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Cheap Flights from South America to San Diego

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from South America to San Diego 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 South America to San Diego

Thu, Sep 24 - Sun, Sep 27
American Airlines Logo
6:30 am - 10:25 pmBOG  Bogotá El Dorado-SAN San Diego
17h 55m1 stop Miami
American Airlines Logo
6:15 am - 10:30 pmSAN  San Diego-BOG Bogotá El Dorado
14h 15m1 stop Dallas/Fort Worth
$390American Airlines
Tue, Oct 27 - Mon, Nov 2
American Airlines Logo
6:40 am - 11:03 pmBOG  Bogotá El Dorado-SAN San Diego
18h 23m1 stop Miami
American Airlines Logo
10:35 pm - 2:15 pmSAN  San Diego-BOG Bogotá El Dorado
12h 40m1 stop Miami
$432American Airlines
Tue, Sep 22 - Wed, Sep 23
Multiple Airlines Logo
4:25 am - 5:10 pmBOG  Bogotá El Dorado-SAN San Diego
14h 45m2 stops San Salvador El Salvador Intl San Francisco
Multiple Airlines Logo
2:20 pm - 6:15 amSAN  San Diego-BOG Bogotá El Dorado
13h 55m1 stop New York John F Kennedy Intl
$462Multiple Airlines
Tue, Sep 8 - Wed, Sep 30
Multiple Airlines Logo
4:25 am - 5:10 pmBOG  Bogotá El Dorado-SAN San Diego
14h 45m2 stops San Salvador El Salvador Intl San Francisco
Multiple Airlines Logo
2:20 pm - 6:15 amSAN  San Diego-BOG Bogotá El Dorado
13h 55m1 stop New York John F Kennedy Intl
$470Multiple Airlines
Wed, Sep 23 - Wed, Sep 30
Copa Airlines Logo
10:35 am - 6:29 pmMDE  Medellín Jose Maria Cordova Intl-SAN San Diego
9h 54m1 stop Panama City Tocumen Intl
Copa Airlines Logo
10:00 pm - 2:45 pmSAN  San Diego-MDE Medellín Jose Maria Cordova Intl
14h 45m1 stop Panama City Tocumen Intl
$523Copa Airlines
Sat, Nov 21 - Sat, Nov 28
Copa Airlines Logo
4:30 pm - 5:15 pmMDE  Medellín Jose Maria Cordova Intl-SAN San Diego
27h 45m1 stop Panama City Tocumen Intl
Copa Airlines Logo
10:00 pm - 8:00 pmSAN  San Diego-MDE Medellín Jose Maria Cordova Intl
19h 00m1 stop Panama City Tocumen Intl
$523Copa Airlines
Wed, Nov 18 - Tue, Nov 24
LATAM Airlines Logo
12:00 pm - 10:57 pmLIM  Lima J Chavez Intl-SAN San Diego
13h 57m1 stop Los Angeles
LATAM Airlines Logo
6:15 am - 10:05 pmSAN  San Diego-LIM Lima J Chavez Intl
12h 50m1 stop Los Angeles
$586LATAM Airlines
Thu, Nov 19 - Thu, Dec 3
LATAM Airlines Logo
12:00 pm - 10:57 pmLIM  Lima J Chavez Intl-SAN San Diego
13h 57m1 stop Los Angeles
LATAM Airlines Logo
3:00 pm - 8:05 amSAN  San Diego-LIM Lima J Chavez Intl
14h 05m1 stop Los Angeles
$598LATAM Airlines
Wed, Nov 18 - Thu, Dec 3
Delta Logo
1:15 am - 11:24 pmLIM  Lima J Chavez Intl-SAN San Diego
25h 09m2 stops Miami Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson
Delta Logo
3:00 pm - 8:05 amSAN  San Diego-LIM Lima J Chavez Intl
14h 05m1 stop Los Angeles
$601Delta
Thu, Dec 3 - Tue, Dec 8
Delta Logo
12:05 pm - 12:24 pmLIM  Lima J Chavez Intl-SAN San Diego
27h 19m1 stop Salt Lake City
Delta Logo
7:59 pm - 10:05 pmSAN  San Diego-LIM Lima J Chavez Intl
23h 06m1 stop Los Angeles
$601Delta
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Flight from Lima to San Diego

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from South America to San Diego

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from South America to San Diego? 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.
7.8
DeltaOverall score based on 8503 reviews
7.8Entertainment
7.2Food
8.5Crew
8.1Boarding
7.8Comfort
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Both of my flights to and from JFK experienced significant delays. Most notably, my first flight was delayed by six hours due to crew members being affected by delays on a previous flight. While I understand that disruptions can occur, Delta’s staffing and operational planning should include sufficient contingency measures to handle situations like this rather than placing the full burden of those delays on customers. Additionally, the $12 meal voucher offered as compensation was inadequate, particularly given the high cost of food and beverages at the airport. Considering the length of the delay and the substantial inconvenience caused, I believe more meaningful compensation would have been appropriate.

