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Cheap Flights from Santa Barbara to the United States

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
New York
New York1 stop$287
Los Angeles
Los Angelesnonstop$179
Las Vegas
Las Vegasnonstop$221
Miami
Miami1 stop$327
San Francisco
San Francisco2 stops$253
Boston
Boston1 stop$353
Denver
Denvernonstop$237
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale1 stop$345
Seattle
Seattlenonstop$137
Atlanta
Atlanta1 stop$275
Dallas
Dallas1 stop$320
Tampa
Tampa1 stop$301
Houston
Houston1 stop$351
Honolulu
Honolulu2 stops$398
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$157
Philadelphia
Philadelphia1 stop$389
New York
New York1 stop$287
Los Angeles
Los Angelesnonstop$179
Las Vegas
Las Vegasnonstop$221
Miami
Miami1 stop$327
San Francisco
San Francisco2 stops$253
Boston
Boston1 stop$353
Denver
Denvernonstop$237
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale1 stop$345
Seattle
Seattlenonstop$137
Atlanta
Atlanta1 stop$275
Dallas
Dallas1 stop$320
Tampa
Tampa1 stop$301
Houston
Houston1 stop$351
Honolulu
Honolulu2 stops$398
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$157
Philadelphia
Philadelphia1 stop$389

Book Cheap Santa Barbara to the United States Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Santa Barbara to the United States 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.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent round-trip flight deals from Santa Barbara to the United States

Sat, May 9 - Sat, May 16
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:07 pm - 9:49 pm
SBA
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SEA
2h 42mnonstop
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8:10 am - 10:41 am
SEA
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SBA
2h 31mnonstop
$137Alaska Airlines
Sat, Jan 31 - Sun, Feb 1
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2:45 pm - 5:30 pm
SBA
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SEA
2h 45mnonstop
Alaska Airlines Logo
11:26 am - 1:53 pm
SEA
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SBA
2h 27mnonstop
$157Alaska Airlines
Tue, Feb 3 - Wed, Feb 4
Southwest Logo
6:00 am - 4:00 pm
SBA
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SEA
10h 00m
2 stops
Southwest Logo
8:45 am - 2:20 pm
SEA
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SBA
5h 35m
1 stop
$162Southwest
Tue, Feb 3 - Wed, Feb 4
Southwest Logo
3:00 pm - 9:50 pm
SBA
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SEA
6h 50m
2 stops
Southwest Logo
5:15 am - 2:20 pm
SEA
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SBA
9h 05m
2 stops
$168Southwest
Fri, Feb 6 - Sun, Feb 8
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 11:29 am
SBA
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SEA
5h 29m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
6:18 am - 11:55 am
SEA
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SBA
5h 37m
1 stop
$183United Airlines
Fri, Feb 6 - Sun, Feb 8
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 11:29 am
SBA
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SEA
5h 29m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
8:40 am - 5:21 pm
SEA
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SBA
8h 41m
2 stops
$188United Airlines
Thu, Feb 5 - Wed, Feb 11
Delta Logo
4:59 pm - 12:09 am
SBA
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SEA
7h 10m
1 stop
Delta Logo
5:30 am - 11:55 am
SEA
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SBA
6h 25m
1 stop
$191Delta
Wed, Apr 29 - Sat, May 2
American Airlines Logo
6:08 am - 12:56 pm
SBA
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LAS
6h 48m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:15 am - 12:15 pm
LAS
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SBA
6h 00m
1 stop
$248American Airlines
Tue, Mar 17 - Wed, Mar 18
Delta Logo
12:40 pm - 9:58 pm
SBA
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SMF
9h 18m
2 stops
Delta Logo
1:20 pm - 11:58 pm
SMF
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SBA
10h 38m
2 stops
$274Delta
Wed, Feb 18 - Sat, Feb 21
American Airlines Logo
12:37 pm - 10:59 pm
SBA
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JFK
7h 22m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
12:29 pm - 6:25 pm
JFK
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SBA
8h 56m
1 stop
$287American Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Santa Barbara to the United States flights

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

What is the cheapest Santa Barbara to the United States flight route?

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

The cheapest ticket to the United States from Santa Barbara found in the last 72 hours was to Los Angeles, at $179 round-trip. The most popular route is from Santa Barbara (SBA) to Denver (DEN), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $230.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Santa Barbara to the United States?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

No, with an average price for the route of $374, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Santa Barbara to the United States?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Santa Barbara to the United States, 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 Santa Barbara to the United States is January, when tickets cost $358 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $576 and $564 respectively.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$79
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 5% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 5% lower on average.
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Top tips for finding cheap flights to the United States

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Santa Barbara to the following destinations at these prices or less: Denver $219 one-way - $319 round-trip; Phoenix $273 one-way - $416 round-trip; San Francisco $196 one-way - $291 round-trip

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Santa Barbara to the United States

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Santa Barbara to the United States? 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 11696 reviews
8.5Crew
7.8Comfort
7.1Food
7.0Entertainment
8.1Boarding
Airline reviews

You need categories to denote when food and entertainment are not available.

