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Flights from San Diego - Travel Insights & Trends

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

Which are the most popular places to fly to from San Diego?

The domestic destinations KAYAK users have most searched for when searching for flights from San Diego.
Based on KAYAK flight searches, the most popular place to fly from San Diego is New York (13% of total searches). The next most popular destinations are Seattle/Tacoma Intl (8%) and Washington, D.C. (6%).

What are the most popular international flights out of San Diego?

The international destinations KAYAK users have most searched for when searching for flights from San Diego.
There are many international destinations you can fly to from San Diego. The most popular international destinations among KAYAK users are San José del Cabo, Cancún and Paris.

What are the most popular countries to fly to from San Diego?

The most popular countries KAYAK users have searched for from San Diego along with the average price for the route clicked by KAYAK users in the last 2 weeks.
Based on KAYAK flight searches, the most countries to fly to from San Diego is United States (90% of total searches). The next most popular destinations are United Kingdom (4%) and Canada (2%).

Which cities can I fly to direct from San Diego?

There are loads of places you can fly direct to from San Diego. The most popular destinations for direct flights among KAYAK users are Chicago, Los Angeles, Norfolk, Tampa and Detroit. On average, the cheapest of these destinations on KAYAK over the last 2 weeks for a return flight was Norfolk at $151, while the most expensive was Los Angeles, at $338.

Which international cities can I fly to direct from San Diego?

There are many international destinations you can fly to non-stop from San Diego. The most popular international destinations from KAYAK users are Puerto Vallarta, Tokyo, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto. On average, the cheapest of these destinations on KAYAK over the last 2 weeks for a return flight was San José del Cabo at $256, while the most expensive was Tokyo, at $2,028.

What is the longest direct flight from San Diego?

The longest direct flight you can take from San Diego is to Tokyo, with a duration of 11h 40m. The next longest is Munich at 11h 10m, followed by a flight to Paris at 10h 45m.

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FAQs for booking flights out of San Diego

  • What is the quickest way to travel from downtown San Diego to San Diego International Airport?

    One easy and quick way to go from downtown San Diego to San Diego International Airport is by car, as it will normally take you around 7 to 10 minutes in total if there is no additional traffic. Otherwise, you can always choose to take public transportation instead, including bus line 992, an option that will take you approximately 15 minutes.

  • What parking options are available at San Diego International Airport?

    For standard self-parking, San Diego International Airport has the Terminal 2 Parking Plaza, which charges both daily and hourly rates and has covered parking and EV charging. Otherwise, you can opt for curbside valet parking from both Terminals 1 and 2, which means you won’t have to worry about taking a shuttle to and from the parking area.

  • Is there an on-site airport hotel at San Diego International Airport?

    Although there is no on-site hotel at San Diego International Airport, there are several nearby hotels that have a free shuttle service to and from SAN. There are a few that are within a 5-minute drive of the airport and which offer free shuttle services for guests upon request, so make sure to hook this service ahead of time.

  • What services does SAN provide for travelers with limited mobility?

    San Diego International Airport provides a few different services for travelers with disabilities or restricted mobility. For example, a wheelchair service can be provided upon request, with airport employees available to help travelers check-in, go through security, arrive at their gate, and board their plane. Both terminals are also equipped with ramps and elevators. 

  • What is San Diego also known as?

    San Diego Airport’s airport code is SAN. It can also be referred to as Lindbergh Field, San Diego, San Diego Intl.

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

    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.

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

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

    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 your destination with an airline and back to San Diego with another airline.

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

    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 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 tips for finding a cheap flight out of San Diego

