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Cheap flight deals to Santa Barbara

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights to Santa Barbara 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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11:05 - 21:11LHR-SBA
18h 06m1 stop
13:40 - 11:25SBA-LHR
13h 45m1 stop
£549Lufthansa
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Mon, 16 Sep - Mon, 30 Sep
13:30 - 23:59LHR-SBA
18h 29m2 stops
06:23 - 12:20SBA-LHR
21h 57m3 stops
£566United Airlines
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Mon, 16 Sep - Mon, 30 Sep
13:30 - 23:59LHR-SBA
18h 29m2 stops
06:23 - 07:25SBA-LHR
17h 02m2 stops
£569United Airlines
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Mon, 16 Sep - Mon, 30 Sep
12:20 - 23:59LHR-SBA
19h 39m1 stop
10:55 - 10:25SBA-LHR
15h 30m1 stop
£573United Airlines
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Mon, 16 Sep - Mon, 30 Sep
06:30 - 21:05LHR-SBA
22h 35m2 stops
06:00 - 07:50SBA-LHR
17h 50m2 stops
£592Delta
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Thu, 5 Sep - Mon, 23 Sep
11:35 - 21:05LHR-SBA
17h 30m1 stop
06:00 - 07:50SBA-LHR
17h 50m2 stops
£606Delta
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Thu, 5 Sep - Mon, 23 Sep
09:15 - 23:59LCY-SBA
22h 44m2 stops
14:10 - 18:35SBA-LCY
20h 25m2 stops
£612Lufthansa
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Mon, 16 Sep - Mon, 30 Sep
10:30 - 20:22LHR-SBA
17h 52m1 stop
13:18 - 11:05SBA-LHR
13h 47m1 stop
£662American Airlines
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Thu, 29 Aug - Tue, 3 Sep
11:00 - 19:18LHR-SBA
16h 18m1 stop
16:45 - 22:10SBA-LHR
21h 25m2 stops
£677Finnair
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Tue, 15 Oct - Sat, 19 Oct
11:00 - 19:18LHR-SBA
16h 18m1 stop
12:33 - 12:45SBA-LHR
16h 12m1 stop
£771Finnair
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Flights to Santa Barbara - Travel Insights & Trends

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

What is the cheapest day to fly to Santa Barbara?

The average price of all flights to Santa Barbara clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Santa Barbara is Thursday where tickets can be as cheap as £564. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Monday, where prices are £822 on average.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Santa Barbara?

The average price for all flights to Santa Barbara depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.
The cheapest time of day to fly to Santa Barbara is generally in the afternoon, when flights cost £634 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Santa Barbara is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is £756.

How long is the flight to Santa Barbara?

The duration of your flight to Santa Barbara depends on your departure and arrival airports. Obviously any flights that include a layover will also be longer. The most popular routes to Santa Barbara on KAYAK are from London, which takes 11h 15m, Edinburgh, which takes 14h 25m, Birmingham, which takes 15h 35m, and Manchester, which takes 20h 30m.

Good to know - Cheap tickets to Santa Barbara

Low season

February

High season

March

Cheapest flight

£549
Best time to beat the crowds (5% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 0% lower on average.
Flight from London Heathrow Airport to Santa Barbara

When to book flights to Santa Barbara

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel to Santa Barbara based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or returns with a duration up to 40 days. The information is for flights to Santa Barbara based on your location. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs - booking Santa Barbara flights

  • How far is Santa Barbara Airport from central Santa Barbara?

    The city centre of Santa Barbara is 8 miles from Santa Barbara.

  • What is the name of Santa Barbara’s airport?

    All flights to Santa Barbara land at Santa Barbara Airport. The airport code is SBA,and it can also be referred to as Santa Barbara or Santa Barbara Municipal.

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

    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 to Santa Barbara.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Santa Barbara is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to Santa Barbara?

    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 Santa Barbara 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 to Santa Barbara?

