Santa Ana to San Francisco nonstop
Yes: SkyWest, United, Frontier and Alaska fly direct from Santa Ana (SNA) to San Francisco (SFO) about 13 times a day, year-round.
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Santa Ana to San Francisco in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 372 miles nonstop, about 1 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: busiest in September 2025 (102 flights a week), quietest in March 2026 (78 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 102 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 101 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 100 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 87 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 84 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 80 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 78 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 86 flights a week
- May 2026: 92 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 90 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 89 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 93 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- SkyWest 74% (regional operator), United 20%, Frontier 3%, Alaska 2% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 9,715 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $50 and $200 one way, median $100. 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 $150 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 6,141 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $225, 7,932 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $50 to $200, 7,799 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $50 to $200, 9,715 tickets
Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $100 one way) and Jul to Sep and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $150), 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? San Francisco to Santa Ana nonstop.
Other airports near Santa Ana with nonstops to San Francisco
Within about 100 miles of John Wayne Orange County International Airport
Also nonstop from Santa Ana (SNA)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Phoenix (PHX) about 12 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 11 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 11 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 10 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 9 times a day
- San Jose (SJC) about 7 times a day
- Oakland (OAK) about 7 times a day
- Sacramento (SMF) about 6 times a day
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