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from San Diego to the following destinations at these prices or less: Denver $106 one-way - $130 round-trip; Dallas $148 one-way - $275 round-trip; London $639 one-way - $872 round-trip
  • Morning departure is around 4% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*.
  • San Diego International Airport (SAN) is known for being one of the primary travel centers in the state of California and is also a focus city for a few different airlines, including Alaska Airlines, Pacific Southwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and West Air. Due to this, you will find many flights out of this airport are operated by one of these companies.
  • While waiting for your flight to take off from San Diego International Airport, you may want to relax in one of the lounges that are available for travelers. There is the United Club in Terminal 1, as well as the Airspace Lounge, which can be found in Terminal 2. You can also find the ​​Delta Sky Club in Terminal 2.
  • If you’re looking to grab a bite to eat before your flight leaves from San Diego International Airport, you have a few different options. There are several sit-down restaurants and to-go options that can easily be found in Terminal 1 and Terminal 2.
  • Rest a bit before a long day of traveling by treating yourself to a service at the Be Relax Spa, which has two locations near Gates 26 and 36 in San Diego International Airport. You can choose from a variety of massages, facials, and salon treatments, such as haircuts.
  • If you will be traveling for work, you may want to get your shoes shined before you board your plane at San Diego International Airport. There are four shoe-shining services in total, with two being found in Terminal 1 and two in Terminal 2.
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Top 5 airlines serving from San Diego to Anywhere

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from San Diego to Anywhere? 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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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.

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.

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

Honestly, I didn’t expect that I will experience this long time wait during the check in. There was only one person who was taking care of the passengers for the economy class and it took us to wait about one hour to do our check i. As a result we barely get to the airplane as the gate was at the end of the airport. That is totally not professional where one crue is working at the registration desk with economy and 3-4 crues are helping for the business class.

Like most domestic flights in the US, you are basically on your own with this airline when it comes to food, so be sure to purchase meals and drinks ahead of time or expect to arrive starving and dehydrated (like I was).

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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.

Hated every minute of it. This flight should have only taken 1.5hrs but was delayed over 10hours. Now I am being told I cannot be compensated or refunded my ticket price or extra leg room, which I purchased but did not receive, because the airline is throwing the blame on the 3rd party I purchased tickets through and 3rd party putting the blame on airline. No one wants to help. They received their money and that's all they care about. Im going on 3 days of still trying to get to my final destination, had to cancel car rental, car insurance and hotel. Currently staying in airport until hotels open up. Thank you Lufthansa, Kayak, Underpricer and United for making this trip the worst ever.

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

Beverage and food services are excellent. We enjoy paying the extra for economy plus for the 3 inches more leg room to be exact.

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.

Flight was delayed by 3 hours. The pilot made up 1 hour during the flight, but that made the wait at the airport 5 hours once you factor getting there 2 hours early.

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

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.

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.

You cancelled my flight by email then made it very difficult to get in contact with you. Then put me in a flight with a long layover in Mexico returning to the wrong airport in uk. Mind blowing my stressful. I missed see my grand dad because of you.

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.

This was not the BA business class it used to be. Mediocre food, attendants seemed stretched thin. All the little luxuries that used to make BA business fun were missing. Flight delayed and the explanation given was they forgot to pick up crew - I hope I misheard! Transfer in LHR “sticky” - we thought we had way too much time at 3hours but it was needed. Next time will try different route.

I purchased a carry on bag online…was supposed to cost $72 but after a whole slew of bs charges, the total was over $175.00. Because of these hidden charges, I will not even consider flying Frontier ever again. It’s just not worth the hassle. I’m scratching this company off my list forever.

Flight was OK. Seats were good no cell phone charges on the plane no TVs or entertainment.

There were 3 leg for the trip and each leg was delayed by 90 minutes or more. The boarding process takes forever with people waiting on the jetway even though most folks do not have carry-on. The whole process is poorly managed.

Flight cancelled and was told by a rude gate agent that they don’t accommodate on other airlines. Had to wait 5 hours for a connecting flight that had a 7 hour layover. Would not allow bags to be checked early so we couldn’t go through security .Had to rent a car for the afternoon to store bags and get a meal. Also incurred a hotel fee. No apology or reason given for the cancellation- just rudeness.

They cancelled the flight then did nothing to help us rebook. It was awful - I won’t fly with them again

The process of buying the ticket and navigating all the hidden charges that Frontier throws at you was a terrible experience. The actual airport experience and flying was fine.

The truck that was refueling the plane drove away with the hose still connected to the plane and ripped part of the plane off with it

Not have to pay for every single item to take a flight. Seating and delays sucked.

Flight was cancelled and I had to spend the night in the airport lugging my suitcase around

If you don’t check in 24 hours in advance, they will charge you $110 to check your bag instead of the $30. I did not get an email with this information and did not check in. In addition, my flight home was cancelled at layover and I had to spend the night in the airport, and then have another layover at another airport before making it home. Will not fly frontier again.

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