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Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Fort Lauderdale 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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Tue, Jul 22 - Tue, Jul 29
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Fri, Jul 18 - Wed, Jul 23
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Wed, Jul 16 - Mon, Jul 21
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Fri, Aug 22 - Sun, Aug 24
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Tue, Jul 22 - Tue, Jul 29
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Fri, Jul 18 - Mon, Jul 21
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Tue, Jul 29 - Sat, Aug 2
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Wed, Aug 6 - Sun, Aug 10
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Expert advice for your flight from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego

 
Snippets provided in this section are AI-generated based on a summarization of KAYAK-commissioned articles. The articles are presented as-is, for general informational purposes only, and may not be up-to-date. The opinions contained in the articles are original to the author and reflect their authentic experience, which may vary significantly from the experience of others.
KAYAK teamed up with top travel experts to share the best tips for your journey.
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Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines’ 20-minute baggage guarantee offers compensation if bags are delayed.


Alaska’s Premium Class includes extra legroom and complimentary drinks on flights over 350 miles.

JetBlue

JetBlue offers free gate-to-gate Wi-Fi and live TV, enhancing your in-flight experience.


JetBlue’s Even More Space upgrade provides up to 7” extra legroom and priority boarding.

Read more about JetBlueby Harriet Baskas
Airports
FLL

Check the FLL app or website to confirm your terminal before arriving, as curbside signage can be hard to see.

Read more about FLLby Blane Bachelor
SAN

The Route 992 bus is the cheapest way to reach Downtown San Diego from SAN, running every 15 minutes.

Read more about SANby Brandon Schultz
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Harriet Baskas

Harriet Baskas

Harriet is an award-winning journalist who is happiest in an airport or an unusual museum. Her stories about airports, air travel, and the business of travel have appeared on NBC News, CNBC, USA TODAY, The Points Guy and other outlets. She is the creator of the StuckatTheAirport.com blog and the author of nine books. When not out on the road or exploring the latest airport amenities, she’s home in Seattle getting ready for the next adventure.

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Brandon Schultz

Brandon Schultz

Brandon Schultz is an award-winning food and travel writer based in New York City. His work has appeared in Forbes, AAA, Thrillist, Travel + Leisure, and The Daily Meal, among many others, and he is the author of 6 books, including 3 cookbooks.

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Blane Bachelor

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Blane Bachelor

Blane Bachelor is a journalist and editor specializing in travel and aviation who writes regularly for top global outlets. Born and raised in Florida, Blane has worked and lived in four countries, including the Netherlands, where she’s currently based with her family. Her favorite way to get to know a new destination is by running or riding a bike around town – or hearing a spooky ghost story about local history. She will always choose the window seat.

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Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

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Planning a trip from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego? KAYAK’s data-powered insights will help you find cheap flights. Learn the best time to fly, how early to book your ticket, and other tips to secure great prices.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If you are looking for a flight deal from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego, look for departures on Thursdays and avoid leaving on a Monday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from San Diego, Monday is the cheapest day to fly and Friday is the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego, 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 Fort Lauderdale to San Diego is January, where tickets cost $258 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and February, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $415 and $398 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego, 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 Fort Lauderdale to San Diego, you should book around 2 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 15 weeks before departure.

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Low seasonApril
High seasonJuly
Cheapest flight$53
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 7% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 4% increase in price.
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When to book flights from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego 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 Fort Lauderdale to San Diego

  • Is it possible to rent a car at SAN?

    If you want to rent a car at SAN, you can do so, as the airport features an off-site car rental facility with counters for car rentals like Alamo, Avis, Enterprise, Dollar, and National. This facility is quite a distance from the airport’s terminals. Hence, to get to it, you’ll board a free shuttle.

  • What is the quickest way to get to FLL from downtown Fort Lauderdale?

    If you want to journey from downtown Fort Lauderdale to FLL as quickly as you can, you should catch a cab, as cabs are the fastest public transportation means you can use to cover the distance between the two points. If speed is not your main concern but rather cost, you should travel aboard a bus, as the buses that serve this route cheaper.

  • Where can I board my flight to San Diego in Fort Lauderdale apart from FLL?

    Apart from FLL, Miami International Airport (MIA) and Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) also serve Fort Lauderdale. This being the case, if you don’t want to board a flight to San Diego at FLL, you can opt for one at either of these other airports.

  • Does SAN have an on-site hotel?

    SAN has no on-site hotel. However, this airport is extremely close to hotels like TownePlace Suites San Diego Airport, Holiday Inn Express San Diego Airport – Old Town, and Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina.

  • What is the cheapest flight from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego was $53 for a one-way ticket and $143 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Fort Lauderdale and San Diego?

    No

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego?

    Alaska Airlines, JetBlue, Hawaiian Airlines, Delta, and American Airlines offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the Fort Lauderdale to San Diego flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego?