    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 Santa Barbara up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • Which airline offers the most flights to Santa Barbara?

    Of the 5 airlines that fly to Santa Barbara, United Airlines offers the most flights, with around 83 per week, followed by American Airlines with 67 flights per week.

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Direct departures

United Kingdom to Santa Barbara

Monday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +9 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +10 more

Tuesday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

Wednesday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

Thursday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

Friday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

Saturday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

Sunday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

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Direct returns

Santa Barbara to United Kingdom

Monday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +9 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +10 more

Tuesday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

Wednesday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

Thursday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

Friday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

Saturday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

Sunday

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, +10 more

Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

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Top 3 airlines flying to Santa Barbara

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Santa Barbara. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from the United Kingdom to Santa Barbara. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with to Santa Barbara? 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.
7.7
FinnairOverall score based on 1332 reviews
7.8Boarding
6.8Food
8.2Crew
7.0Entertainment
7.5Comfort
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Extremely low quality food. Ordered muslim meals but got vegetarian meals instead. Muslims are not vegetarian, they love meat as much as any other non-vegetarian person, so make a decent effort to get halal meals. Regardless, the vegan sandwich was absolutely tasteless. I am pretty sure the company making that sandwich does not even do a taste test itself

2.0 MediocreKash, Jun 2024DEL - HEL
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Extremely low quality food. Ordered muslim meals but got vegetarian meals instead. Muslims are not vegetarian, they love meat as much as any other non-vegetarian person, so make a decent effort to get halal meals. Regardless, the vegan sandwich was absolutely tasteless. I am pretty sure the company making that sandwich does not even do a taste test itself

Arriving at Heathrow was a complete disaster because air bridge broke down and it took ages to find spare stairs! Something that I'd kick Heathrow in the shins for, not Finnair - who were great.

Not great. Flight attendants were aloof, food was mediocre, seats that I paid $150 were given to someone else without any concession. I will probably never use kayak again. Terrible experience from start to finish.

The wine was low quality Finnair label stuff in small bottles and only one small bottle each. Embarassinng. A competing airline served me two generous glasses of a nice South African Shiraz from regular wine bottles, a Beck's beer, and a generous Dewar's White Label on the rocks. Cabin service was good and polite, plane interior was beautiful, but cramped.

All good- I love BA and the professionalism of the crew and pilots.

Great flight- smooth, nice crew, nice clean aircraft, departed a little late but arrived 10 early.

It was listed on my ticket as Finnair but there was no indication that the flight was Finnair. In fact the number was even different. There were no employees there until exactly 2 hours before so we had to wait in line at Iberia and hope

Sorting on line would have been appreciated Onward information on flights missed No ability to get seating arranged before we got to gate Very unfriendly at gate

The flight was Finnair but there was no indications anywhere that the checkin was for Finnair also. There was no one to ask. I think at a minimum they should list the code shares so people don’t stand in the wrong line for an hour.

I booked the flight with Finnair, which made the arrangements for downloading a boarding pass unnecessarily complicated. I wouldn't do that again. Instead I'd book direct with AA.

loved the bulkhead seats with all the extra leg room! The initial dinner was excellent unfortunately the last meal was unsatisfactory. Our salad was partially frozen and the pizza roll was 90% dough. My only complaint

See my previous comments. I was probably booked in business but was moved to economy

Boarding was efficient. Crew was not pleasant and skipped me during a round of beverage service. Older plane with no seat back screens and I couldn’t connect to wifi or their entertainment offerings.

My flight was delayed for a whole day, so I lost a day of my vacation.

I was refused to used the toilet closes to my seat and had to go to the back of the plane .. it was difficult for me I’m a wheelchair customer

No entertainment system or wifi on a 12 hour flight. They failed to include GF meals And snacks as requested on my ticket so I had very little available to eat. Crew seemed indecisive.

