$86 Find Cheap Flights from Portland to Houston

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$267
Typical prices: $437-$227
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Cheapest non-stop
$287
Typical prices: $402-$207
Alaska Airlines
Sat 5/23Tue 5/26
PDX - IAH • Non-stop
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Cheap Flights from Portland to Houston (PDX-HOU)

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

Sat, May 23 - Sat, May 30
United Airlines Logo
1:02 pm - 7:21 pm
PDX
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IAH
4h 19mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
5:22 am - 10:20 am
IAH
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PDX
6h 58m
1 stop
$267United Airlines
Mon, Jul 13 - Sun, Jul 19
Frontier Logo
6:59 pm - 12:47 pm
PDX
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IAH
15h 48m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
1:42 pm - 6:04 pm
IAH
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PDX
6h 22m
1 stop
$270Frontier
Sat, May 23 - Sat, May 30
Multiple Airlines Logo
12:35 pm - 10:44 am
PDX
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IAH
20h 09m
1 stop
Multiple Airlines Logo
5:57 pm - 8:29 pm
IAH
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PDX
4h 32mnonstop
$273Multiple Airlines
Thu, May 28 - Sat, May 30
Multiple Airlines Logo
12:35 pm - 9:10 pm
PDX
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IAH
6h 35m
1 stop
Multiple Airlines Logo
5:57 pm - 8:29 pm
IAH
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PDX
4h 32mnonstop
$274Multiple Airlines
Wed, Jun 3 - Sun, Jun 7
Multiple Airlines Logo
5:50 pm - 6:23 am
PDX
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IAH
10h 33m
1 stop
Multiple Airlines Logo
8:50 pm - 10:20 am
IAH
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PDX
15h 30m
1 stop
$275Multiple Airlines
Sat, May 16 - Wed, May 27
Delta Logo
11:12 pm - 10:39 am
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IAH
9h 27m
1 stop
Delta Logo
3:25 pm - 10:02 pm
IAH
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PDX
8h 37m
1 stop
$277Delta
Sat, May 23 - Sat, May 30
American Airlines Logo
11:43 pm - 8:57 am
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HOU
7h 14m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
8:23 pm - 12:50 am
HOU
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PDX
6h 27m
1 stop
$277American Airlines
Fri, May 22 - Sat, May 30
American Airlines Logo
12:40 am - 8:57 am
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HOU
6h 17m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
8:23 pm - 12:50 am
HOU
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PDX
6h 27m
1 stop
$278American Airlines
Sat, Jun 6 - Tue, Jun 9
Frontier Logo
11:15 am - 12:44 am
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IAH
11h 29m
2 stops
Frontier Logo
6:30 am - 4:35 pm
IAH
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PDX
12h 05m
1 stop
$278Frontier
Tue, Jun 2 - Tue, Jun 9
Delta Logo
9:39 pm - 9:32 am
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HOU
9h 53m
1 stop
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6:00 am - 4:19 pm
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PDX
12h 19m
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$282Delta
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Portland to Houston flights

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

How much is a round-trip flight from Portland to Houston?

This analysis is based on the cheapest round-trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from Portland to Houston departing in May.

What is the cheapest Portland to Houston flight route?

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

The cheapest return flight from Portland to Houston costs $260 on the route between Portland (PDX) and Houston George Bush Intcntl Airport (IAH). It is also the most popular route.

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

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

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

What is the cheapest month to fly from Portland to Houston?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Portland to Houston, 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 Portland to Houston is May, where tickets cost $66 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are February and March, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $194 and $188 respectively.

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

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Portland to Houston, 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 Portland to Houston, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 50% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 23 weeks before departure.

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Cheapest flight$86
Flight from Portland to Houston George Bush Airport

When to book flights from Portland to Houston

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Portland to Houston 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 Portland to Houston

  • What is the cheapest flight from Portland to Houston?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Portland to Houston was $86 for a one-way ticket and $267 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Portland and Houston?

    Yes, you'll most likely have to show a valid passport before boarding the plane in Portland and on arrival in Houston.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Portland to Houston?

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Portland to Houston?

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

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

    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 Portland to Houston.

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

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

    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 Houston with an airline and back to Portland with another airline.

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

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

Prefer to fly direct from Portland to Houston?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Portland to Houston.
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Direct departures

Portland to Houston

Monday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Tuesday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Wednesday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Thursday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Friday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Saturday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Sunday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

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Direct returns

Houston to Portland

Monday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Tuesday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Wednesday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Thursday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Friday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Saturday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Sunday

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

Alaska Airlines,United Airlines

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Portland to Houston

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Portland to Houston. 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 Portland to Houston? 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 4314 reviews
8.0Comfort
7.0Food
7.5Entertainment
8.1Boarding
8.6Crew
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Southwest is kind of a slum airline. It’s gotten more expensive over the years for less and less service. I am a Southwest Chase Visa card holder and was forced to choose a seat in the 26th row in the middle seat. However my wife who is a rewards member but doesn’t hold a card or anything else, gets randomly assigned a normally paid seat in row 6! How does that work?