    The Boeing 737 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Fort Lauderdale to San Diego flight route.

  • What is the most popular layover when flying to San Diego from Fort Lauderdale?

    Dallas is the most popular layover city among KAYAK users traveling from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego?

    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 Fort Lauderdale to San Diego.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San Diego from Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale with another airline. Booking your flights between Fort Lauderdale and SAN 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 Fort Lauderdale to San Diego?

    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 Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale to San Diego

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $169 or less one-way and $458 or less round-trip.
  • Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) has tedious security checkpoints. Passengers have missed their flights after being held up at these checkpoints. To avoid finding yourself in such a scenario, on the day you’re to fly to San Diego, you should get to the airport at least 1h 30min prior to your flight.
  • As you wait for your flight at FLL, you can get food, as this airport features numerous dining options. In Terminal 1, you can eat at restaurants like Air Margaritaville Restaurant, Whiskey River, and Offerdahl’s Off-The-Grill. In Terminal 2, you can enjoy food from Torn Basil or Flash Fire Pizza, while in Terminal 3, you can sample quality dishes at Harvest Grounds, Golden Bear Gill, or Chef Allen’s 2 Go.
  • If you plan on parking your car at FLL until you get back from San Diego, you can do that, as the airport offers several long-term parking options. Within the airport’s grounds, you can get long-term parking spots at the Hibiscus Garage, Curbside Valet, and the Overflow Lot. Outside the airport’s grounds, you can get long-term parking at Park 24/7, Discount Parking FLL, or Gold Coast Airport parking, all of which are within the airport’s two-mile radius.
  • Before departing San Diego International Airport (SAN), you should check out one of the locations under Be Relax Spa. Both are in Terminal 2. One is near gate 26, while the other is near gate 36. In any of these locations, you’re bound to enjoy top-notch services, given that they both pride themselves in having well-trained and experienced professionals.
  • In case you need help at SAN, you seek assistance from one of the Volunteer Airport Ambassadors scattered all over the airport. Spotting one such individual is rather easy, as they all wear green polo shirts with Airport Information printing on the back.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego. 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 Fort Lauderdale 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.
8.0
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 10000 reviews
7.1Entertainment
7.1Food
8.1Boarding
8.5Crew
7.8Comfort
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Good experience, although it was a little cramped being a tall person. Otherwise everything went smoothly and professionally though

8.0 ExcellentTim, Jun 2025SEA - SAN
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Good experience, although it was a little cramped being a tall person. Otherwise everything went smoothly and professionally though

Big delay of over 7 hours on next leg of trip with Alaska. Would have been nice to have food or something

Horrible! No blanket or pillow available! We had bulkhead seats but the seats were worn out and no cushion old. No meal or even a sandwich for our 5 hour flight just a little bag of pretzels. Crabby attendant female with long brown hair. We will not book Alaska Airlines again

I do wish the the actual airplane I flew on was bigger. But, I made it work.

I loved that we boarded orderly and quickly, that I had an opportunity to check my bag free at the gate, that there was plenty of seat/leg room, there was smooth takeoff and landing, the attendants were pleasant and helpful, and that we arrived on time!!

We were in first class. Food was surprisingly good. Boarding was easy. Seats were lumpy. No video screen ...really? Service was good. Phone support was good

The staff and crew were excellent. The entire flight process was so friendly and smooth.

flight was canceled. don't cancel flights if you want a better score.

Missed connection due to waiting on tarmac for gate. Rebooking took 30 minutes in line with 2 people in line in front. Horrible inefficient careless staff.

The flight was canceled and very little help given at the check in desk. Everyone at the desk says: just go on the app and see how they rebooked you. I mean come on it’s embarrassing customer 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.

There are 4 flights in consecutive gates with about the same departure time. Two flights were boarding at the same time. One was delayed or boarding would be happening at the same time. I am not sure what Delta and LAX need to do to have a better layout at the end of Terminal 2

5 hours of delay that could've been much shorter if Delta had taken the 1 hour delay they imposed on the flight before boarding to run any of the plane checks required for flight to find the hydraulic issue that required nearly 3 hours to fix. $24 of meal credit buys a sandwich and a soft drink. Poor communication within the terminal about what gate we'd be re-boarding from and when we'd be re-boarding.

The entertainment and wifi mostly didn't work on this flight.

Terrible entertainment system - kept freezing and audio kept cutting out. Snacks were mediocre at best for a 5 hour flight.

I am still upset that my bag was lost on a recent trip to Rome ; we were inconvenienced and out €150 Euros ; delta has refused to reimburse us

This had nothing to do with Delta… The flights were on time and flawless. The service was excellent. We purchased seats in (aisle/middle) comfort plus since this was a cross country flight. Unfortunately, the woman seated at the window was 300+ pounds and, as might be expected, covered up about a third of the middle seat also. there was absolutely nothing that Delta could have done about that… I just don’t know what the answer should be. If you purchase a seat, you should should be able to use the entire seat and not just the portion that someone else is not sitting/oozing in. Disappointing…there should be something that could be done….I'm just not sure what solution could be.

