Portland to Santa Barbara nonstop
Yes: SkyWest flies direct from Portland (PDX) to Santa Barbara (SBA) about 3 times a week, in the summer season only.
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Portland to Santa Barbara in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 784 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 10 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew May 2026 to Jun 2026 and Aug 2026, up to 4 flights a week, with no flights the rest of the year.
- Sep 2025: no regular flights
- Oct 2025: no regular flights
- Nov 2025: no regular flights
- Dec 2025: no regular flights
- Jan 2026: no regular flights
- Feb 2026: no regular flights
- Mar 2026: no regular flights
- Apr 2026: no regular flights
- May 2026: 4 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 2 flights a week
- Jul 2026: no regular flights
- Aug 2026: 3 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- SkyWest is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 444 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $150 and $275 one way, median $175. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $150 to $300, 440 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 447 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 443 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $150 to $275, 444 tickets
Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Jul to Sep, Oct to Dec and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $175), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Santa Barbara to Portland nonstop.
Also nonstop from Portland (PDX)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Denver (DEN) about 14 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 14 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 11 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 11 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 10 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 9 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 8 times a day
- Salt Lake City (SLC) about 7 times a day
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