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Cheap Flights from Phoenix to Costa Mesa (PHX-LAX)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Phoenix to Costa Mesa 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 Phoenix to Costa Mesa

Thu, Sep 4 - Tue, Sep 9
Frontier Logo
7:00 am - 8:30 amPHX-LAX
1h 30mnonstop
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9:15 am - 10:50 amLAX-PHX
1h 35mnonstop
$78Frontier
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Thu, Sep 18 - Sat, Sep 27
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7:00 am - 8:30 amPHX-LAX
1h 30mnonstop
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9:30 am - 11:05 amLAX-PHX
1h 35mnonstop
$79Frontier
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Sat, Jul 12 - Sat, Jul 19
Frontier Logo
6:05 am - 7:34 amPHX-LAX
1h 29mnonstop
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2:24 pm - 4:04 pmLAX-PHX
1h 40mnonstop
$80Frontier
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Mon, Aug 25 - Tue, Sep 2
Delta Logo
9:25 am - 10:58 amPHX-LAX
1h 33mnonstop
Delta Logo
10:05 am - 11:36 amLAX-PHX
1h 31mnonstop
$107Delta
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Tue, Sep 2 - Wed, Sep 3
Southwest Logo
7:00 am - 8:25 amPHX-LAX
1h 25mnonstop
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4:15 pm - 9:10 pmLAX-PHX
4h 55m1 stop
$116Southwest
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Sat, Aug 9 - Tue, Aug 12
Delta Logo
7:00 am - 8:30 amPHX-LAX
1h 30mnonstop
Delta Logo
2:00 pm - 3:30 pmLAX-PHX
1h 30mnonstop
$122Delta
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Thu, Sep 4 - Thu, Sep 25
Southwest Logo
3:10 pm - 8:20 pmPHX-LAX
5h 10m1 stop
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5:10 am - 9:00 amLAX-PHX
3h 50m1 stop
$127Southwest
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Tue, Jul 8 - Tue, Aug 5
American Airlines Logo
4:49 pm - 9:08 pmPHX-LAX
4h 19m1 stop
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4:32 pm - 6:00 pmLAX-PHX
1h 28mnonstop
$181American Airlines
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Wed, Jun 25 - Thu, Aug 14
American Airlines Logo
1:48 pm - 3:09 pmPHX-LAX
1h 21mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
6:05 am - 7:34 amLAX-PHX
1h 29mnonstop
$186American Airlines
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Thu, Nov 13 - Thu, Nov 20
United Airlines Logo
8:50 pm - 9:23 pmPHX-LAX
1h 33mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
7:14 pm - 9:44 pmLAX-PHX
1h 30mnonstop
$218United Airlines
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Low seasonFebruary
High seasonOctober
Cheapest flight$41
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 12% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 5% lower on average.
Flight from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to Los Angeles

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Flights from Phoenix to Costa Mesa: the best tips from KAYAK users' own experiences

Insights shared by verified travelers who flew the route from Phoenix to Costa Mesa 
Verified travelerFlew with American AirlinesPHX-LAXJan 2025
Southwest seems to board and unload about as smooth as any airline - carry on items seem to work as smooth as any airline I have used. Southwest also does not charge to check bags which seems to encourage people to check bags instead of bring an enormous carry on item that does not fit well in the cabin.
KFlew with SouthwestPHX-LAXMay 2024
Book with a long gap if you have a connection on another airline. My flight from Phoenix was only 1 hr long but there was an over 2 hr delay in boarding. Luckily I allowed a 6 hour gap between flights for my other flight leaving overseas or I would have missed it. Many people like me fly one flight to LA which has a lot more international departures because it’s a lot cheaper to break the flights up than to book them together . So it’s important that flights are somewhat on time especially between different flights not connected with one booking.

FAQs for booking flights from Phoenix to Costa Mesa

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport to Costa Mesa?

    When flying out of Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport you’ll be using Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl. Costa Mesa does not have its own airport so you’ll be flying into nearby Los Angeles airport, which is 34.9 mi away.

  • How long does a flight from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport to Costa Mesa take?

    Direct flights cover the 370 miles separating Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport and Costa Mesa in about 1h 20m.

  • How many flights are there between Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport and Costa Mesa?

    105 direct flights run between Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport and Costa Mesa on a daily basis. On average, there are about 741 departures each week.

  • What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly between Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport and Costa Mesa?

    Consider leaving on a Thursday and avoid Tuesdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport, you’ll find the best rates on Thursdays and the most expensive ones on Wednesdays.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Phoenix to Costa Mesa?

    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 Phoenix to Costa Mesa.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Phoenix to Costa Mesa?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Costa Mesa from Phoenix 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 Phoenix to Costa Mesa?

    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 Costa Mesa with an airline and back to Phoenix with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Phoenix to Costa Mesa?

    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 Costa Mesa from Phoenix up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport to Costa Mesa?

    In the last 72 hours, the cheapest one-way ticket between Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport and Costa Mesa found on KAYAK was with Spirit Airlines for $41. Frontier offered a round-trip connection from $78 and Spirit Airlines from $104.