4.0 OkayDavid, Apr 2026
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Southwest is kind of a slum airline. It’s gotten more expensive over the years for less and less service. I am a Southwest Chase Visa card holder and was forced to choose a seat in the 26th row in the middle seat. However my wife who is a rewards member but doesn’t hold a card or anything else, gets randomly assigned a normally paid seat in row 6! How does that work?

The seat was not comfortable. 1D. My back was sore all night and the next day.

One of the best airlines for fast boarding, on time arrivals, and top notch service!

I elected to pay for the upgrades and found very little difference

The new seating arrangement is so over priced for what you get.

Snacks are always pretzels. Why can't you also offer peanuts ?

Flight was hours late, unable to sit next to spouse, I have had so much better experiences. Substantially better, only saving grace was that it was a short flight.

An entire day of delays. Cost lots of money. Meals and a hotel.

Only downside was the legroom and seat width, which is always a problem unless I spend more for a premium seat.

Great flight but super high price. Glad it was a business trip and not personal

very nice blankets and comfortable seats. great service. Great flights.

great experience just at the end, we got in early and there wasn't anyone at the gate for 30 min so we had to just sit on the tarmac

Generally Good. Outbound flight was marred by a continuously s creaming baby. Fortunately the flight was only 90 mins long it would be nice if people traveling with small childres could be centered in one part of the plane. Also, you need to adapt your servey to include a "not applicable " option for things like food and entertainment, which are not offered on shorter flights. I fily Alaska by choice as given all the cirumstances, I fel\el you do a good job.

I was seating in 26A and the children in 27A and B were kicking me non-stop. They kicked me for hours nonstop and the parents refused to get off their phones or correct them. I kindly asked multiple times and got screamed at by the mom that her son is disabled. I told her I get it, but that I matter too and she is responsible for her child. He then kicked me so hard my drink spilled. Not one crew member or other passenger said or did a thing. It was so horrible.

Birding was slow. extremely slow; please do experiments on efficient plane boarding experiences; especially regarding passengers that pass their seat number…

Pretty smooth ride!… a little tight in the back and would’ve loved to had a movie screen… couldn’t beat the price to the West Coast!

I like not much people. Could tell the kids to be quiet.

I liked everything except, I left a brand new Switch 2 on the plane and talking to anybody about it is nearly impossible. I had to fill out a form and hope they get back to me in the next 2 weeks. I really hope they contact me. I saved for that thing for over a year and my son is heart broken.

Fight attendant excellent Food very good, not great Seats were stiff and uncomfortable Flight was overall very nice. Last three flights were burdened with miserably uncomfortable seats. Hard stiff no padding.

The ground crew was very good. They communicated clearly and continued updating. The flight crew was fine. The flight crew on the March 20th flight from MCI to Portland was excellent.

Flight delayed two hours , missed connection flight then connection cancelled- horrible experience with hotel

Omg the disaster at the security was on another level! “Go to this end, sorry closed now, go to that end”. Ridiculous! This took over an hour! As far as the airline was concerned although I booked nearly a year ago I couldn’t get my bag tag - stand in another 15 minute line or my seat on Hawaiian Airlines- 5 more minutes! Then my TSA status was denied. Like what the heck! Makes a person not want to travel with this amount of incompetence

The Honolulu Hub needs 2 to 3 times the amount of things to do as well as shuttles that transport to/from gates and terminals. Arriving from OCONUS locations; transferring to CONUS locations its a miserable experience. Fetching and re-checking bags, then returning to a gate across the airport take longer than any other large airport. If youre confused by what I mean, the process goes like this: Disembark plane Walk a mile to the main terminal Walk half a mile to baggage claim Wait 40 minutes for baggage Walk a mile to re-check-in baggage Wait 20 minutes for checking in those bags Fo back through the wrong TSA line because the signage is poor Almost miss the connecting flight because your gate is across the airport.

The checking was disaster, the crew wasn't behave well. It took us two hours to check in, after that thr line at the TSA was long, we barely make the flight. Bad airline

Fabulous if you have a portable wheelchair. They can store it in the galley and you can just walk out with it. Really nice and the flat seats are just incredible, very nice. iPads for movies, also pretty nice,

The crew were exceptionally nice and accommodating. My wife was tired after the flight from Haneda, Tokyo. They let her sleep and served her dinner later after she woke up, before we landed in PDX.

