong info given to us multiple times and mistakes in their booking making our trip 10 hours longer than planned. I’m bummed because I fly Delta all the time and love them. Mistakes happen. Just bummed that this was a rare trip our whole family was traveling together.

It was good until there was a 3 hour delay because there was not any pilots to fly the plane.

Everything was very good other than I had selected a specific seat when I booked the flight and they changed it once I checked-in the day before my flight. I was still in first class but lost my aisle seat for a window seat. Being tall, the aisle offers more comfort so I always select an aisle seat.

Flight diverted in SD. Later take off in Seattle by 1.3hrs

Was a great smooth flight from Detroit to San Diego.

The boarding process was terrible especially with an indirect flight Chicago to Seattle to San Diego was terrible talking about we overbooked a flight idk if I’d take this airline ever again we got off our flight from Chicago to Seattle and we traveled for business and they told us our connecting flight was over booked and their was no seats asking people to take a delayed next flight and they don’t tell anyone coughing to wear masks seats 30A-B were terrible during the flight no one wants to sit next to people coughing all around I don’t want to be sick traveling for work or get sick anytime it’s very upsetting the staff doesn’t take this stuff serious to tell them to wear masks when they see people coughing and sneezing

The seats are very small, that is all the staff did a good job.

Good food and entertainment. Poor choices for drinks. Sitting for 12 hours on the row by the restrooms, which do not recline, was a torture

Delayed 2 hours while stuck on the aircraft. If the luggage was properly loaded the first time we probably wouldn’t have been delayed at all

UA594 was delayed multiple times. I ended up getting picked up so I can make it in time for work 6AM on Monday, 7/6/2026

Horrific. They missed my connecting flight to San Diego. I didn’t get there until Monday at 9am when I had a mandatory court settlement conference scheduled at 6am since we had parties on the east coast. This caused many issues. All because United apparently forgot to hold the doors open until my flight landed that only had a 10 minute delay. This was the last flight to Southern California. So I couldn’t even rent a car to finish the trip. United cannot be trusted when traveling on specific days and times since weather didn’t have anything to do with the delays.

Was a pain having to leave the plane and reboard but glad the plane was fixed

Connecting flights were poor,especially in Naples.our Lufthansa air bus was a joke.way too small for that long of a flight.no room at all.couldn’t even get out of the seats to move around or go to the bathrooms.we thought we were getting an actual air bus,double decker.i will never fly that long in a plane like that again.kind of misleading to call it an air bus.we actually had more room on our buses that we used.

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

Lost connnection had to stayON in Chicago Was a mess

Booked economy through United - air canada treated it as standby and was almost refused boarding.

The seats on Lufthansa’s international business class on the A350-900 is the worst product in the market. Our chief purser was AMAZING though. She is the best FA I have had in many years.

I have very bad experience with United because Vince two weeks that I did not receive my luggage yet

Good and they are leaving at time and arriving on time

The flight attendants were wonderful - one man put my carry on in the bin for me. Very attentive service. Loved the blanket and pillow waiting for me in economy. Food was excellent which is a surprise given the reputation of any airline food. Wine was fine with the meals. Delighted with the new movies - flight went by very quickly. I would definitely fly Lufthansa again.

Generally good. Not their fault but the design of the Boeing 747 had seating supports directly in line with my legs. So my legs always had to straddle this support which caused body misallignment. Such poor design from Boeing. There was no USB port for me to charge my phone. The screen touch control was very poor.

Patrick and the whole crew were amazing! Hope to have this team for all my European trips.

Smooth flight with enough time for connection. Ran out of meal options. In-flight and gate staff were friendly and helpful. Good service overall.

They don’t give information on why a flight is delayed in a timely manner. Very frustrating.

The food was straight up bad not gonna lie, seats are uncomfortable so I had to re-adjust my self most of the time, delayed our arrival time by alot.

Wasn’t overbooked, so it was nice having an empty seat next to me. Appreciated the on time flight. Food was really bad though. Received stale vegetarian sandwich with just a slice of cheese and shredded carrots on it. Very strange and not tasty. I didn’t order a vegetarian meal either way of my trip but received all vegetarian meals because they said that’s all they have available.

We never made this flight due to the flight from Barcelona being delayed, which I have reviewed in a separate review. But I can tell you that the Delta Airlines flight that did get us home, I am extremely happy with them and their crew. The only one person that I would praise within the entire part of BA is the girl I spoke to in the call center in India. Who completely understood, was dedicated to a resolution and was a complete realist in the situation. Unlike some of the people who don’t care about the human element and stick you on a flight whenever. She got us home.

You're asking 2 different questions. The flight from Los Angeles to London (and from London to Faro) was on British Airways. Those flights were awful. The app didn't provide detailed information, the WiFi that I paid for didn't work, the form I had to fill out to re-enter the UK was not communicated clearly so I nearly missed my flight. British Airways is significantly behind every other airline I've traveled in every way. American Airlines flight form London to Los Angeles was great. In the future, I will avoid flying British Airways when I can.

Our section of the aircraft in premium economy was very cold. We asked the attendants twice to raise the heat but it never happened. Even with the blanket it was chilly for 10 1/2 hours

Waited until boarding started before saying there was no overhead luggage space on the plane.

It makes no sense for several types of drinks to already be out of stock in the middle of the flight.

Incredible. The upgrade to Business was a phenomenal way to end my trip, beyond grateful for the generosity and hospitality.

All service prior to the flight was terrible: online check-in not working, no customer service tel,, multiple airport scanners not working, A huge mess.

Service of the crews were great. Food on flight was very greasy, and salty.

Terrible, broken window and the blinded didn’t shut during the entire flight. Nobody could sleep

Horrible. Crew is not helpful. Lounge is sub standard and overcrowded. Getting to your plane is underwhelming “via a bus”. Worst experience I have had.

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