6.0 GoodAnonymous, Jan 2026
SNA - PDX
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You need categories to denote when food and entertainment are not available.

My Alaska Airlines return flight, although worked out in the end, didn't start off well. The initial plane that my family and I boarded was grounded because of a mishap that happened to one of the engines and everyone on board had to disembark the plane. Thankfully we were accommodated with a another plane but our initial flight was supposed to have departed at 11 pm San Diego time for Orlando but instead we ended up leaving at 1:40 am San Diego time. All Passengers were informed that part of the delay was that the plane had to be inspected by the captain, the food had to be stocked and the individuals responsible for fueling the plane left for the evening and had to be summoned to return to fill up our. The Alaska Airlines crew at the airport and on the plane were awesome and apologetic. I know that the crew wasn't responsible for the mishap of the engine but I think in the future the airline should offer a complimentary drink or (1) item of food other than pretzels, nuts or chips to all passengers since we're not to blame for the extreme set backs. The airline in general is good and I recommend to all flyers.

Alaska is a great airline. Unfortunately, our flight was canceled in a really late hour and it caused a lot of hardship in my travel process.

Did not have In flight service on my round trip due to turbulence. I did not partake in In flight entertainment. Flight descending into LAX was very turbulent. It would have been nice if the pilot communicated with us during that rough descent into LAX to ease the minds of some of us more nervous flyers.

More comfortable than the flight to Los Angeles. But food was mediocre again. Attendants kind and courteous.

The snack pretzels have garlic. just use normal pretzels. Tomatoijuice instead of only bloody mary mix

Late leaving so threatened our connection in Vegas to Seattle. We did make up time and made our connection.

I behave had better flights this one was old and poor

They canceled my flight with only a couple hours before checking in at the airport and offered no alternatives to get home.

I had entered my TSA pre number when I bought the ticket but TSA pre was not on my boarding pass. I went to find an agent at check in and there was only one agent one duty for first class and a line of people waiting for check in/baggage with no agent manning that area.

We got exit row seats both flights. Everything was running on time

The boarding and seat assignment system no longer works for me, but I know it is being replaced. Otherwise, I am good with the overall experience.

The lead steward kept singing about "San Francisco" and hotel California---more annoying than humorous....needs work. Flight was smooth and on time.

San Diego airport is brand new, spacious, airy and very smooth checkin at SW baggage drop.

Crew could have been friendlier, maybe I'm spoiled by SW crews. In flight wifi was good. Would be nice to have more food offerings on a 4 plus hour flight

Ever since Southwest starting charging for bags, passengers don't want to pay to check their bags, so the gate agents have to beg people to check their roller bags now because there's "not enough space". This was a terrible business move by Southwest.

Sacrament staff are always polite and helpful. Airport is easy to maneuver and boarding is straightforward.

As always, the entire Southwest experience was wonderful, from online booking to flight to baggage retrieval. Very grateful.

The weather could have been better. There was a 40 minute ATC delay in SFO because of marine fog and a micro cell storm delayed landing and take-off at Nashville. The gate was changed 5 minutes from boarding from gate B3 to gate C23 at Nashville airport.

The cabin was quiet for the redeye flight. The area was clean. The staff was great. The 787 Max was in good condition. Drawbacks were that the seat widths were tight for some passengers. The seat padding was at best average and for a long flight uncomfortable.

The flight was delayed for about 2 hrs. Other than it, it was good.

I am extremely disappointed that delta internal pilot manuals now refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “gulf of America”. You can bow down to the Orange turd on your own. I will never fly delta again

No lunch on a x-country flight scheduled for 10:50 am departure, arrived 5+ hrs later. That requires a black box label before you pay for the tickets. Worst, when I checked in online, it's specifically said that lunch was served on his flight for economy Plus passengers.

Our flight from SFO to MSP was right on time on 11/15/2025. No delays. As we approached MSP at about 8 pm, we circled in the air until 8:40 pm so I don't call that efficient for MSP. I think the captain should announce the delay and why. (as if we all don't know that we are just circling around the area, slowing down, speeding up, slowing down.) Thank you. Marilyn Fischer

Staff were friendly and happy. Delta could make sure passengers that don't have the app know of changes. Without Kayak I would not have known about the change of gate or the delay. Kayak was faster to notify me.

The flight used a B767 with a very old interior from before 2014. The entertainment system did not work at all during the flight despite attempts to reset the system. It was like they flew this route just to be competitive.