Seats are much much more comfortable than United, which is what I usually fly

If I pay extra for "comfort+" I expect leg room where I can stretch my legs. I was seated with an attendant's seat blocking my feet. Knee space was fine but my feet had less room than the non-"comfort+" seats. Also, don't go cheap on food when you have flights of 3+ hours. It's insulting.

Only one side of the heafphone jack work. Crew was friendly and helpful.

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.

My flight was delayed a very short period of time but they did not hold my connecting flight to San Diego, also through United. So they closed the doors before we got off our plane. They would only have to help the door open for another five to ten minutes. So I missed a court deadline for a manditory mediation settlement conference for my client. I had to get an associate to be there in person and be on the phone with him relaying what he needs to do the entire time. The court was very upset with me and so was my client. United cannot be trusted.

We were given vouchers we couldn’t use with a 5.5 hour delay

Really good 😊 the woman at the gate entrance was a little rude checking in our carry-on but i dont think she worked for the airline, she worked for the airport at sacramento, other than that amazing.

Boarding was mayhem. Late boarding by 15 minutes because of lack of staff (missing 1 flight attendant. We had to wait for an arrival of another plane before we could board). Flight was a little rough, but cannot blame on airlines.

Great experience…left a bit behind schedule but made up fir that in the air and landed 10 minutes early 😁

United out of SFO is having issues with catering so none of our meals were loaded on the plane and no offer of compensation for our tickets purchased was offered.

A bit rush for transit. Food and entertainment are not available

Multiple delays and not straight answer from the United team

The gate was too far away for the connecting flight

Spend hours delayed with no food, water anything sitting on the aieplane with no ability to eat or use the restroom. My entire experience was the absolute worst. I will never fly jet Blue again.

It would have been nice if they had offered more than one set of snacks

Flight was delayed several 3 hours - no reason was given and no communication what so ever.

No overhead baggage room even though I was seated in row 2. Consequently had to check in my carry on bag. Baggage carousel was jammed. Took 45 min to get my bag.

Cancelled flight with no specific instructions to get a boarding pass for another flight. The whole flight of people were in line for an hour because there was only 1 person to help at the desk. This was unusual for JetBlue.

Except for the 28 minute delay leaving and the earlier reschedule to a later takeoff time the flight was good.

Loved the leg room and tvs screens on the seats and free WiFi. Wish the price was lower and could save by rebooking

The flight was delayed for 4 hours. Once onboard the crew was wonderful.

I rate it is good we had a 4-hour travel delay at one point but JetBlue gave out food vouchers and travel points credits for another flight so they try to make up for it

Communication with the customer and stay is important. Staff off with a minor inconvenience but it worked out of course. Also this was a very old Mint Class plane. They snuck this one in on us. The updated aircraft are much better.

This was a horrible experience. For a first class experience, my chair was held together by 3M tape - and I have a photo. The crew weren’t very attentive, somewhat dismissive and forgot my drink and snack, the chair reclined about 3 inches on a 6-hour cross country flight. I was also not informed that there was no lounge available in Newark airport because of renovations, so all around this was one of the worst experiences and I would actively avoid both American and Alaska Air going forward.

Boarding was very efficient. Everyone got on board and we got on our way very quickly. It was frustrating that the entertainment app was not functioning properly. I was not able to activate some of the movies offered. The crew on this flight appears to be pretty grumpy. They had no smile on their faces. I felt like they were doing us a favor for being there.

Loved the staff, boarding and drink options! Wish the comfort of the seat could have been better nevertheless

Honestly, I haven’t flown American in years, probably due to the pandemic and my being unable to travel for certain periods in the last two years, but it was a good experience to dig out or obtain a new American Airlines account after many years of traveling for business with American in the past.

Long 5 hour and 45 min flight and only one drink service and cookie snack

One bottle of water and a package of cookies for comfort plus. We had to literally beg a flight attendant for an extra bottle of water later in the flight due to feeling dehydrated.

Crew professional. Easy bag drop off. On time. Good entertainment.

Flight boarded from Gate 39 at OGG, the farthest gate in the terminal. There were no Hawaiian themed amenities for the flight. The first class service was mediocre at best; I received not special welcome or recognition as an executive platinum member of American Advantage program. The flight attendants were more concerned with their cell phones than saying "thank you" to the passengers as we disembarked. Fortunately, the flight arrived at LAX a few minutes early.

They have lost any customer service care and support. Terrible airline now and been for awhile.

Bigger seats. Board back to front! Disembark front to back!

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