Ability to watch movies.No earbud sound system.Marginal beverage service.Unexplained late take off resulting in VERY tight connection in LA which proved maximally stressful.

Ability to watch movies.No earbud sound system.Marginal beverage service.

Great service; lots of water offered, frequent trash cleanup; tasty food

United Airlines was fantastic, however, UnderPricer was a nightmare. I got to the airport 4 hours before my flight. We are moving to New Zealand so had quite a bit of baggage (16 checked items) and so wanted to have plenty of time to get everything taken care of properly. When I went to check in they (United) could only find a ticket for me. The 5 tickets for my children were never officially ticketed. I called Underpricer and they told me it was United's fault and United told me that Underpricer just needs to reissue the tickets, but they refused to. I asked the Underpricer agent to transfer me to his supervisor as I was not getting the help I needed. He told me the supervisor was busy but that he would call me back in 30 minutes. 30 minutes came and went with no phone call. After an hour I called Underpricer back but they would not let me talk to the person I had talked to before, just told me that he was talking with the supervisor and technical support. I called again an hour later, was told the same thing. I tried again later, with only about 30 minutes until my flight was scheduled to leave (meaning I had been at the airport for more than 3 hours with my 5 children trying to get ticketed and board the flight). Also, my husband had moved to New Zealand 3 months prior, I haven't seen him in 3 months, my children hadn't seen their dad in 3 months, we were all extremely eager to get on that flight and get to New Zealand. The situation with the tickets did not get resolved until after it was too late to check our luggage and board our flight. We were devastated. My 11 year old son was in tears at not being able to be on his way to see his dad. Thankfully we were rebooked for the next evening, but that night it felt devastating. We'd been at the airport for 4 hours waiting. My in-laws waited with me and then helped me reload all our baggage and took us home to stay with them for the night. On the newly booked flights we could not sit together - my children were spread throughout the plane. So, even though I had paid extra to select our seats after buying my seats from Underpricer only two of us were able to sit together (thankful that my 11 year old wasn't all by himself, but not happy that my 14 & 16 year old daughters were seated by strangers). I really feel that Underpricer should refund me what I paid for the seating ($120 USD). It was a very frustrating situation and I plan on never using Kayak or Underpricer ever again.

Would never fly lauffthabsa again. Seats were way too crowded together....very uncomfortable le

Tickets, paying for bags, and the lack of help by employees was the worst. It took almost 1.5 hours to get this done. The airplane, seating, and stewards were amazing!!! That part of the flight was one of the better flights I have taken.

Very good- my first flight with Airbus A380/800. Some of the food was not tasty , however. Everything else was excellent- the crew, the comfort, the process.

The airplane was as hot as a sauna upon boarding. I was dripping with sweat. Something needs to be done about that.

The airplane did not offer standard outlets so I was unable to work on my laptop. This is totally unacceptable for an international flight.

The smell of vomit from the previous flight was overwhelming for a 9 hour flight. There must be a chemical or product to kill the smell before the next flight boards??!!!

Overall good flight Aircraft is 787 hence seats are very narrow Asian veg food was better than expected International entertainment on screen had very limited choices

Check in and baggage drop was a disaster in both IAD and Frankfurt. It was unclear whether we were to go stand in the Lufthansa line or the United Airlines line. The supposed Service Desk in Frankfurt to get checked in with my 88-year father was chaotic, disorganized and they only offer seating to folks there to get a wheelchair after first making them stand for 30-45 minutes in a line, when seats are right there on the other side of their closed off area. Very frustrating on both ends in the experience.

Boarding process was hectic and unorganized. Delayed for hours, THEN delayed for weather.

No complains with the crew. But generally speaking food is awful, entertainment is not good either.