Delayed flight (1hour) plus a long layover after an overnight flight with no backup plane available.

Flight delayed for two and half hours and then canceled altogether due to mechanical issues. No mechanic onsite to fix so had to send one from LAX.

My husband upgraded our seats and I don't know if it was due to the type of planet was or if they didn't upgrade our seats. We were supposed to be in I believe comfort seats and they were just as tight as any other seat- no leg room and we are very tall people but at least it wasn't extremely cold. My husband did put in a complaint about our seating because he paid extra and if we would have known that the space and the tightness would have been the same, we just would have gotten the emergency row emergency row seats that we normally get. We love Delta but both our flights coming home we're not good. Oh I forgot to mention that on our flight to Hawaii our luggage wheels got broke and we had to purse new luggage on vacation then we never had this problem so we didn't know protocol and reported it after we got home only for them to tell is we only had 24hrs to report the damage. Not sure what was going on with Delta this vacation trip.

Crew was excellent. Comfort seats not as nice as other kinds of planes.

left on time, reasonable boarding process arrived early luggage came out quickly

I’m so sorry, I can’t remember her name, I believe it was Dimpti. She was stellar, also a mature Asian flight attendant, lots of flowers in her hair, just as amazing! But literally the crew was AWESOME . Only downside is there weren’t any charging outlets. Maybe I needed to ask a flight attendant , but it would’ve been nice to have one easily accessible.

I boarded flight UA#1318 at Sacramento International Airport going back to Houston TX. The flight was scheduled at 5:10am. I was able to check in virtually using the United Airlines app. When I entered the airport, there was no one outside assisting with checked bags as it was for Delta Airlines. Immediately upon entering, there was a LONG, EXTREMELY LONG line to the kiosks to get boarding passes. I stand in line to get boarding passes then had to move to ANOTHER EXTREMELY LONG line to get my bags checked in. While standing in this line, we noticed an agent taking customers to 3 at a time to her station to check their bags in. Lucky for me, she called me back, checked my bags for me and I was on my way. I then encountered another long line at the TSA check and to avoid I ending up having to sign up for CLEAR to bypass it. So glad, I did.,...Both of my flights were great with no issues, butthe check in progress at Bush Airport was so much smoother. Check-in at SMF airport needs to be anaylzed and corrected. Do better United, I know you can....thanks

Pushed back only to get deplaned due to a tire damaged by ground crew. They did at least go pretty fast. The bathrooms should be banned under the Geneva convention. No room to even sit straight on the toilet. The under-seat entertainment units block what little leg room there is.

United airlines has the best customer experience from booking to arrival. I always fly United airlines. The mileage program is excellent

Older aircraft, no meal, only food was for purchase. Not impressed United.

Not pleasant trip cross country when the entertainment and WiFi system not working. No entertainment for entirety of route. Staff was rather nonchalant in that they dismissed the problem due to age of plane. It would have been nice to know this up front so I could have come prepared to read or download movies before boarding Coincidentally or not, there was a similar issue with the entertainment system on my previous flight I took on my fist leg of the trip. There are no seat TVs, so you must rely on the app when it works. United can do better. Also, what use it it to pay for boarding group 2 when half of the passengers are in the same line as you?

Premium Plus is a really good idea for longer flights

The flight attendants were great, I joked with one I can’t remember her name, a blond, really sweet. I thought it was run well very professional. This was great i survived Spirit, I know for which I speak.

I was in first class. The outlets at my seat did not work. The plane was shabby and run down. I had prepurchsed a day subscription for internet that was not redeemable. I had to repurchase the internet for my flight and then it didn’t work anyway. Quite disappointed in what was supposed to be the launch of a great vacation.

The flight was on time and arrived early. The crew were friendly and helpful.

Overall experience was great. Flights were almost on time in departing and we arrived at our destination as scheduled. No issues with amenities or flight crew. Everything went well as as expected. Will fly again with American Airlines in the future!

Horrible. Both legs of my flight were delayed more than 6 hours. No compensation, no screens on the plane, and the plane was not clean.

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

The flight was flawless and we even arrived between 20 and 25 minutes early!

Always seated jammed in rear of aircraft Admirals Club food at DFW terminal D was absolute worst food experience and I pay $600/year to eat this dried out junk

Mostly good. Flight was crowded but Airline personnel were very friendly & accommodating. It would be good to have savory snacks rather than just sweet Biscoff cookies.

It was a red eye flight, so no meals were provided, but it was fine with snacks. The seats felt cramped and almost too narrow.

Very crowded flight but what can you expect these days?? Crew was accommodating.

The seats in economy were appeared to be quite thin and lack sufficient cushioning to be comfortable. Perhaps it was my seating position but the plane seemed notably load.

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