$72 Find Cheap Flights from Houston to Orange County

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Book Cheap Houston to Orange County Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Houston to Orange County 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 Houston to Orange County

Thu, Jan 8 - Sat, Jan 17
Southwest Logo
5:50 pm - 7:30 pmHOU-LGB
3h 40mnonstop
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11:50 am - 4:55 pmLGB-HOU
3h 05mnonstop
$204Southwest
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Tue, Feb 3 - Wed, Feb 11
Southwest Logo
5:50 pm - 7:30 pmHOU-LGB
3h 40mnonstop
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12:45 pm - 5:45 pmLGB-HOU
3h 00mnonstop
$217Southwest
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Sat, Jan 31 - Wed, Feb 25
Delta Logo
2:50 pm - 9:45 pmIAH-LGB
8h 55m1 stop
Delta Logo
7:00 am - 5:38 pmLGB-IAH
8h 38m1 stop
$217Delta
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Tue, Feb 3 - Wed, Feb 11
Delta Logo
9:54 am - 9:45 pmIAH-LGB
13h 51m2 stops
Delta Logo
1:05 pm - 9:44 pmLGB-IAH
6h 39m1 stop
$222Delta
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Thu, Jan 8 - Sat, Jan 17
Southwest Logo
11:15 am - 5:55 pmHOU-LGB
8h 40m1 stop
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11:50 am - 4:55 pmLGB-HOU
3h 05mnonstop
$224Southwest
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Sun, Jan 11 - Sun, Jan 18
Frontier Logo
6:45 am - 10:52 amIAH-SNA
6h 07m1 stop
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10:23 am - 8:33 pmSNA-IAH
8h 10m1 stop
$252Frontier
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Thu, Jan 1 - Thu, Jan 8
Frontier Logo
6:45 am - 12:35 pmIAH-SNA
7h 50m1 stop
Frontier Logo
3:06 pm - 7:37 pmSNA-IAH
26h 31m1 stop
$254Frontier
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Wed, Jan 14 - Sun, Jan 18
United Airlines Logo
2:22 pm - 8:42 pmIAH-SNA
8h 20m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
12:23 pm - 5:35 pmSNA-IAH
3h 12mnonstop
$255United Airlines
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Wed, Dec 10 - Tue, Dec 16
Spirit Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 10:44 amIAH-SNA
6h 44m1 stop
Spirit Airlines Logo
11:39 am - 11:58 pmSNA-IAH
10h 19m1 stop
$257Spirit Airlines
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Thu, Jan 8 - Sun, Jan 11
United Airlines Logo
7:50 pm - 9:42 pmIAH-SNA
3h 52mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
10:00 am - 8:32 pmSNA-IAH
8h 32m1 stop
$259United Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Houston to Orange County flights

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

What is the cheapest Houston to Orange County flight route?

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

The cheapest ticket to Orange County from Houston found in the last 72 hours was to Santa Ana, at $249 round-trip. The most popular route is from Houston George Bush Intcntl Airport (IAH) to Santa Ana (SNA), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $249.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Houston to Orange County?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Houston to Orange County, 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 Houston to Orange County is February, when tickets cost $165 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and November, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $244 and $242 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Houston to Orange County?

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

When flying from Houston to Orange County, you should consider leaving on a Friday and avoid Mondays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Houston, you’ll find the best rates on Fridays and the most expensive ones on Sundays.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Houston to Orange County?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Houston to Orange County, 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 Houston to Orange County, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 39% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 14 weeks before departure.

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Cheapest flight$72
Flight from Houston George Bush Airport to John Wayne (Santa Ana)

FAQs - booking Orange County flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Houston to Orange County?

    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 Houston to Orange County.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Houston to Orange County 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 Houston to Orange County?

    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 Houston to Orange County 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 Houston to Orange County?

    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 Houston to Orange County up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Orange County?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Orange County is generally in the morning, when round-trip flights cost $256 on average. Morning departures are around 73% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Orange County is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $942.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Houston to Orange County

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Houston to Orange County. 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 Houston to Orange County? 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 4256 reviews
7.0Food
8.0Comfort
7.5Entertainment
8.1Boarding
8.6Crew
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San Diego airport is brand new, spacious, airy and very smooth checkin at SW baggage drop.

10.0 ExcellentGordon, Nov 2025SAN - OAK
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San Diego airport is brand new, spacious, airy and very smooth checkin at SW baggage drop.

Ever since Southwest starting charging for bags, passengers don't want to pay to check their bags, so the gate agents have to beg people to check their roller bags now because there's "not enough space". This was a terrible business move by Southwest.

Delays delays delays. Late taking off, late landing, wait for a gate, etc.

Connecting flight is on time and boarding was a breeze!

Very smooth checking in our luggage with a super pleasant SW agent. I enjoyed a fun entertaining movie.

First time traveling on Southwest since bag fees were implemented. Usual good service. Just more expensive now.

Flight crew and cabin crew were great. I had to rearrange flights because my original flight was 3hrs delayed for weather, the rub is the flight I moved to boarded on time then we sat at the gate for 2 hours because scheduling stole our first officer for another flight, TWICE. Then our actual FO was an hour delayed. To make it worse my original flight went from a 3 hour delay to departing 15min EARLY. Just poor scheduling operations all around.

It was a perfect flight in all aspects! Both legs!

