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$164 Find cheap flights from San Diego to Dayton

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Cheap flight deals from San Diego to Dayton (SAN-DAY)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from San Diego to Dayton 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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10:50 pm - 10:25 amSAN-DAY
8h 35m1 stop
4:20 pm - 11:28 pmDAY-SAN
10h 08m1 stop
$276Delta
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Sat, May 25 - Sat, Jun 1
9:21 am - 6:49 pmSAN-DAY
6h 28m1 stop
6:22 pm - 9:55 pmDAY-SAN
6h 33m1 stop
$277American Airlines
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Tue, Jun 4 - Tue, Jun 18
10:57 pm - 10:20 amSAN-DAY
8h 23m1 stop
12:51 pm - 5:57 pmDAY-SAN
8h 06m1 stop
$278American Airlines
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Tue, Jun 4 - Tue, Jun 18
9:21 am - 6:49 pmSAN-DAY
6h 28m1 stop
12:51 pm - 6:08 pmDAY-SAN
8h 17m2 stops
$282American Airlines
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Tue, Jun 4 - Tue, Jun 18
11:22 am - 8:56 pmSAN-DAY
6h 34m1 stop
12:53 pm - 5:48 pmDAY-SAN
7h 55m1 stop
$288American Airlines
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Wed, Jul 3 - Wed, Jul 10
9:47 am - 10:50 pmSAN-DAY
10h 03m2 stops
5:47 am - 10:04 amDAY-SAN
7h 17m1 stop
$293American Airlines
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Wed, Jul 3 - Wed, Jul 10
9:50 pm - 10:25 amSAN-DAY
9h 35m1 stop
6:00 am - 11:25 amDAY-SAN
8h 25m1 stop
$338Delta
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Fri, May 10 - Tue, May 14
2:05 pm - 11:30 pmSAN-DAY
6h 25m1 stop
1:55 pm - 6:44 pmDAY-SAN
7h 49m1 stop
$428United Airlines
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Sat, May 11 - Tue, May 14
7:00 am - 8:29 pmSAN-DAY
10h 29m2 stops
9:20 am - 1:03 pmDAY-SAN
6h 43m1 stop
$495United Airlines
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Tue, Apr 30 - Thu, May 2
6:15 am - 10:36 pmSAN-DAY
13h 21m2 stops
12:29 pm - 8:58 pmDAY-SAN
11h 29m2 stops
$653Alaska Airlines
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Flights from San Diego to Dayton - Travel Insights & Trends

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

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from San Diego to Dayton?

The average price of all flights from San Diego to Dayton clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
If you are looking for a flight deal from San Diego to Dayton, look for departures on Saturdays and avoid leaving on a Sunday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from Dayton, Wednesday is the cheapest day to fly and Monday is the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Diego to Dayton?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from San Diego to Dayton, 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 San Diego to Dayton is November, where tickets cost $505 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and March, where the average cost of tickets is $851 and $736 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Diego to Dayton?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from San Diego to Dayton, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price on the flight from San Diego to Dayton, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 85 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from San Diego to Dayton?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
In the past 3 days, the cheapest one-way tickets to Dayton from San Diego were found on American Airlines ($164) and Delta ($218), and the lowest round-trip tickets were found on Delta ($276) and American Airlines ($277).

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January

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December

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$164
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 7% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 10% increase in price.
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When to book flights from San Diego to Dayton

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Diego to Dayton 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 San Diego to Dayton

  • What is the cheapest flight from San Diego to Dayton?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Diego to Dayton was $164 for a one-way ticket and $276 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between San Diego and Dayton?

    No

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San Diego to Dayton?

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San Diego to Dayton?

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

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San Diego to Dayton, Delta or Alaska Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Diego to Dayton are Delta and Alaska Airlines. With an average price for the route of $507 and an overall rating of 8.0, Delta is the most popular choice. Alaska Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $979 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Diego to Dayton?

    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 San Diego to Dayton.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Dayton from San Diego 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 San Diego to Dayton?

    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 Dayton with an airline and back to San Diego with another airline. Booking your flights between San Diego and DAY 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 San Diego to Dayton?

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

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Top 4 airlines serving from San Diego to Dayton

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Diego to Dayton. 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 San Diego to Dayton? 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.
8.0
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 9115 reviews
7.3entertainment
8.2boarding
7.9comfort
8.6crew
7.3food
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My plane ride down landed 20 min late. Boarding at SFO was strange too. The people at the terminal were nice—but, boarding lacked direction, and was confusing . Coming back was worse—the plane was hours behind—and I barely caught the last Bart train back to San Francisco (3 min more and I would have been in trouble). It was a very stressful trip, and it didn’t need to be.

