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$174 Find cheap flights from Washington Dulles Airport to John Wayne (Santa Ana)

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Dulles Intl to Santa Ana departing on 7/11. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
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Cheap flight deals from Dulles Intl to Santa Ana (IAD-SNA)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Dulles Intl to Santa Ana that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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6:00 am - 12:36 pmIAD-SNA
9h 36m1 stop
6:45 am - 7:56 pmSNA-IAD
10h 11m1 stop
$378Delta
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Wed, Aug 28 - Wed, Sep 4
12:55 pm - 8:09 amIAD-SNA
22h 14m3 stops
7:45 am - 11:20 amSNA-IAD
24h 35m3 stops
Wed, Aug 28 - Wed, Sep 4
11:32 am - 9:29 amIAD-SNA
24h 57m2 stops
3:34 pm - 4:10 pmSNA-IAD
21h 36m3 stops
Tue, Jul 23 - Sat, Jul 27
6:55 am - 11:32 amIAD-SNA
7h 37m1 stop
12:26 pm - 11:10 pmSNA-IAD
7h 44m1 stop
$396American Airlines
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Wed, Sep 4 - Sat, Sep 7
7:16 am - 12:36 pmIAD-SNA
8h 20m1 stop
11:51 am - 11:03 pmSNA-IAD
8h 12m1 stop
$398Delta
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Tue, Aug 27 - Fri, Aug 30
6:55 am - 3:24 pmIAD-SNA
11h 29m2 stops
10:46 am - 11:10 pmSNA-IAD
9h 24m1 stop
$401American Airlines
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Wed, Sep 4 - Sat, Sep 7
7:02 am - 4:34 pmIAD-SNA
12h 32m1 stop
6:55 am - 9:30 pmSNA-IAD
11h 35m1 stop
$449Alaska Airlines
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Mon, Oct 21 - Wed, Oct 23
7:02 am - 4:34 pmIAD-SNA
12h 32m1 stop
10:55 am - 11:59 pmSNA-IAD
10h 04m1 stop
$456Alaska Airlines
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Mon, Oct 21 - Tue, Oct 22
7:00 am - 12:17 pmIAD-SNA
8h 17m1 stop
8:40 am - 10:59 pmSNA-IAD
11h 19m1 stop
$501United Airlines
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Thu, Oct 17 - Sat, Oct 26
7:00 am - 12:17 pmIAD-SNA
8h 17m1 stop
6:15 pm - 5:24 amSNA-IAD
8h 09m1 stop
$502United Airlines
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Thu, Sep 19 - Sun, Sep 22

Flights from Dulles Intl to Santa Ana - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Dulles Intl to Santa Ana to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana?

The average price of all flights from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Santa Ana clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to Santa Ana on a Wednesday and more expensive on a Monday. On your return trip to Washington Dulles Airport, you should consider flying back on a Saturday, and avoid Mondays for better deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Santa Ana?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Santa Ana, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.
The cheapest month for flights from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Santa Ana is September, where tickets cost $394 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and August, where the average cost of tickets is $592 and $584 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Santa Ana?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Santa Ana, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price on the flight from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Santa Ana, you should book around 5 days before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 87 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
The best deals for a one-way ticket found by KAYAK users over the last 3 days were on Delta ($189) and American Airlines ($203). The cheapest round-trip tickets were found on Delta ($378) and American Airlines ($396).

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Low season

January

High season

August

Cheapest flight

$174
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 12% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 19% lower on average.
Flight from Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana

When to book flights from Dulles Intl to Santa Ana

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Dulles Intl to Santa Ana based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking Washington Dulles Airport to John Wayne (Santa Ana) flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Santa Ana?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Santa Ana was $174 for a one-way ticket and $378 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Washington Dulles Airport and Santa Ana?

    A passport is not required to fly from Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana?

    When flying out of Washington Dulles Airport you will be using Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl. You will be landing at Santa Ana, also known as Santa Ana J. Wayne/Orange Cnty.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana?

    SkyTeam, oneworld, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between Washington Dulles Airport and Santa Ana, with oneworld being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Washington, D.C. to Santa Ana, Delta or Alaska Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Washington, D.C. to Santa Ana are Delta and Alaska Airlines. With an average price for the route of $467 and an overall rating of 8.0, Delta is the most popular choice. Alaska Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $676 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana?

    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 Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Santa Ana from Washington Dulles Airport 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 Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana?

    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 Santa Ana with an airline and back to Washington Dulles Airport with another airline. Booking your flights between Washington Dulles Airport and SNA can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Washington Dulles Airport to Santa Ana?

    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 Santa Ana from Washington Dulles Airport up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top 4 airlines serving from Dulles Intl to Santa Ana

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Washington, D.C. to Santa Ana. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Dulles Intl to Santa Ana? 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.
8.0
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 9254 reviews
7.3Food
7.3Entertainment
8.2Boarding
7.9Comfort
8.6Crew
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Being seated next to the engine was awful! I was nauseous the entire trip from pre-take-off, flying to landing. The engine vibration was very strong!

