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Cheap Flights from Pittsburgh to Costa Rica

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
San José
San José1 stop$304
Liberia
Liberia2 stops$351
San José
San José1 stop$304
Liberia
Liberia2 stops$351

Book Cheap Pittsburgh to Costa Rica Plane Tickets

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

Mon, May 25 - Thu, May 28
American Airlines Logo
6:15 am - 11:50 am
PIT
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SJO
7h 35m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 5:24 pm
SJO
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PIT
9h 24m
1 stop
$304American Airlines
Fri, May 8 - Fri, May 15
American Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 9:36 pm
PIT
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SJO
16h 36m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
12:10 pm - 11:59 pm
SJO
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PIT
9h 49m
1 stop
$310American Airlines
Mon, May 25 - Thu, May 28
American Airlines Logo
6:15 am - 11:50 am
PIT
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SJO
7h 35m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 6:17 pm
SJO
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PIT
10h 17m
2 stops
$339American Airlines
Thu, Jul 2 - Mon, Jul 6
American Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 10:38 pm
PIT
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SJO
18h 38m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
2:02 pm - 12:16 am
SJO
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PIT
8h 14m
1 stop
$340American Airlines
Mon, May 18 - Wed, May 27
American Airlines Logo
6:04 am - 7:07 pm
PIT
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SJO
15h 03m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
11:59 pm - 2:38 pm
SJO
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PIT
12h 39m
1 stop
$345American Airlines
Fri, May 8 - Fri, May 15
American Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 9:36 pm
PIT
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SJO
16h 36m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
12:10 pm - 12:23 am
SJO
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PIT
10h 13m
2 stops
$350American Airlines
Mon, May 25 - Thu, May 28
American Airlines Logo
7:59 pm - 1:18 pm
PIT
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LIR
19h 19m
2 stops
American Airlines Logo
12:35 pm - 8:39 am
LIR
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PIT
18h 04m
2 stops
$351American Airlines
Thu, Aug 13 - Thu, Aug 20
American Airlines Logo
8:09 pm - 11:27 am
PIT
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LIR
17h 18m
2 stops
American Airlines Logo
2:11 pm - 11:45 am
LIR
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PIT
19h 34m
2 stops
$355American Airlines
Wed, May 13 - Wed, May 20
JetBlue Logo
6:00 am - 12:40 pm
PIT
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LIR
8h 40m
1 stop
JetBlue Logo
1:00 pm - 10:45 pm
LIR
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PIT
7h 45m
1 stop
$362JetBlue
Mon, May 18 - Tue, May 26
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 12:10 pm
PIT
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LIR
8h 10m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
3:27 pm - 11:25 am
LIR
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PIT
17h 58m
1 stop
$389United Airlines
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Pittsburgh to Costa Rica flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Pittsburgh to Costa Rica to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Pittsburgh to Costa Rica?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Pittsburgh to Costa Rica, 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 Pittsburgh to Costa Rica is September, when tickets cost $366 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and March, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $600 and $577 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Pittsburgh to Costa Rica?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Pittsburgh to Costa Rica, 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 Pittsburgh to Costa Rica, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 16 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonOctober
Cheapest flight$146
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 2% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 15% increase in price.
Flight from Pittsburgh to San José

FAQs - booking Costa Rica flights

  • Does the Pittsburgh airport have a space designated for kids to play?

    Yes. PIT has installed Kidsport, a children's play space located airside in Concourse C. Kidsport features creative interactive exhibits for kids, toys for toddlers, seating for parents, and an infant care area with a changing table.

  • What documentation do I need in order to fly to Costa Rica?

    When you land in Costa Rica, you must show a valid passport that will remain valid throughout the duration of your stay. You must also show proof that you intend to leave the country within 90 days, such as a return plane ticket.

  • Where can I fly to in Costa Rica from SJC?

    From SJC, Costa Rica Green Airways flies to cities such as Tambor and Quepos. You can also catch a flight on Sensa Airlines to Limon, Nosara Beach, and Drake Bay.

  • Which Costa Rican airport makes a better destination, LIR or SJO?

    That depends on what you want out of your Costa Rican visit. LIR has the advantage of being on the beach, a convenient location if you want to start enjoying the sun and sand right away. Of the two airports, SJO is the only one that has domestic flights. So, if you plan to travel throughout Costa Rica by plane, SJO is a better airport. Also, SJO is more centrally located, making it a good base if you plan to drive throughout the country, as well.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Pittsburgh to Costa Rica?

    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 Pittsburgh to Costa Rica.

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

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

    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 Pittsburgh to Costa Rica 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 Pittsburgh to Costa Rica?

