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$346 Find Cheap Flights from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara

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Cheap Flights from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara (MKE-SBA)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara 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 Milwaukee to Santa Barbara

Tue, Oct 21 - Fri, Oct 24
American Airlines Logo
6:13 am - 11:32 amMKE-SBA
7h 19m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
4:45 pm - 12:20 amSBA-MKE
5h 35m1 stop
$346American Airlines
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Tue, Oct 21 - Fri, Oct 24
Delta Logo
2:04 pm - 8:08 pmMKE-SBA
8h 04m1 stop
Delta Logo
5:05 pm - 9:27 amSBA-MKE
14h 22m2 stops
$351Delta
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Tue, Oct 21 - Fri, Oct 24
American Airlines Logo
11:33 am - 6:29 pmMKE-SBA
8h 56m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
1:01 pm - 11:56 pmSBA-MKE
8h 55m2 stops
$356American Airlines
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Mon, Sep 15 - Wed, Sep 24
Southwest Logo
6:20 pm - 10:25 pmMKE-SBA
6h 05m1 stop
Southwest Logo
2:10 pm - 9:45 pmSBA-MKE
5h 35m1 stop
$358Southwest
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Mon, Sep 15 - Wed, Sep 24
United Airlines Logo
2:47 pm - 11:59 pmMKE-SBA
11h 12m2 stops
United Airlines Logo
5:30 am - 1:27 pmSBA-MKE
5h 57m1 stop
$360United Airlines
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Mon, Sep 15 - Wed, Sep 24
Southwest Logo
3:15 pm - 10:25 pmMKE-SBA
9h 10m2 stops
Southwest Logo
11:00 am - 9:45 pmSBA-MKE
8h 45m2 stops
$395Southwest
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Thu, Aug 21 - Wed, Aug 27
Delta Logo
12:15 pm - 8:08 pmMKE-SBA
9h 53m1 stop
Delta Logo
12:40 pm - 9:35 pmSBA-MKE
6h 55m1 stop
$430Delta
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Thu, Aug 21 - Wed, Aug 27
American Airlines Logo
7:10 am - 4:09 pmMKE-SBA
10h 59m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
6:20 am - 9:48 pmSBA-MKE
13h 28m2 stops
$447American Airlines
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Tue, Oct 21 - Fri, Oct 24
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 1:07 pmMKE-SBA
9h 07m2 stops
United Airlines Logo
6:27 pm - 10:11 amSBA-MKE
13h 44m3 stops
$451United Airlines
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Thu, Aug 21 - Wed, Aug 27
American Airlines Logo
7:10 am - 4:09 pmMKE-SBA
10h 59m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
12:14 pm - 9:48 pmSBA-MKE
7h 34m1 stop
$462American Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Milwaukee to Santa Barbara flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

How much is a round-trip flight from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to Santa Barbara on a Wednesday and more expensive on a Sunday. On your return trip to Milwaukee, you should consider flying back on a Monday, and avoid Thursdays for better deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara, 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 Milwaukee to Santa Barbara is November, where tickets cost $311 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are March and February, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $606 and $566 respectively.

Good to know

Low seasonJuly
Cheapest flight$346
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 1% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 8% lower on average.
Flight from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara

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Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara 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 Milwaukee to Santa Barbara

  • What is the cheapest flight from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara was $346 for a round-trip ticket.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Milwaukee and Santa Barbara?

    No, a passport isn't needed to fly from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara. However, local authorities might ask for an official ID.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

    On your way to Santa Barbara, you’ll fly out from Milwaukee-Mitchell. You’ll be landing at Santa Barbara.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

    oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between Milwaukee and Santa Barbara, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara, Southwest or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara are Southwest and Delta. With an average price for the route of $496 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 $416 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

    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 Milwaukee to Santa Barbara.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Santa Barbara from Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

    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 Santa Barbara with an airline and back to Milwaukee with another airline. Booking your flights between Milwaukee and SBA 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 Milwaukee to Santa Barbara?

    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 Santa Barbara from Milwaukee up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Reviews of the top 4 airlines serving from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara. 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.
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8.0
SouthwestOverall score based on 4246 reviews
8.0Comfort
8.6Crew
7.5Entertainment
7.0Food
8.1Boarding
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Very smooth checking in our luggage with a super pleasant SW agent. I enjoyed a fun entertaining movie.

10.0 ExcellentGordon, Jul 2025GEG - OAK
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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.

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.

Great experience flying Southwest. The crew was really kind and helpful, and very friendly with our toddler.

Plane late from DC to Austin 30 minutes. Crew made up much of the time enroute to San Diego.

Fine, but how to board on SW versus othrr airlines, is just lame. Goood staff though and all was solid otherwise.

Was as expected. Crowed planes. Too many carryons delaying takeoff. But the ride only took an hour and saved me a lot of time SFO is a not a great airport.

I will be flying again Southwest Airlines. Friendly crew, comfortable and affordable.

Food was surprisingly good but the WiFi was not great

My flight was extremely cold. I had a jacket and a cover was left in each seat. The cover was extremely thin and I have a disability, fibromyalgia and arthrithis and AC air is the worst. I closed my vent and my husbands vent and it still was frigid. I asked the attendant if I could get another cover and she quickly almost dismissively and totally unconcerned stating, (I quote) (one per chair) and walked off so quickly that I didn't get a chance to explain to her that I literally have adisability. I didnt want to make a seen so I set on that flight for over 5 hours in pain, joints locking up and extremely uncomfortable. When my fibromyalgia flares up my joints not only ache but they will lock up also and it takes me days to get back to my regular self even though I take medication for it. I felt like it would not have hurt anyone at all for her to just give me an extra cover because I'm sure they have all types of medical issues in people that fly every day.

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

1. when we went to check in, our 2 first class seats had been CANCELED and the flight was sold out. This was done without our prior knowledge. It was all we could do to restore one first class seat for my wife and I flew economy. 2, Our flight home was scheduled to leave at 10:30 pm. Due to tsunami warnings, the roads were closed and our flight status was uncertain as to whether it would leave as scheduled. It was announced that it would now leave at 11:20 pm and the roads were now open since the tsunami had come and gone. We made a mad dash to the airport and checked in. Delays were announced at 12:30 pm, 1:30 am, 2:30 am and at 3:30 am it was canceled. Since this was a flight due to natural (tsunami) causes, there was no compensation. We were told to return at 1:00 pm the next day and our baggage would be kept on the plane since the same plane was going to leave at 1:00 pm. We had to return to our hotel for the rest of the night. The same plane did not leave at 1:00 pm and our baggage was gone! All in all, it was a miserable performance by UA. Information was hard to obtain and no one knew what was going on and what was going to happen. Hundreds of passengers slept on the floor, chairs, etc. No food and no water was made available to the passengers. It was a situation where UA could care less what was going on. As a one million mile flyer, I had not experienced anything like this before and it was hugely disappointing!

Boarded plane and then delayed 1.5 hours while on the plane

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

Amazing food, great staff, with one noticable detail missing ...but no seat entertainment in any of aircraft ...I am not a fan

Boarding gate in Honolulu was staffed with a great clerk with a soothing voice despite the flight delay of over an hour. Flight attendants in the plane were all grumpy, not pleasant looking bunch. Their sour attitude showed throughout the flight. Inly able to get a select few movies started. Most of the movie links in the “free entertainment” did not work.

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.

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.

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

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