San Diego to Philadelphia nonstop
Yes: American flies direct from San Diego (SAN) to Philadelphia (PHL) about 3 times a day, year-round.
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San Diego to Philadelphia in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,370 miles nonstop, about 5 hr 25 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 September 2025 (21 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (14 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 21 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 20 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 20 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 20 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 14 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 17 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 21 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 21 flights a week
- May 2026: 20 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 21 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 20 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 21 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- American is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 2,931 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $400 one way, median $275. 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 $275 one way, middle half $225 to $375, 2,769 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $400, 2,782 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $400, 2,035 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $400, 2,931 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $275 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Philadelphia to San Diego nonstop.
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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