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

Top tips for finding cheap flights to Costa Rica

  • The Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) is situated in the northwest of Pittsburgh near the Ohio River. PIT serves as a hub for the regional airline Southern Express Airlines. When you book your flight from PIT to Costa Rica through KAYAK, you'll have many flight options and prices to choose from.
  • When you fly to San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, you'll be landing at the Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO). This airport is virtually in the center of the country. Through KAYAK, there are a number of flights you could book from PIT to SJO. For example, you could take a United flight that stops in New York, an American flight with a stop in Miami, or an Air Canada flight with a stop in Toronto.
  • You could book several different flights from PIT to The Liberian international Airport (LIR), located in the beach city Liberia on the northwestern shores of Costa Rica. American, Delta, United, Air Canada, Spirit, and Alaska are among the airlines that operate flights from PIT to LIR. These flights have either one or two stops in cities such as Dallas, Miami, New York, Charlotte, Los Angeles, and others.
  • The Pittsburgh International Airport wants to help you make your flight on time. The PIT home page tells you how many parking spaces are available at the airport in real time. The homepage also tells you in real time how long the wait is at all the different security lines in the terminals, including general boarding, first class, and TSA Pre-Check.
  • If you are feeling nervous, stressed, bereaved, or even bored as you wait for your flight at PIT, keep an eye out for the PIT therapy dogs. These trained dogs and their handlers roam Departures hoping to bring a bit of delight to passengers waiting to travel.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Pittsburgh to Costa Rica

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Pittsburgh to Costa Rica? 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.
7.9
DeltaOverall score based on 8422 reviews
8.5Crew
8.1Boarding
7.8Entertainment
7.2Food
7.9Comfort
Airline reviews

Everything went smoothly, although the usual gripes about airline travel were still present: the boarding process is inefficient, the snack selection is limited, and so on. Since there was extra space on the flight, the gate agent rearranged many people's seats to put people on the aisles and windows, leaving the middle seats empty, as much as possible, which was pretty great.

10.0 ExcellentDavid, Apr 2026
DTW - SFO
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Everything went smoothly, although the usual gripes about airline travel were still present: the boarding process is inefficient, the snack selection is limited, and so on. Since there was extra space on the flight, the gate agent rearranged many people's seats to put people on the aisles and windows, leaving the middle seats empty, as much as possible, which was pretty great.

Landed without a gate ready. Plane is extremely old and dirty.

All the amenities was wonderful, if they could keep their prices that low. I'd fly with them all the time.

Very old plane with no inflight entertainment. I purchased the internet pass and it was nearly unusable.

My tray was broken so i had no place to work or eat except my lap. Flight attendant said I would get an email with some credit or miles, it was a complete waste of time as I could only function at about 20% of normal. I have not received anything yet.

Short trip, no food and therefore no expectation for much interaction with staff who were pleasant and professional. My critique is on comfort of the seats. Exit rows and comfort seats do not provide enough personal space for 3 side-by-side seats, especially when in the middle row. Some passengers are not considerate of the middle seat and there should be signs that state something to the effect of: "please consider giving middle seats use of the armrests."

My flight yesterday evening was delayed 3.5 hours with no water or food service. Poor experience

Transparency from pilots, quick boarding and exiting the plane, staff greeted to each and everyone,

Didn't like sitting on the waiting pad for 30 minutes right after departing the gate. If you're going to do that, just don't board so people can still get up and walk around in the terminal. My luggage was damaged by the baggage handlers.

Pilots lied about waiting on “paperwork”. Sat in the plane for over an hour, waiting on some papers to be printed according to the pilot and then all of a sudden he says good news maintenance is finally on their way. Maybe they can fix it before we get our paperwork. Ended up missing my connection in LaGuardia and as a result, had a fly home to Lexington instead of the Louisville airport. Then paid $100 to uber to Louisville since it was midnight by the time I got in. I wish they would just be transparent with passengers sometimes and not try to beat around the bush on why things are delayed.

Putting people that close to the bathroom, where you have to look into the bathroom as people are exiting and entering was not great and the smell was also not great. I know the airlines are desperate for more chairs, but that seat is a crime.

My bags were misplaced!!! Im in a foreign country with no bags

The entertainment options on the seat back video boards were nice.

The flight I was supposed to be on was supposed to take off at 1:50 from State College. It was delayed over and over and over again until somehow I had to rebook on a flight that was supposed to have left State College at 8 am that morning but didn't end up taking off until almost 6 pm. Not only was this completely unacceptable, the "token from United" was a 15 dollar meal voucher that has to be used by today. I would personally like some miles added to my account for this inconvenience. I was in transit for 8 hours from the time I arrive at State College Aiport to when I got home. I was supposed to be home at 3 pm and I returned at 8 pm. Unacceptable. I have not been on an on Time united flight in nearly 5 years.

Crew was friendly. Seats are too narrow, particularly when a big person is in the adjacent seat, but I understand this is due to smaller planes usually flight into Lincoln. I have experienced several flight delays going out and coming into Lincoln airport, I say maybe 50% or higher of the flights I've taken out of this airport have been delayed.

newer aircraft, ability to connect my headset via blue tooth for entertainment.

Great flight. Boarded efficiently. Arrived early at CLT. There was no in flight entertainment on this aircraft. Great crew.

Due to cancellation of connecting flight (Lufthansa) I didn’t fly with United

The seat was comfortable. There was a lot of turbulence. If it weren't for that,it would have been okay.