Top tips for finding cheap flights from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport to Costa Mesa

  • There is no airport in Costa Mesa. Instead, you’ll be flying into Los Angeles Airport when flying between Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport and Costa Mesa.
  • The cheapest flight from Phoenix to Costa Mesa was found 84 days before departure, on average.
  • Book at least 1 week before departure in order to get a below-average price.
  • High season is considered to be May, June and July. The cheapest month to fly is August.

Top 5 airlines serving Phoenix to Costa Mesa

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Phoenix to Costa Mesa? 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 4287 reviews
7.1Food
8.2Boarding
8.0Comfort
7.6Entertainment
8.6Crew
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It was a perfect flight in all aspects! Both legs!

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Apr 2025LGB - SMF
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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.

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 hell hole of an airport. It is the new LaGuardia. Everything Cobbled together. Security gates closed. Terri directional signage

Delayed 4 hours due to mechanical issues. No mention of compensation for being over 3 hours late

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

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.

Delta is a premier airline so my expectations are most always met.

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.

Great. Flight departed early and arrived early. Deplaning and baggage claim ww were quick.

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

The gate was too far away for the connecting flight

Generally good. The aisles have gotten narrower which can slow down boarding. Flight crew was great! Healthier complimentary snacks would be appreciated. Due to earthquake in San Francisco we had to circle in air space for a bit but then had a smooth landing. I laud the flight crew for their patience ;)

The agents was very rude and they charged me $50 for a carry-on bag saying that it was too big and then I saw someone going on a plane with the same size bag as me

For the most part united was a good experience, how ever when they came by with the snacks and water, they completely passed by my wife and I. As we were in separate rows. On a 5 hr flight we were not offered water

Fantastic crew. Flight was delayed at last minute but we were given updates every 20 minutes and the crew was so friendly and considerate. I miss the touch screens on the back of the seats, wish they would bring that back though.

Awful. Worst airline I have ever been on. Crew were among the rudest people I have ever dealt with. United staff members were rude and disrespectful. My flight was delayed, causing me to miss a connecting flight. I understand things happen, but when staff start lying about what actually happened, that is when I have an issue. Just be honest, really it isn’t that hard. I’m being very honest with this review and I don’t find this difficult what so ever. In fact, because of United Airlines, my Christmas holiday was off to a really rocky start. As someone who has traveled across the world, it has only been United that I have had a truly awful experience.

Overall, a good experience. The food, however, was subpar. The breakfast was a joke.

First world problems, but still… We were seated in first class and asked for a cocktail on a very short, 50 minute flight. After our drink order was taken, a half hour went by, and we noticed that every other person in the small plane had been served except for us. We got up to ask about it, the drinks finally came, then were taken away three minutes later since the flight was so short. Really strange situation, on the other hand, we were in Utah.

Boarding took forever, the plane was cramped and cold, and the seatbelt song came on constantly throughout the red eye flight with a loud pre-recorded message playing each time

Wonderful crew and early arrival to our destination. It was so nice to have free wifi access and movies too. Thank you!

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

Plane was pretty clean, staff was friendly and helpful, flight left about on time arrived early. Took a long time to board and get off the plane - carry on items didn't have enough room so people had to move all around to find places.

Service in first class no longer exists on American Airlines .

My seat was very worn. Otherwise I had an excellent flight

Boarding can be more efficiently done by having the back row passengers board first. This way, the other people do the have to wait for front row passengers to load their luggage in the overhead cabins. Food is simply pathetic for the price I paid. Cleanliness is simply poor; my seat was full of crumps.

Always a great flight on AA. PHX to DFW and vise versa is always going to be a pretty full flight but the crew handles it phenomenally.

Plane was down graded and I lost my uncharged exit row with more leg room. No mention or offer of refund from podium. Flight attendant was nice to explain this happens often and that I could request a refund via online form submission. I did this and have heard nothing back.

Horrendous. I do not recommend Frontier. The passengers lack manners and decency, and the flight attendants lack professionalism. If I wasn’t in a bind to fly with 48 hours notice for a job interview, I would not have selected a flight with Frontier and I never plan to fly with them in the future.

The seats were hard molded plastic covered in plastic vinyl. And the scam to charge people extra to sit together. Don’t they know we can just ask someone to trade seats. And watching the staff separate young children from parents… super classy. We had to guilt them into offering up our seats. This companies policies suck. Don’t give them your money.

Everything went as planned. Crew was great. Seats were still not that comfortable.

Early arrival. Great landing. Pilot updates. Too cold in plane.

No frills for sure. No gate announcements about flight delay, not even water to drink on the flight.

My experience with the phoenix airport was terrible, the personnel lay the ticket counter charged me for a carry on that fit in the carry on size box, and the two women I spoke with were terribly rude and not willing to help.,,, there was one lady “candy” on the flight crew that was amazing and is the only reason I stayed on the flight at all, because the other stewards helping people to get seated on the plane were terrible

The plane was clean, the crew was friendly and helpful. It’s a low cost airline so there was no food, drinks or in flight entertainment but we didn’t expect any of these things. In the room for improvement department, they should install USB ports in seats to charge mobile devices.

I was surprised that all baggage, including carry on, were charged. Each additional bag went up in cost. Really disappointed in the additional costs.

I ended up paying $70+ dollars to for a carryon because the website is confusing and misleading. I now realize I did not need to pay that. I request a refund. I will pay extra to other airlines and not fly Frontier again.

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