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Recent return flight deals

 
These are the cheapest return flights to Santa Barbara found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
16/9Mon
1 stopLufthansa
18h 06mLHR-SBA
30/9Mon
1 stopLufthansa
13h 45mSBA-LHR
£549
16/9Mon
2 stopsUnited Airlines
18h 29mLHR-SBA
30/9Mon
3 stopsUnited Airlines
21h 57mSBA-LHR
£566
16/9Mon
2 stopsUnited Airlines
18h 29mLHR-SBA
30/9Mon
2 stopsUnited Airlines
17h 02mSBA-LHR
£569
16/9Mon
1 stopUnited Airlines
19h 39mLHR-SBA
30/9Mon
1 stopUnited Airlines
15h 30mSBA-LHR
£573
5/9Thu
2 stopsDelta
22h 35mLHR-SBA
23/9Mon
2 stopsDelta
17h 50mSBA-LHR
£592
5/9Thu
1 stopDelta
17h 30mLHR-SBA
23/9Mon
2 stopsDelta
17h 50mSBA-LHR
£606
16/9Mon
2 stopsLufthansa
22h 44mLCY-SBA
30/9Mon
2 stopsLufthansa
20h 25mSBA-LCY
£612
29/8Thu
1 stopAmerican Airlines
17h 52mLHR-SBA
3/9Tue
1 stopAmerican Airlines
13h 47mSBA-LHR
£662
15/10Tue
1 stopFinnair
16h 18mLHR-SBA
19/10Sat
2 stopsFinnair
21h 25mSBA-LHR
£677
15/10Tue
1 stopFinnair
16h 18mLHR-SBA
19/10Sat
1 stopFinnair
16h 12mSBA-LHR
£771

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best deals for one-way flights to Santa Barbara found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
28/8Wed
2 stops
18h 58mLHR-SBA
£753
14/8Wed
3 stops
28h 06mLHR-SBA
£894
28/8Wed
3 stops
28h 45mLHR-SBA
£898
28/8Wed
2 stops
45h 55mLCY-SBA
£1,044
14/8Wed
2 stops
47h 18mLCY-SBA
£1,053
27/8Tue
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
27h 18mLHR-SBA
£2,035
30/8Fri
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
27h 18mLHR-SBA
£2,037
28/8Wed
1 stopDelta
20h 43mLHR-SBA
£2,346
28/8Wed
1 stopDelta
17h 30mLHR-SBA
£2,353
28/8Wed
3 stopsAir Canada
23h 29mLHR-SBA
£2,701

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Recent domestic flight deals

21/9Sat
multi-stopDelta
5h 19mPDX-SBA
28/9Sat
multi-stopDelta
6h 29mSBA-PDX
£129
21/9Sat
multi-stopDelta
7h 17mPDX-SBA
28/9Sat
multi-stopDelta
6h 29mSBA-PDX
£133
21/9Sat
multi-stopDelta
7h 17mPDX-SBA
28/9Sat
multi-stopDelta
8h 49mSBA-PDX
£137
2/11Sat
multi-stopDelta
6h 38mSEA-SBA
12/11Tue
multi-stopDelta
5h 18mSBA-SEA
£151
28/8Wed
directAlaska Airlines
2h 34mSEA-SBA
31/8Sat
directAlaska Airlines
2h 31mSBA-SEA
£153
3/9Tue
directAlaska Airlines
2h 34mSEA-SBA
10/9Tue
directAlaska Airlines
2h 31mSBA-SEA
£168
5/9Thu
multi-stopUnited Airlines
7h 51mPDX-SBA
9/9Mon
multi-stopUnited Airlines
8h 02mSBA-PDX
£191
22/8Thu
multi-stopUnited Airlines
4h 51mSEA-SBA
25/8Sun
multi-stopUnited Airlines
5h 18mSBA-SEA
£205
11/9Wed
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
8h 25mEWR-SBA
15/9Sun
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
7h 15mSBA-EWR
£366
11/9Wed
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
14h 20mEWR-SBA
15/9Sun
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
7h 15mSBA-EWR
£370

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