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Find cheap flights from Austin to California from $36

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Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours

Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$80
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$138
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$95
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$133
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$292
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$297
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$332
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$273
Arcata
Arcata1 stop$463
Reno
Reno1 stop$154

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December

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FAQs - booking California flights

  • Are there pet relief areas at San Francisco International Airport (SFO)?

    Yes. SFO offers pets and service animals delegated relief areas in its faculties to care for their potty needs. At SFO, on the departure level, are the indoor pet relief areas in International Terminal gates A, Terminal 2 gates D, Terminal 1, C and B gates, and Terminal C gates F. Additionally, on the arrivals level, are the outdoor pet relief areas in Terminal 3 - Courtyard 4 and Terminal 1 - Courtyard 2. The relief areas are furnished with waste bins, drinking sinks, and mutt mitt dispensers. The relief areas are available throughout the day. Also, they are accessible to persons with limited mobility.

  • Does Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) offer passenger de-stressing programs?

    Yes. LAX has the Pets Unstressing Passengers (PUP) program in its terminals, which involves volunteering owners and their trained therapy dogs. The program supplies calmness to nervous passengers through interactions with the furry volunteers. PUP welcomes passengers to take a picture with the therapy dogs and cuddle, kiss, and pet them.

  • Are there nursing rooms at San Diego International Airport (SAN)?

    Yes. For nursing mother travelling through SAN, the Airport has a variety of nursing rooms, which offers a designated space for nursing mothers to pump milk or breastfeed their kids. SAN’s nursing rooms are furnished with kid seats along with seats, electrical outlets, a hand washing station, artwork, and soft lighting. At SAN, the nursing rooms are located in Terminal 1, past security on the West Rotunda, on the second level across from the elevator and East Rotunda on the Ground Level. And on Terminal 2 West, on the second level adjacent to Gates 34 to 35.

  • Are there accessibility services at Austin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)?

    Yes. AUS provides accessibility services to assist its passengers with limited mobility. Before your flight to California, for wheelchair assistance, you'll have to contact your airline to make reservations. At AUS, passengers with limited mobility will find accessible washrooms, parking garages, elevators and ramps throughout the Airport. Also, the AUS’s floors are smooth for effortless wheelchair mobility. For persons with visual impairments, the Airport's pedestrian footways have contrasting floor and braille signage to help them in finding their way through AUS. Additionally, the Airport’s shuttle services are wheelchair lift-equipped and AUS offers escort services via your airlines to help persons with limited mobility through AUS.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Austin to California?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Austin to California.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Austin to California?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to California from Austin is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Austin to California?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to California with an airline and back to Austin with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Austin to California?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to California from Austin up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Austin to the following destinations at these prices or less: Los Angeles $159 one-way - $238 round-trip; San Francisco $200 one-way - $373 round-trip
  • Morning departure is around 3% more expensive than an evening flight, on average*.
  • Austin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) is one of the airports serving the metropolitan region of Austin. The Airport serves as a base for Southwest Airlines and Allegiant Air, which facilitate flights from Austin to California.
  • San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is one of the airports that serve the metropolitan region of San Francisco. SFO is a hub for Alaska Airlines and United Airlines, which facilitate flights to California from Austin.
  • Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is among the main airports serving the metropolitan area of Los Angeles, and adjacent counties such as San Bernardino, Orange, Ventura, and Riverside County. The Airport serves as a hub for United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Alaska Airlines, and American Airlines and a base for JetBlue, Allegiant, and Southwest Airlines. The airlines facilitate flights to California from Austin.
  • San Diego International Airport (SAN) is one of the airports that serve the County of San Diego. The Airport serves as a base for Alaska Airlines, which facilitates flights to California from Austin.
  • San Jose International Airport (SJC) is among the airports that serve the San Francisco bay Area. SJC serves as a hub for Alaska Airlines, which offers flights to California from Austin.
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Top 5 airlines serving from Austin to California

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Austin to California? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.3
Japan AirlinesOverall score based on 1486 reviews
8.7Crew
7.8Entertainment
7.9Food
8.4Boarding
8.2Comfort
Airline reviews

Great service but food taste and options have gone down a few notches.

