San Diego to Dallas/Fort Worth nonstop
Yes: American, Alaska and Frontier fly direct from San Diego (SAN) to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 12 times a day, year-round.
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San Diego to Dallas/Fort Worth in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,171 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 55 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in July 2026 (89 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (56 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 60 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 65 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 58 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 64 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 56 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 62 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 66 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 70 flights a week
- May 2026: 83 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 86 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 89 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 82 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- American 83%, Alaska 10%, Frontier 7% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 5,125 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $125 and $300 one way, median $200. 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 $200 one way, middle half $125 to $325, 5,010 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $200 one way, middle half $125 to $325, 4,914 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $150 to $375, 4,074 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $200 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 5,125 tickets
Jul to Sep, Oct to Dec and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $200 one way) and Jan to Mar trips cost the most (median $225), 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? Dallas/Fort Worth to San Diego nonstop.
Other airports near San Diego with nonstops to Dallas/Fort Worth
Within about 100 miles of San Diego International Airport
Also nonstop from San Diego (SAN)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- San Francisco (SFO) about 22 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 17 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 17 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 15 times a day
- San Jose (SJC) about 15 times a day
- Sacramento (SMF) about 14 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 13 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 12 times a day
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