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, Apr 2024SAN - SFO
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My plane ride down landed 20 min late. Boarding at SFO was strange too. The people at the terminal were nice—but, boarding lacked direction, and was confusing . Coming back was worse—the plane was hours behind—and I barely caught the last Bart train back to San Francisco (3 min more and I would have been in trouble). It was a very stressful trip, and it didn’t need to be.

This flight was significantly affected by poor wifi connections. I couldn’t get my work done because the wifi kept dropping. Even texts were not going through. There is no seat power in premium class either. I fly a lot. Today was my 10th flight in 4 weeks. This was by far the only flight that was sub par.

WiFi connection bad. Food is really awful. Crew very nice and efficient

It was the worst experience because they delayed the flight by 2 and half hours. We were supposed to depart by 3:41 but they did the depart by 6 pm. It was so boring!!

My experience with Alaska Airlines flights is dominated by the fact that today’s economy class is barely humane. Everyone is so tightly packed together that one cannot move an inch for the entire flight…. and if it’s a bicoastal trip, that’s almost five hours of discomfort!! And if you’re above average in height and/or weight it’s absolute hell! Moreover, still all Economy classes are basically the same across airline carriers, it doesn’t matter who you fly with.

Everything was fine within the parameters of flying full aircraft. My only small regret was that the non-meal, "snack" type food options had 90% medium to high sodium items. They looked appetizing, but many, if not most older Americans are restricted in sodium intake, so maybe one low/no sodium option would entice people to buy them. I brought my own food. The staff, on-time and aircraft quality were great, as usual for Alaska.

When I purchased the tickets I purchased insurance as well but for some reason it didn't go through, then this past Monday I broke my leg and was unable to make my trip, I'll never book through Kayak again.

Alaska airlines was good! Friendly staff, good communication and respectful. The alaska airlines help in everyway they can

The reduced size overhead compartments were a surprise. They keep getting smaller and smaller while amenities keep getting fewer.

Friendly service. Aircrew was very professional and genuinely positive in attitude and demeanor.

There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

I didn’t not like that I could not select my seat and ended up with the worse seat.

The landing was bad and the hostess came two times and i was sleeping but when she served the person that nexts to me I woke up and she didn’t even asked me if I need any drink or snacks two times!!!!

Plane was late because of a mechanical malfunction and the food listed as available was not. Flight attendants seem over worked and under paid. They just done seem happy. And that can be seen in their faces.

Everything went well with the flight. But one of the flight attendants had on inappropriate pants. She had on an old worn out pair of sweat pants. The back seam was unrivaled and should not have been worn for work. If I had not seen her in the airport with the standard type of luggage, I certainly would not have thought she was working for Delta. Not a good look at all for representation.

Waited 3 hours on a plane to de-ice due to manpower issues. Waited another hour and a half once we landed because of a gate issue. Missed my connections. Created. A total of 13 hours of delay.

The plane was one hour late cause they were doing some reparations with us on the plane no mention I was in the first seat and the door was open the entire time with 8 degrees! The plane was totally dirty no mention old ! The staff was nice but no put together, the attention to details and passenger experience is missing and i always travel first !!! Is better the lounge than the plane! KLM/air France every details is taken care maybe you need a creative creator or experience client need asap was terrible and not memorable for the price that I payed very dissatisfied

Great, on time departure, friendly and accommodating crew, great leg room, Smith flight

Plane was turned around due to fog half way into the flight, Delta did not properly direct passengers to stay on same flight and instead failed to properly rebook on Alaska

Aircraft very cramped. Check-in was great with an agent helping us. Food was almost non-existent. Pre-flight went well once I got the app reloaded on my phone since we don’t fly much anymore.

Due to one crew member not showing up to work, our flight was significantly delayed causing us to miss our connecting flight in Houston to Mississippi causing us to be delayed by more than 6 hours and missing our event all together. Very disappointing. All because ONE crew member called in sick. United did grant us a $15 meal voucher, which was a small but appreciated concession that I wasn’t able to use because I ordered my lunch and paid for it before applying the concession, and the staff said it was too late to use it. Ugh! We also had a TWO delay coming back from Mississippi, but that was on American Airlines and it was due to weather, so not their fault. Anyway, not at all impressed with United’s handling of our flight and the HUGE disappointment of missing our important family event for our 90 year old mother. All that money and all that stress and emotions for nothing. Having to wait the hour to bring an employee from LAX seemed like something that should not have happened. Why don’t you have a local back-up? Santa Ana is not a little airport in a rural area.

Crew was great and did their best to make us comfortable and captain came out at the beginning to announce why the flight was delayed, weather situation up ahead, and kept us updated throughout the flight.