No charging outlets worked. Other than collecting trash attendants didn’t come around. No one could hear flight attendants announcements during the flight. Seat pads were horrible. Sitting on a board for 5 hours. What happened to Hawaiian airlines comfort, hospitality, and extras? Our pilots did an excellent job trying to minimize turbulence and incredible job in landing in windy conditions.

I like that if they asked you to checked in a bag at the gate they give you priority to board

Horrible food and crew. Crew were laughing and talking loud while people were trying to sleep

Yall need to integrate your system with Alaska more efficiently. They booted me off the first flight because of a discrepancy on your end.

Overall flight was ok. Flight attendant was receptive to assisting passengers with tight connections.

This was the first flight in the morning. We boarded fine. The cabin door was closed and we were ready to go. We were notified by the Captain that ATC issued and ground stop for 40 minutes. So, without even pushing back from the gate, we were already 40 minutes late. We actually were released to push-back and taxi at 30 minutes. But, some passengers had tight connections and were not going to make their connections. Some passengers asked about the delay and the effect on the connections and were told by the cabin attendant that all flights will be delayed and so they should be OK. However, that was not true. My connecting flight was on time and I arrived at IAH with 21 minutes to make my connection. I did and I'm happy about that, but the flight crew should not have given assurances to the passengers who might have missed their connections.

Boarding was again a "free for all". We were boarding group 4, and almost the entire plane was able to board before us. It's a shame that someone who follows the rules, gets the short end of the stick. Not fair.

Fine. The issues I had were associated with luggage being delayed from Turkey to Tanzania

We purchase first class seats for the first time for multiples of standard economy ticket. There was no access to the club lounge and no priority boarding. The meal and the service once on the plane were superior and the seat was nicer, but not worth the price difference. I will be happy to seat in economy and spend the difference on more travel.

My flight was canceled a few hours before boarding. I was rebooked on Copa airlines and missed an important meeting .

Everything was on time and service on the flight was great!

The travel company that you have on your site did me so wrong. I don’t know how it happened, but they put my son‘s name on my plane ticket flying to Vietnam. Along with his birthday. They would not have let me fly from Fort Myers to Ho Chi Minh City. I don’t think that I can ever use your service again. I typed my information into the browser along with my passport number and four days before I’m leaving I have to quickly search another ticket to fly out here.

Good flight. Efficient boarding and competent flight crew. No problems until we arrived at our destination gate. We were early so there was an aircraft at the gate that had to move before we could pull in. Then, due to the type of aircraft we flew, the cabin door could not be opened until some luggage from the cargo bay was offloaded to preserve center of gravity characteristics. So, that further delayed deplaning. Despite being 20 minutes early on landing, we ended up being 5 to 10 minutes late after all the delays.

This trip did not start off well. The inbound flight was delayed about 20 minutes. Then, after initial onboarding, the passengers had to deplane due to a mechanical problem. That took about 30 minutes to fix and be cleared. Then, reboarding was chaotic. It took a long time to sort passengers and two passengers on standby were ticketed but there was no seat. So, they had to deplane. One of the flight crew was trying to help passengers figure out a place to put their carry-on bags and that took more time. In the end, our scheduled 10:30 am departure did not actually take off until about 12:05 pm CST. The flight itself was long but we got to Houston. Some passengers missed their connecting flights and had to rebook. Not the best of flights I've had.

Plane was hot and miserable and the crew was rude!

12 hour delay required getting on and off plane 3 times - would have at least liked to have been offered a snack or drink

They didn’t offer a water, even after I asked

They switched our terminal 3 times and we were delayed for four plus hours!!!

It was an early flight and most people napped/slept and the crew let us which was nice.

The crew acted like they had never done this and kept barking passive aggressive orders at people. + the security line + the delay + sitting on the tarmac for 2 hours + none of the apps or signage updating with correct times

More inflight connection. And leg space is horrible. And the paying for baggage I'd ridiculous!!!

My flight was originally from SAT to MCO connecting from MCO to ORD. We got diverted to ATL and than Frontier staff there was sooo un helpful first they said they couldn’t give us any accommodation since our flight first got delayed that cancelled and now it’s 221am and I am still in ATL since they said they need to create a new flight my final destination is ORD and I have been delayed twice and cancelled. With no real help the frontier app didn’t work no email updates over all such a horrible experience

There's no seats that lean back with little leg space i wad uncomfortable the entire flight. Your charges for extra baggage is despicable and costly!!

Remind customers of the need to have passport or new ID for boarding.

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