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, Jun 2024PDX - LAX
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Being seated next to the engine was awful! I was nauseous the entire trip from pre-take-off, flying to landing. The engine vibration was very strong!

The crew was the best I’ve had the experience of flying with. A misbehaving child was making things difficult for me with bopping my tray table, taking my snack, and continually tapping or bumping me. The crew quietly and respectfully moved me to another seat, and thanked me for my patience. They couldn’t have been more kind. Their professionalism really stood out to me and I am more than happy to leave a great review for them!

I would have appreciated notification that our flight was moved to another gate LAST MINUTE so that we would not have missed it. We got no such notice and had to spend another night to catch an available flight in the morning, which was huge inconvenience. We will never fly Alaska again.

Flight was delayed 2 hours. It was too cold inside the cabin. My seat mate had no jacket so she was shivering the entire flight. The stewardess says there’s no available blanket.

The airline was way too cold. We were freezing, I don’t know if that is normal. Overall it was pretty good flight. Always flown Alaska Airlines and I am not changing.

Mediocre is best way to describe. Bare bones narrow seats, Dirty pulldown tray, unfriendly cabin crew who were in a hurry to serve tiny drinks and tiny snacks. (Compared to much better Hawaiian Airlines experience, .. no comparison!)

I wasn't impressed with the entertainment selection, and the snack sizes were small. But the entire crew was professional and did a great job. For that I would fly Alaska again.

It was really good and that's why we choose AA over other airlines.

In economy, there was actually a decent amount of legroom and it was shocking to be in a bathroom that actually had a little bit of space! It was far more spacious than Most airlines are today. It was pleasant because of that.

Seats are uncomfortable but let room was adequate. The snack is pretty weak and the staff not particularly friendly.

It was good until there was a 3 hour delay because there was not any pilots to fly the plane.

Had to change aircraft due to a faulty door. Surprisingly it only caused about an hour and a half of delay. Delta handled this situation as well as can be expected.

Your crew could maybe answer the call bell at least one of the times I pressed it. I pressed it first time with 2.5 hours left in our flight bc my partner was hungry and wanted a sandwich. We finally got the sandwich with 40 mins left in the flight.

The Flight crew didn’t serve us until about 1.5 hours into the flight because of turbulence but after it ended it was fine to move around. They served us water only and snacks and then NEVER, NOT ONE TIME came through to collect trash until right before landing about 1.5 hours later. There was absolutely no need for that. They crew was just standing around talking and visiting with each other and really never tried to see if we might want something besides water or even try to come pick up trash. This is VERY unusual for a Delta flight but it was not what I would have expected for a 4 hour flight.

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.

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.

We ended up with seats in the very back. So they did not recline. Have no idea why, we reserved and checked in very early. The isles were very narrow and the seats had very little leg room. But they did give us water, and a snack.

Should have video screens Plane audio was poor and without wired connection hard to understand crew. Should serve more than just cups of water and pretzels on six hour flight. Did not see crew rest of flight. Fix charging sockets to retain charging blocks.

they made me check my carryon. There was space in the overhead bins.

The plane was delayed 2 hours. The wifi did not work. The seat in first class was not comfortable because the bottom felt like it lost all of its padding. And I did not like when the flight attendant made me wait at my seat to use the bathroom and didn't tell me why. If there were too many people using the 1st Class bathroom, she should have told me to go in the back, coach bathrooms. I guess I have to feel fortunate that they found 2 local pilots to still fly the plane tonight after the original pilots ended up at an airport 60 miles away due to high winds.

The crew were really great, but the 4 hour delay in small chunks was the worst.

The control panel for the seat back screen did not work at all after takeoff.

The crew was nice but the people going to Orange County are so entitled. Everyone thinks everything is suppose for be perfect for them. Tough crowd.

How they treated my luggage was horrible. And foods are not edible… Flight attendants were not listening my request. Etc

Just a crappy airline. The same every time. You feel you are a cow on a farm. You are being being whipped and pulled.

Wasn’t very crowded. Seamless processes. No issues traveling with two little kids.

This is by far the worst experience I have had with American Airlines. The start of this trip was a complete disaster. I purposely planned my trip so that I would weather any delays so that I could make very important meeting at the Pentagon. My flight was cancelled because of maintenance and I was put on the first flight the next day but I was late to the meeting. After a long week at the Pentagon I just wanted to go home and my flight home which was early in the day was delayed. Eventually the flight was delayed until the next day. I was not authorized a hotel room because DCA was my point of origin. So I paid for a hotel out of pocket. The flight this morning was boarded then deplaned because the aircraft was hot. The flow of information was not happening in DCA and made it worse when the news was bad. I am going to take a break from American for my next few military flights. Hopefully whatever has been going on with American Airlines will be resolved.