United WiFi is consistently unusable (it can take 10 mins to load a single web page). If you need Wifi to do work, be prepared to lose half a day of productivity.

Awful. I got stuck next to a person carrying a dog and behind someone with a dog. People need to board these dogs downstairs. The cabin is crowded enough with your pets

Packed in like sardines, very uncomfortable. Sitting the aisle my shoulder was rammed into numerous times by rushing flight attendants. Also flight was very cold.

the head jack on my seat didn't work and the power outlet didn't work for my seat

Left 2 hours later for delayed I had to take care a kid with special need since people don’t want to move to accommodate the rest of the family. . It wasn’t bad but that made me upset that people can be that selfish.

For a 22 minute flight all you expect is for it to be safe and comfortable

Flight was on time. Staff were friendly. I paid for Economy Plus but was required to check my standard carry-on luggage due to lack of space on the aircraft. This cost me 30 minutes, unexpectedly, in waiting at the baggage claim. This experience did not meet my expectations.

Wouldn’t let me check in said couldn’t find a ticket had to wait very long Time

The experience was great and much better than the flight going out. of course I was in first class but the service was excellent

Comfort of seats, ease of boarding. Food selection could be better

Food options were limited which is absolutely embarrassing for a Flight of this size The staff did not come around as much and I am not accustomed to such poor service from American Airlines Drinks I believe were limited to soda and water

Do not eat the bagel! Otherwise, good albeit late, breakfast in first. Boarding downgrade only because flight was delayed due to plane change due to undisclosed problem with original aircraft. I did not use entertainment.

Crew were attentive and friendly. Flight was smooth and early! I enjoyed the less crowded plane. Thank you!

We are gluten free, there were not any available complimentary gluten free options.

Don't often sit in 1st class. Our experience was great.

No meal on a cross country flight? SFO-MiA is pretty much the definition of a coast to coast flight. No meal provided. Sky high wi-fi rates too. Stop nickel and diming your customers.

The staff was unprofessional and didn’t communicate very well. The boarding process was very disheveled, potentially due to a power outage the previous day but there was no contingency plan to properly get passengers boarded the following day. Once boarded the aircraft stayed on the tarmac for over 45 minutes due to high winds. The communication was sporadic but an announcement was finally made an additional 30 minutes later that the flight was cancelled but we couldn’t get off the plane. Prior to deplaning one of the gate agents came on the plane and made an announcement for everyone to pickup their checked bags and take a card to rebook a new reservation because they didn’t have adequate staff. Flights were missed, passengers went to different airports and there was little to no assistance from AA.

Apart from the delay due to unforeseen circumstances. The leg from sjc to dfw was fine. It was the leg from dfw to orf that we encountered issues mainly due to the flight attendant crew not being friendly. We had two small children and we needed some assistance to warm up milk so the baby would sleep. The crew just didn’t get it and made things very difficult. One made a remark that the baby’s dirty diaper smell was a “gift” to the plane in a rude way. Normally I’d brush that off as a funny comment if the rest of the trip the attendants were helpful or understanding of the difficulty we faced. But that wasn’t the case. We were met with rudeness on the second leg. Whereas on the first leg the crew were so nice and helpful.

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from San Diego to Dayton found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
5/26Sun
1 stopAmerican Airlines
8h 30mSAN-DAY
$164
5/15Wed
1 stopAmerican Airlines
8h 30mSAN-DAY
$209
5/15Wed
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
9h 20mSAN-DAY
$214
6/9Sun
1 stopDelta
9h 48mSAN-DAY
$218
6/8Sat
1 stopAmerican Airlines
8h 28mSAN-DAY
$219
5/17Fri
1 stopDelta
9h 35mSAN-DAY
$228
7/19Fri
1 stopUnited Airlines
9h 26mSAN-DAY
$237
5/26Sun
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
9h 40mSAN-DAY
$243
6/7Fri
1 stopDelta
8h 27mSAN-DAY
$329
6/7Fri
2 stopsUnited Airlines
18h 16mSAN-DAY
$376

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Last minute flights from San Diego to Dayton

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from San Diego to Dayton that are departing in the next 10 days.
4/30Tue
multi-stopDelta
9h 08mSAN-DAY
5/2Thu
multi-stopDelta
8h 23mDAY-SAN
$406
4/30Tue
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
9h 31mSAN-DAY
5/2Thu
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
8h 52mDAY-SAN
$438
4/30Tue
multi-stopUnited Airlines
10h 29mSAN-DAY
5/2Thu
multi-stopUnited Airlines
6h 43mDAY-SAN
$495
4/30Tue
multi-stopUnited Airlines
10h 29mSAN-DAY
5/2Thu
multi-stopUnited Airlines
14h 31mDAY-SAN
$643

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