8.0 Excellentsupaky, Apr 2024KIX - LAX
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Great service but food taste and options have gone down a few notches.

This airlines is always my favorite. Very consistent customer service and food is good. My last flight with them, I had no idea we landed because it was just that smooth of a land.

At least it was not very cold inside the plane. I noticed there was now a bidet in the bathroom and that’s good! I didn’t like the window seat. Flight was smooth except for 1 turbulence. Plane was on time. Thanks. Food was not that great. Miso and green tea were good! As usual movies were old and there were no changes.

I like the braised beef., miso soup,, and green tea. Very little choices of hollywood movies. The PA announcement in English was not very clear and very soft. I could hardly hear.

More updated movies & Chinese movies. The food sometimes overcooked. Prefer to have more neat snacks in between than just choose from the menu. Please change the menu every now and then. This is my second time flying within one year and the menu didn’t change at all!

Food is lagging. Very poor choice. Like vending machine fast food.

Please change the menu more often. The beef is not tender, more choice in ice cream flavor. Dessert is not good too.

Again I paid for an upgrade on my credit card didn’t get it need a refund. . American I not good at gettin in contact for refunds.

I didn’t like the check in process I had to check in at the counter took too much time . Didn’t give the upgrade my seat .

l enjoyed the variety of good and drink choices. The flight attendants were very quick and efficient to our needs.

There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

Had a broken tray in business class. Crew just shrugged it off.

I didn’t like that I could not select my seat and was assigned a seat when I checked in at LAX

Great experience overall. Check in at Austin was congested as they only have about 6 check in kiosks, one was broken, and there was a lot of Spring Break travelers.

I love the free wifi and headrest screens. I would consider Delta even more because of this but the seats aren't so great. The snacks aren't very good in my opinion. I bought a Bloody Mary and that was great! So just be comfortable with better snacks and the airline world will be yours.

Bag drop off was slow and annoying. Only 2 agents at the entire delta desk, and no one directing traffic for what line to be in, many confused people slowed down the process. Boarding was fine. Seats in Delta comfort plus were fine. Snacks were great! Definitely a bonus. The entertainment system was awful — old, slow, not responsive, and completely unable to play games due to some kind of error. But on the other hand, thank you to Delta for the free WiFi. That made it better.

Everything was very good other than I had selected a specific seat when I booked the flight and they changed it once I checked-in the day before my flight. I was still in first class but lost my aisle seat for a window seat. Being tall, the aisle offers more comfort so I always select an aisle seat.

Flight diverted in SD. Later take off in Seattle by 1.3hrs

Crew was not friendly when I went to request a seat change.

Really impressive staff at airport and on plane, especially given how busy it was

Generally good but there wasn’t any staff available when my luggage didn’t appear at baggage claim in Fresno. It took about half an hour to locate a staff member to open up the locked room where it was being kept.

Do not like the feeling of being in the basic economy. Everyone should feel good no matter what.

Our original business class flight was cancelled so we not only downgraded but we were also spread out across the plane not sitting together in separate middle seats. My poor kids were scared and couldn’t see me on the flight and the crew wasn’t sensitive to the situation and what the airlines did to us. Very dissatisfied with United airlines.

The WiFi didn’t work and the seats are too close together. Very uncomfortable.

So so. Terrible aircraft choice for that leg of the flight.

delay several times and wait extra long to board. no entertainment service because there are problem for some rows. always encounter some delays for the last flight of the day.

On time every leg of the journey and exceptional staff at counter, gate, and on board. I haven’t travelled in US for a long time and was genuinely surprised how pleasant this was.

This was a Lufthansa flight. Disappointing main meal. Very rough over Canada and arrival at FRA. IFE was almost unusable.