4.0 OkayXizhe, Aug 2026
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Both of my flights to and from JFK experienced significant delays. Most notably, my first flight was delayed by six hours due to crew members being affected by delays on a previous flight. While I understand that disruptions can occur, Delta’s staffing and operational planning should include sufficient contingency measures to handle situations like this rather than placing the full burden of those delays on customers. Additionally, the $12 meal voucher offered as compensation was inadequate, particularly given the high cost of food and beverages at the airport. Considering the length of the delay and the substantial inconvenience caused, I believe more meaningful compensation would have been appropriate.

Crew was real good, flight was smooth and came in early.

Gate agent rushed to fill hot jetway with crowd so it took over 12 minutes to go from gate to plane. Just like a discount airline Pooly prepared cabin and third time that claim of rough air prevented any cabin service. Friends on a Southwest flight at similar time had service.

Not a "Delta" issue, but a JFK issue: We booked a connecting flight with 3 1/2 hours between to clearn immigration and customs. Our inbound flight (BCN to JFK) was on the taxiway 45 minutes which ate into our layover time. Immigtration was insanely quick with the CBP MPC app; however, clearing TSA (again, after we were ALREADY cleared in Spain on the inbound international flight) took over 95 minutes. This left us with 10 minutes before boarding the connecting flight (JFK to SAN) to walk to the far end of Terminal 4 and try to find food. We didn't find any food that could promise to serve us in under 10 minutes so we boarded the Delta flight after coming off a plance and an 8-hour flight knowing that we wouldn't be served any food on the next 5 1/2 hour flight. I feel like Delta needs to put pressure on the JFK TSA to open more screening stations (by our count, we saw only 5 scanners open and a line of - as we said - over 90 minutes. The insult is that we WERE ALREADY SCREENED through TSA, but as you come off one flight into the USA, you have to go through the whole process again. It seems like if you have a connecting flight, there should be a way to pass through immigration and customs without needing to return through TSA.

Rough day of travel all the way around. Wrong info given to us multiple times and mistakes in their booking making our trip 10 hours longer than planned. I’m bummed because I fly Delta all the time and love them. Mistakes happen. Just bummed that this was a rare trip our whole family was traveling together.

It was good until there was a 3 hour delay because there was not any pilots to fly the plane.

Everything was very good other than I had selected a specific seat when I booked the flight and they changed it once I checked-in the day before my flight. I was still in first class but lost my aisle seat for a window seat. Being tall, the aisle offers more comfort so I always select an aisle seat.

Flight diverted in SD. Later take off in Seattle by 1.3hrs

Was a great smooth flight from Detroit to San Diego.

The boarding process was terrible especially with an indirect flight Chicago to Seattle to San Diego was terrible talking about we overbooked a flight idk if I’d take this airline ever again we got off our flight from Chicago to Seattle and we traveled for business and they told us our connecting flight was over booked and their was no seats asking people to take a delayed next flight and they don’t tell anyone coughing to wear masks seats 30A-B were terrible during the flight no one wants to sit next to people coughing all around I don’t want to be sick traveling for work or get sick anytime it’s very upsetting the staff doesn’t take this stuff serious to tell them to wear masks when they see people coughing and sneezing

stood in line to check in luggage for nearly an hour. very poor service and not excusable

Same as the previous flight as far as comfort and food. Entertainment didn’t have a watchable screen so everything would need to be watched on your own device in which they didn’t have a charging port that accommodated my iPhone. Seats were very uncomfortable. Staff was very friendly.

Do not book it’s a scam! They stole $1200 from me

Flight got delayed; had to go through security three times.

A lot things happened in this trip.The fly should be less stress.

Some of the Air hostesses are not that friendly. Need improvement

Had to go through security at the gate again. Had to take off shoes and go through the whole thing again even though we have global entry. They asked us to check in items bought at duty free during our layover and since we checked our luggage at the original departure airport, they forced us to check in a small backpack. None of this ever happened with other airlines. In addition, no vegetarian food option and no snacks during a 7 hr flight. Luggage limits are unusually small. This is unacceptable. Will NEVER fly Copa again and will tell friends and family to avoid this airline.

I upgraded myself to Business Class at the last minute so I had a DREAMS window seat. Seeing as I've never flown Business before everything was novel and fun for me and it made the 7 hour flight much more enjoyable for sure.

