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Cheap Flights from Santa Barbara to Michigan

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 5 days
Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids1 stop$356
Traverse City
Traverse City2 stops$509
Flint
Flint2 stops$539
Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids1 stop$356
Traverse City
Traverse City2 stops$509
Flint
Flint2 stops$539
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Santa Barbara to Michigan flights

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

How much is a round-trip flight from Santa Barbara to Michigan?

Flight prices are below average for this route right now.

Flights to Michigan from Santa Barbara usually cost between $538 and $626 in November.
The lowest price found in the past 5 days was $369 on United Airlines (Nov 25-Dec 2).

What is the cheapest month to fly from Santa Barbara to Michigan?

The cheapest month for flights from Santa Barbara to Michigan is March, when tickets cost $179 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are April and November, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $602 and $568 respectively.

Good to know

Low season

September

Cheapest flight

$160
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 9% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 29% lower on average.
Flight from Santa Barbara to Grand Rapids

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  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Santa Barbara to Michigan?

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

    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 Santa Barbara to Michigan 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 Santa Barbara to Michigan?

    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 Santa Barbara to Michigan 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 Michigan

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Santa Barbara to the following destinations at these prices or less: Chicago $279 one-way - $389 round-trip

Reviews of the top airlines flying from Santa Barbara to Michigan

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Santa Barbara to Michigan? 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.
7.3
United AirlinesOverall score based on 10451 reviews
7.3Comfort
7.1Entertainment
7.7Boarding
8.1Crew
6.7Food
Airline reviews

One of my checked luggage was damaged. Cracked on the top by the handle.

2.0 MediocreRosa Veronica Bernardo, Oct 2026
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One of my checked luggage was damaged. Cracked on the top by the handle.

Santa Barbara is a super small and easy airport. Breezed through rental car return, breezed through Security, ordered a coffee and muffin and to my gate in less than 30 minutes. Maybe because it was a small airport we got the oldest plane. Hardly any overhead space and absolutely zero internet. Its NFL Sunday man! That hurt.

We were delay because so many bags needed to be gate checked and it was disappointing not to have outlets in the seats for such a long flight.

Boarding, time to take off, in flight offerings, and staff were all great. I recommend using UA for this short flight.

Flight delayed, last seat on the plane, no arrival Gate available due to the plane departing late

Really old place. Not as clean as it should be, tray tables needed better cleaning. The items, trays and some other items need to b6 engineered. Anything task you or crew may do is incredibly load, seriously engineer for quiet smooth, easy. Just opening and closing the tray table is actually dangerous and can easily injure a finger. I'm sure it happens as it happened to me! First time I used United and likely will be the last!

Plane was was better than th YVR to ORD flight but was a fraction of the distance. Fly your better planes on longer distance flights.

I paid $380 for my one-way ticket from California to Minnesota. The fair did not include online check-in. I received instructions from their app to check in at a kiosk. At the kiosk, the boarding pass would not print until an actual person came to verify that I had a personal item and not a carry-on item, On the plane, the person next to me was drunk and allowed to continue to order alcohol. United is garbage I’d rather fly spirit.

Delays!!! Maintain your planes so your customers don’t have to sit on their assess for over an hour on the tarmac!! Also, United app is buggy. Videos did not load. Overall a miserable experience. Flight crew was awesome though.

My fi t er t esed to Denver was cancelled and need to schechedule

It was delayed a lot longer than 10 minutes because we arrived 45 minutes beyond our original arrival time. We sat on the tarmac waiting to take off for a very long time. The seats and entertainment options on American were not good and very limited. The ability to text via WiFi for free was nice, but that seems to be standard on mainline flights. Also, gold status really does not do anything for you anymore.

I paid extra for what I thought was leg room and it certainly was not. I had a very cramped experience on my flight from Dallas to Detroit and it was the section right behind first class section. I did however have an amazing flight from Atlanta to Dallas on the initial outbound flight.

Ninth consecutive American flight I have been on that was delayed

Terrible planning. And even worse gate agents. Absolutely rude behavior.

I rated the experience "mediocre" because of the 2 hour delay in take off. This is the 4th flight from DFW on AA where there was a delay and in one of the instances (after 13 delays), the flight was cancelled. I understand weather but for the March 18th flight, there was no weather issue in Dallas or Detroit. I called Concierge Key and they were wonderful, booking me on a later flight in case my flight was cancelled. I have flown with American for many years and never has there been this consistent pattern of delays. Very disappointing.

My carry on baggage was damaged. Entire trip, I had to carry the baggage. When complained to the boarding crew, they got mad at me and still asked me to valet check in the cabin baggage. Rude boarding crew!!!

Experience was good. We were delayed in leaving by 15 mins because the flight was waiting on a family that was late in getting to the gate. Food and drink options were as expected. I highly recommend checking in ahead of time using the airline’s app so that it’s quicker to get your luggage tags as soon as you arrive at the terminal. No more waiting in long lines!

The flight was smooth, the pilot kept us informed about delays and we arrived more of less on time

It took way too long to diagnose and solve the problem of a broken crew member cabin seat. Though compensation for the volunteer who left the flight was very kind.

The AA staff person who checked our bags was curt and almost rude. The FA also seemed unhappy doing her job. Overall it was like riding the school bus back in grade school.

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