Too many fees (but that seems to apply to all airlines nowadays)

For a 22 minute flight all you expect is for it to be safe and comfortable

I arrived to the airport 2 hours before my American Airlines flight was scheduled to take off. I have TSA pre-check. The airport was crazy packed when I arrived. After momentarily standing in the pre-check line, the TSA agent said that I am not pre-check. Of course I said that I am because I entered my KTN number on all my traveling sites and programs. I had to get out of line and go back to the AA counter to discover that American Airlines did not add my KTN to my boarding pass. I had to call TSA to find out my number, then have AA enter it onto my boarding pass. The emblem would not load onto my boarding pass. By this time, I decided to use my Clear in order to get through TSA but the line was ridiculous long. By the time I made through TSA, I missed my 11:08am flight and was re-booked for the 5:30pm. This is after the AA employee told me I should have gotten to the airport early. AA use to be a dependable airline not I use them only if I have too.

Fight crew was not very attentive and the bastions were gross!

Our flight was great we left Kona earlier and got into LAX almost an 1hour earlier as well. LAX AA is in repair so to get out and found our bus to get pick up was a bit confusing.

Plane was good but was delayed. probably not AA fault but caused a 1 hour delay. Seating was cramped.

5 hour flight - full flight - not enough room to use my computer - slightly delayed - Admirals club was excellent quality food, drink made up for flight seating. No food offerred on flight, you ahd to prebook.

We experience delays on departure and connecting flights resulting in 14 hour to our next departure. We were accommodated with a night's stay but was only provided a 12 dollar meals accommodation. The airlines rules state.at least 50 dollars. In any case, it can not make up for the whole day missed on our vacation in Sydney Australia.

I can say I will not be taking this airline again any time soon. Seat were uncomfortable and too tight. Lack of chair screen and little overhead space.

Plane felt so crowded and tightly packed. The chair itself was not comfortable.

Flight was delayed two hours due to crew-scheduling issues.

This time my flight was smooth and uneventful. They started boarding even earlier than it was scheduled. I was pleasantly surprised. Thank you!

The guy with severe body odor sat next to me. For the whole duration of the flight it was a torture. The airline should have better policy on limiting people with bad body odor to board the flight. Passengers should not be the ones to endure bad odor for the whole duration of the flight. The airline should be e the one to ensure decent air quality for ever passenger.

They charged me 212.00 for a heavy check in bag at the gate. The pricing and process was so confusing - as if it was designed to purposefully gouge customers who need to board plane. That experience combined with the outrageous price charged will prevent me from ever flying Spirit again. And I’ll be sure to tell the story to anyone who cares to hear.

The text told me it was changed to Terminal E and Gate D5. But with no one on site to ask questions there was confusion on where to go as all the gates were E's. Then we took the skyline to the D area. We left to get something to eat. No announcement was made but my daughter happened to asked and they told her our gate was moved to D12. I will not fly Spirit again.

The agent at the check in desk was absolutely rude. The rest of the team after that was good, but the check in process at LAS was miserable. The woman at the desk spoke like we were stupid and was rude throughout the process.

Its so random that they only allow 40 pounds on checked bags when all airlines take 55. They then charge you for each 10 extra pounds, so my checked suitcase was $130 and the flight $30 ... its like whattt, im for sure not traveling with Spirit again

Horrendous. Wish they would have just shot me in the leg instead.

So bad. The check in process was laborious and the check in agent didn't seem to know how to manage the process efficiently and was confused about how to check in my son's sports equipment. The baggage fees were outrageous and so expensive. $90 for a carry on bag? And $200 additional for 2 check ins. The security lines were insanely long and the terminal was not very nice in the Spirit area. $5 for a water on board. It was my first and last time flying Spirit - I tried to save $ by flying them due to the accommodating schedule but I should have paid for Southwest, because it would've actually ended up less expensive due to the free bags with Southwest. There were no charging ports on the airplane, no wifi and really uncomfortable seating. The flight crew were great though, courteous and efficient in their boarding. Flight was delayed 1 hour, but we made up 15 minutes in flight.

My experience was better than expected. What I did find not so great was the seats. Very little room, they did not recline and the tray table was the size of a post card. There was no food to try, just standard snacks that you had to pay for and I don’t know of any entertainment. I would fly again even though everything was an upcharge. Flight was on time with little disturbance

thy don't even ofer water we have to buy it for $4.49 and paid for our cary on bags $100 each we never will fly in this company again.

Super cool and laid back, three lovely ladies. Couldn’t ask for better service.

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