AA1537 the AC was not working properly. It was very hot and uncomfortable.

Overall the flights pretty good. The snacks we’re good and they were plenty of them. Both boarding and deplaning went quickly.

Delayed abs delayed Gate crew giving poor info - we are definitely leaving at —- Ultimately to cancel flight after 4+ hours of delays Just cancel it earlier

The flight was scheduled to depart DCA at 12:30 pm but was delayed twice on the ground so that we were finally scheduled to depart at around 4:00 pm. Once we boarded, it was announced that takeoff would be delayed again to fix a hydraulic problem which delayed our eventual takeoff until around 5:00 pm. Once we departed, it was a smooth flight back to ORD. We did not get any explanation about what caused the original significant delay. In my experience, this happens frequently with AA.

Lots of weather delays that were poorly communicated and managed. I get there are weather delays but they didn’t make it clear what was happening or comfortable on the plane

Everything was on time; the flight attendants and the gate personnel were very pleasant and helpful.

Our second leg to Jackson WY was unable to land due to weather. We were flown back to Dallas after stopping in SLC. We were given hotel rooms and vouchers. We were told that we would be back on the same plane in the morning. Instead we were given a different flight with different seats. Not a good experience. No one knew what was going on.

Perfect flight. On time departure and early arrival. Smooth flight.

Awful! The flight was delayed and we sat on the plane in DCA for an hour because fuel was out in the wrong part of the plane and would not be accessible during flight. So the plane had to be refueled in correct tank. They also allowed someone to get off of the plane. This delayed my six hour flight by an hour and made me miss my connecting flight. I ran to new gate and American Airlines agents new about the delay and even knew that I was trying to make the connection. They knew thru communication with my friend while in flight that I was in the airport and running to the new gate and they still closed the gate and refused to let me on the new flight despite plane still being at the gate. It was horrible and I had to be rebooked on a flight for 24 hours later. This has been a nightmare and if American Airlines can cause customers to be delayed and then have zero empathy as having an on time flight was more important to them than helping a customer who was delayed by no fault of her own, then it's seems that it's not a company that I want to continue to give my loyalty to. I'm so disgusted.

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from Washington, D.C. to Santa Ana found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
7/11Thu
2 stops
24h 55mIAD-SNA
$174
9/4Wed
1 stopDelta
9h 05mIAD-SNA
$189
7/31Wed
2 stops
13h 30mIAD-SNA
$196
7/2Tue
1 stopDelta
7h 14mIAD-SNA
$198
9/4Wed
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
11h 29mIAD-SNA
$203
10/22Tue
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
12h 27mIAD-SNA
$219
11/10Sun
1 stopAlaska Airlines
27h 56mIAD-SNA
$237
7/31Wed
1 stopUnited Airlines
8h 09mIAD-SNA
$246
10/7Mon
2 stopsUnited Airlines
19h 18mIAD-SNA
$252
7/9Tue
1 stopAlaska Airlines
15h 56mIAD-SNA
$264

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Last minute flights from Dulles Intl to Santa Ana

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from Washington, D.C. to Santa Ana that are departing in the next 10 days.
6/11Tue
multi-stopUnited Airlines
8h 15mIAD-SNA
6/18Tue
multi-stopUnited Airlines
10h 14mSNA-IAD
$816
6/14Fri
multi-stopUnited Airlines
7h 54mIAD-SNA
6/17Mon
multi-stopUnited Airlines
10h 14mSNA-IAD
$856
6/11Tue
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
13h 48mIAD-SNA
6/18Tue
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
7h 58mSNA-IAD
$860
6/11Tue
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
12h 26mIAD-SNA
6/18Tue
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
10h 33mSNA-IAD
$865
6/12Wed
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
11h 04mIAD-SNA
6/20Thu
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
7h 58mSNA-IAD
$923
6/13Thu
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
9h 45mIAD-SNA
6/17Mon
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
9h 11mSNA-IAD
$927
6/13Thu
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
8h 30mIAD-SNA
6/20Thu
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
7h 58mSNA-IAD
$935
6/14Fri
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
9h 45mIAD-SNA
6/16Sun
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
9h 36mSNA-IAD
$1,087
6/14Fri
multi-stopDelta
7h 09mIAD-SNA
6/21Fri
multi-stopDelta
7h 54mSNA-IAD
$1,195
6/13Thu
multi-stopDelta
7h 09mIAD-SNA
6/27Thu
multi-stopDelta
7h 16mSNA-IAD
$1,233

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Washington Dulles Airport - Santa Ana Flights

Departure:

Washington Dulles Airport (IAD)United States

Destination:

John Wayne (Santa Ana) (SNA)United States

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John Wayne (Santa Ana) - Washington Dulles Airport

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