It was a red-eye, but the flight felt surprisingly quick. The seats were very comfortable, and that made resting much easier. I also want to thank the gentleman seated next to me, who graciously moved so my mom could sit beside me. We slept almost the entire way. The cabin crew was respectful in not disturbing us, while also being courteous and professional throughout. Thank you, United.

My experience with Jet Blue was wonderful. My experience with Kayak sucked and will never use again.

Jet Blue has excellent everything, Friendly customer service and staff, clean aircraft’s and is always on time.

Entertainment and wifi were very sub-par - audio issues and no wifi

We were delayed and had to circle due to weather and had to divert for fuel. While I understand that you can’t control the weather I would have appreciated knowing that the crew wasn’t going to run out of hours and then having to spend the night in the Raleigh airport.

Messy plane that was falling apart Small screens that didn't work

I was traveling with two small kids and our TV s were the only ones not working. Informed the flight attendant who did nothing about them.

They forced me to check my hand luggage at the gate.

I specifically choose not to check bags to ensure I can proceed directly to ground transportation upon arrival. However, due to a recurring lack of cabin space, I was again forced to gate-check my rolling luggage after going through my luggage to take out electronics and batteries. This practice unilaterally changes the service agreement made at the time of purchase. JetBlue needs to find a better way to manage overhead space that honors the carry-on baggage allowance.

Still hasn’t left. Why are you asking how it was?

Flight was good wish there were more snacks options for such a long flight but stewardesses were very pleasant as was flight crew.

Flight was 3 hours delayed. They gave our plan to two other routes. Need to knock that off.

The captain announced to the cabin there would be a delay because they observed a "cut" on a tire during precheck that needed to be cleared by maintenance. We were delayed during this inspection and allowed to proceed after maintenance "measured the cut and decided it was acceptable". My complaint is not about the delay or due diligence. I wish the captain had been more generic when making his announcement. I was a nervous wreck all the way to Charlotte worried that we would have a blowout when landing!

The flight was on time and the landing was very smooth. The crew and flight attendants were all very friendly and professional.

Plane was super cold. No entertainment unless you were with mileage program Getting off the plane was super slow

I appreciate that I finally got the seat I paid extra for this time. Thank you

Half of the TSA checkpoints at PHL are closed. Also, there is no standby for first class passengers. You can only standby for coach. Very dated policy and inconsistent with peers.

It would have been nice if American tried to care.

Delayed initially because they couldn’t print the flight details. Poor instruction on delay. When I got on the plane the flight attendant argued with me about whether my carry on would fit (it did, although she didn’t acknowledge that). No greeting (other than arguing with me) getting on or off the plane.

Beverage service was not good. Also just one service in 5 hr 30 min flight. No ask fir water ir anything beside one time beverage service.

They are always late and seats was also not having working charger

Gate changed multiple times. The staff seemed annoyed that we asked for water. We had to pay for the water as well.

It was a full Spirit experience. Got to witness police officers having to deboard a passenger and cost us about an hour of delay. Front seat was spacious and better than expected.

Broke my bag and offered no support or solution afterwards

We didn't get on the flight, they canceled our flight and said there was no flights leaving this weekend and sent me our money back.

Horrible company: canceled flights and delayed flights. Spirit canceled my flight from Miami to Philadelphia the day before we were supposed to leave from Philadelphia to Miami, with no explanation. I had to rebook another flight, spending more money and instead of flying from Miami, I had to choose a flight from Fort Lauderdale because there were no direct flights available from Miami. That created additional cost. The flight with Spirit from Fort Lauderdale was scheduled to depart at 6am, so I had to wake up my 3 and 6 years old at 3am to get to the airport in time and then, at 5am while we were at the gate the delayed the flight until 7:45am with again no explanation.

Spirit is awful, and cost me an extra $400. On the flight to the destination they staff was rude and did not even offer water during the flight. On the return flight, while on the way to the terminal, Spirit cancelled the flight. This is the second time this has happened, and I believe they should compensate for the additional cost for incurred for the return flight. Spirit simply offered reimbursement for their cancelled flight, and did not take into consideration the cost for a last-minute flight home. The TSA agents expressed how Spirit often cancels evening/night flights, and shows no concern for the passengers.

The flight was delayed four times and finally cancelled. The hotel night we paid for and the connecting flight did not happen. There were also additional costs due to the extra night in Miami. I do not recommend this airline.

The repeated flight delays—this time nearly three hours without any weather-related cause—are unacceptable. Yet, passengers are penalized heavily even for being a minute late. It is unreasonable that there is no compensation for such significant delays, nor even basic provisions like water during the wait or in flight. This imbalance in accountability is deeply frustrating and needs to be addressed.

My flight with spirit airlines was canceled leaving me stranded until tomorrow.

My flight was delayed then put back on time then cancelled and they automatically rebooked me to another flight but that flight was going to make me late to a concert i had planned for. Flight was at 10am concert was at 7pm from Burbank to Las Vegas so I allowed enough time but the flight that was rebooked was too late so I talked with the desk and they were able to get me on an afternoon flight. Thank goodness. That was stressful for a moment. I want to thank the person who helped me get to my show on time. Concert tickets are very expensive and the show was amazing. Hopefully my flight home will be smooth.

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