Horrible food. No wine or any other alcohol is served on the flight. Water is not served often and they refused when I asked for water in two cups. On the other hand, both going and coming back flights were on time.

it was great! Boarded on-time, reasonable leg room, pleasant staff, decent food. The only thing is we were directed to Terminal 2 when the gate was actually in Terminal 1. Smooth ride. Landed early. Got off plane easily and quickly.

I missed my original flight due to miscommunication and it was a challenge to communicate with service personnel, since my Portuguese is limited. However they got me food and a hotel overnight and a seat on the next available flight.

It was a bit unnerving to know that flights are generally oversold. We chose not to pay extra to reserve a specific seat, without realizing that that makes us vulnerable to being bumped. Everything else about the flight was great.

Nothing I like, I missed this connection b/c of an earlier flight delay. I had to stay one more night and I paid out my own pocket. LATAM failed to send me to a safe and decent hotel.

It was delayed for 2 hours. Then when we arrived they took us on a very uncomfortable bus and left us there. The bus driver wouldn't let us out because no one from Latam was there. Everything was disaster.

The plane broke down at the Lima stopover and they offered to put me on a flight the be t day but I had to be back in LA that morning and so I had to buy another ticket from Avianca and United for $2k I asked LATAM for compensation and received none. Very bad experience

Plane never left the ground. Mech issues - entire trip was rerouted through united.

The seats are getting smaller and smaller. Very uncomfortable trip. More than in other airlines

Horrific checkin procedure with neither Delta nor Latam figuring out how to check me in. 4 hrs on customer support with both and both airlines pointing to each other who should do checking. I was not checked in until morning of flight, which for international flight is concerning.

Very courteous crew, the food was good and the flight was on time.

Our yoga retreat was cancelled and besides not refunding is, they would not even let us change dates or locations. As a matter of fact they wouldn’t even talk to us and kept referring to the travel agent, who said they couldn’t change anything and it was up to the airline to do so. They passed the buck until it was too late to do anything about it. Avoid Latham and Budget Air for your travel plans.

the seat has a problem. the back had a hole.

Old 757 with poor entertainment system. United no longer partners with United for free text and email. O'Hara an absolute disaster! Limited gates clauses two hour delay. Unfortunately this appears to be the norm.

Delayed 2 hours while stuck on the aircraft. If the luggage was properly loaded the first time we probably wouldn’t have been delayed at all

UA594 was delayed multiple times. I ended up getting picked up so I can make it in time for work 6AM on Monday, 7/6/2026

Horrific. They missed my connecting flight to San Diego. I didn’t get there until Monday at 9am when I had a mandatory court settlement conference scheduled at 6am since we had parties on the east coast. This caused many issues. All because United apparently forgot to hold the doors open until my flight landed that only had a 10 minute delay. This was the last flight to Southern California. So I couldn’t even rent a car to finish the trip. United cannot be trusted when traveling on specific days and times since weather didn’t have anything to do with the delays.

Was a pain having to leave the plane and reboard but glad the plane was fixed

Connecting flights were poor,especially in Naples.our Lufthansa air bus was a joke.way too small for that long of a flight.no room at all.couldn’t even get out of the seats to move around or go to the bathrooms.we thought we were getting an actual air bus,double decker.i will never fly that long in a plane like that again.kind of misleading to call it an air bus.we actually had more room on our buses that we used.

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

Lost connnection had to stayON in Chicago Was a mess

Booked economy through United - air canada treated it as standby and was almost refused boarding.

Awful! We boarded and then sat on the plane for 50 mins before having to deplane due to a maintenance issue which should have been addressed before boarding. Then we had to change terminals as there was no other plane for us at the current terminal. Then we waited another 2 and a half hours to board again only to wait for 50 mins on the plane again for the snacks to be brought from the broken plane. And once we were on the flight we still only got the complimentary cookie and soda or water. No food vouchers provided even though we had waited over 3 hours for our flight.

The seat when "flat" was not flat and pad was too thin to cover it.

Delayed for mechanical and no updates on what was happening and how long the delay might be.

We are too tired and frustrated to comment politely at this point

My flight was delayed for several hours. Sitting at gate 16 for several hours, I got a text from Kayak the gate changed to 9 before it was announced. Very bad communication at each gate from American Airlines employees. I received 10 notifications of delay from Kayak. My vacation started off horrible! I will write to American Airlines corporate office also.

The service and food needs to improve to catch up with other international flights

The flight crew was fantastic! Which the seats had a small TV.

also wi-fi never worked attendant said satellite coverage is spotty over water ..... but we were over land!

They attended to my needs as I couldn't walk and they provided a wheelchair for me.q

This time my flight was smooth and uneventful. They started boarding even earlier than it was scheduled. I was pleasantly surprised. Thank you!

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