Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth nonstop
Yes: American flies direct from Santa Barbara (SBA) to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 7 times a week, year-round.
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Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,316 miles nonstop, about 3 hr 15 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, a steady 7 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 7 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 7 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 7 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 7 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 7 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 7 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 7 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 7 flights a week
- May 2026: 7 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 7 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 7 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 7 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- American 81%, Envoy 19% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 389 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $225 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 $350 one way, middle half $275 to $475, 403 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $325 one way, middle half $275 to $450, 303 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $425, 321 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $225 to $400, 389 tickets
Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $275 one way) and Jul to Sep trips cost the most (median $350), 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 Santa Barbara nonstop.
Other airports near Santa Barbara with nonstops to Dallas/Fort Worth
Within about 100 miles of Santa Barbara Municipal Airport
Also nonstop from Santa Barbara (SBA)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- San Francisco (SFO) about 5 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 3 times a day
- Salt Lake City (SLC) about 3 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 3 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 2 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 13 times a week
- San Diego (SAN) about 12 times a week
- Chicago (ORD) about 7 times a week
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