Boarding process, crew were good. But the seats were so uncomfortable that was all I could focus on. I literally had to sit forward so that all 3 of us could fit in row. I will try to avoid Southwest in the future for any flights over 60 minutes.

Great flight, 47 passengers on a 180 seat plane. Stewardess was pleasant and cheerful.

Seats had less pitch than a regional jet. Food was OK. Have to buy alcohol on US based carriers flying international. Boarding was a mess. Did not have bags but overhead space was gone quick. Would like to see the airlines enforce the one bag over and one bag under policy

Lately I like the planes have been exceptionally filthy. There’s lines of dust and dirt all across the ceiling in the vents, and the cracks in between the seats are literally full of food. It’s definitely not the quality of service that I was used to with United. I’m also very disappointed with the Wi-Fi! All I wanna do is knock out a few work jobs while I’m trapped in my seat And it spools so bad. They did provide me with a refund, but the process of getting that refund is so complicated. It’s unfortunate.

Crew was excellent. This was a relatively long flight though and had very little leg room, and no entertainment.

The newer screen was super cool and had the option to watch many different shows or movies. Crew was polite and helpful. However again, many children screaming bloody murder and kicking my seat, and parents doing nothing about it as usual.

Plane was crowded and even when we hit altitude, the plane was hot, not enough air flow.

Flight was delayed and missed my connection Lufthansa didn’t respond.

the delay for 3 hours was understandable due to weather conditions but the flight should’ve provided some on flight compensations or at least provide more food.

United could have one single once of customer service. No human United employee would help me with the invalid mileage plus number, they said I had to speak with the computer.

Overall it was good. I missed my connection but I was put on another flight.

Although the flight was delayed the crew and the flight itself were very good. Couldn't fault anything and after the disappointment of being abandoned in the US by BA it was a welcome relief to travel with United

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 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!

There's nothing I liked about it. For first off I scheduled this trip two weeks in advance then they delayed my flight which messed up my whole trip. So I scheduled it for the following weekend thinking there won't be a delay and guess what as soon as I got to the airport we said in the airplane on the tarmac for an hour and a half. Not only was it delayed I missed my connecting flight meaning I had to stay the night at Dallas-Fort Worth airport sleeping on the floor. I will tell you this I will never fly American airlines ever again I have had nothing but horrible experience with them and I just throw money at them

The stewardess hit me with the food kart twice on the head and didn't say I'm sorry once. The same stewardess gave me a warm Apple Juice with No ice. The Flight was delayed for Departure 6 times, starting from 2:36pm, finally taking off 7:50pm. I was late picking up my child from the sitter by 3 hours.

Did not get the seat I selected and paid for.

I stopped flying spirit as much because they are crooks and thieves. It's not like other airlines where you can at least get credits they just take your money.

The plane was freezing and everyone had on their winter coats. I pulled out my sweaters out of my carryon to cover myself and put on an extra pair of socks. They offered NO FREE drinks or snacks on a 6 hour flight. The seats don’t have plugs or charges or any form of entertainment- so I just played my one downloaded game on my phone because I couldn’t sleep because I was too cold. Miserable flight though we landed safely.

Always comes in handy when I want a quick weekend getaway.

My luggage didn’t arrive at LAX, so that wasn’t a good experience.

I was never aware that I had to pay $100 per luggage to them on the plane that are simply carry-ons. This is discriminatory and I’m going to be alerting my entire family and friends and my Instagram following up over 75,000 of this issue and misunderstanding, including mismanaging.

Cancelled my flight last minute and did not help me rebook. It was a horrible experience.

Spirit is low fare air line. Food also cost you. No free food.

Everyone was kind for the most part. I did travel with children and paid for seats and even then it was not as suitable. I tried calling their customer service prior to check in and I was told they couldn't help me because I didn't purchase my tickets with them.

I think the staff was nice. They took time to explain safety protocols. Boarding was great. They started early and our flight left a little early which was convenient. Having free games to play would have been better

Late departure by 1:45min. No explanation why. During boarding inconsistent policing of their baggage rules. Before takeoff and lamdimg strange obsession with window shade and armrest positions. Don't know why they care. 15 min tarmac delay on arrival, they blamed airport congestion but we were the o lh flight waiting, it was clear it was due to poor staff planning (only one ground crew to receive airplanes and multiple arrivals) Got there but was rrally lame the whole trip.

Terrible. The canceled my entire flight when I requested a refund for a trip frontier canceled trip one way.

i was unable to check in the flight. refund requested

I think Frontier was very good at communication. Their app worked very well. Loading was great and the flight was nice and easy.

Great for the price. No wifi or entertainment, but gate agents and crew were fantastic and we boarded quickly and left on time.

Decent clean onboard experience. Okay discount airline experience. Unfortunately, any customer service interactions are difficult and unhelpful. There is no service. Also, a premium seat only gets you premium boarding if you line up first. Once they start general boarding you must go to the back of the line. Not very premium

The crew was mostly okay. The flight attendant who answered our questions was curt and unhelpful unfortunately. He seemed upset and I understand having off days.

We were delayed three times ,and that destroyed my plans, and reservations

Very bad! No good service delayed my second connection flight

They canceled flight. Hard to believe there was even a plane incoming for us to get on

Book with frontier airlines with the mentality that they'll cancel your flight, kick you off and lose your luggage. Anything besides that is a win. Compare prices with other airlines (to include luggage) and if frontier is still worth it, book it but know all of their policies.

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