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Los Angeles
Los Angelesnonstop$114
San Francisco
San Francisco2 stops$165
San Diego
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San Jose
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Palm Springs
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Fresno
Fresno1 stop$208
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Flight from Houston George Bush Airport to San Diego

FAQs - booking California flights

  • What are the most eco-friendly airlines flying from Houston George Bush to California?

    If you wish to fly more sustainably, then you should consider taking the shortest flight, as this releases the least amount of carbon into the atmosphere. Some airlines though, have taken measures to ensure that they produce less amount of carbon. On this route, Spirit Airlines is the most suitable airline, operating from IAH to LAX without a layover. This airline produces around 800 kg of carbon per flight which is the least carbon released on this route.

  • What family services are offered at Houston George Bush Airport?

    Families are welcomed at Houston George Bush Airport. The airport takes care of families, setting aside children’s area where children can play and be care for. If you are looking for a place where your kids can play without upsetting other older travellers, then there is a children’s area at Terminal D, across from gates D8 and D9.

  • What are the most common layover cities for flights from Houston to California?

    If you are looking to explore and wish to take a flight with a layover, then Dallas is the most common layover city for this route, with most single-layover flights stopping here. Most double-layover flights as well, make a stopover here. American Airlines operating the flights making a stopover in this city, Dallas at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW).

  • Are there nonstop flights from Houston to California?

    Yes, depending on which airport you choose as your destination. If you are looking to fly nonstop on this route, you will find flights from IAH to LAX. The flights are available daily and are offered mainly by United Airlines and Spirit Airlines. United Airlines is the major airline flying this route, offering at least two daily nonstop flights to LAX while Spirit Airlines come second with the second most daily nonstop flights to LAX.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Houston George Bush Airport 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 Houston George Bush Airport to California.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to California from Houston George Bush 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 Houston George Bush Airport 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 Houston George Bush Airport with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Houston George Bush Airport 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 Houston George Bush 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 tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Houston George Bush Airport to the following destinations at these prices or less: Las Vegas $81 one-way - $148 round-trip; Los Angeles $113 one-way - $208 round-trip
  • Morning departure is around 6% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*.
  • Houston George Bush Airport (IAH) is the main airport in Houston, serving the Greater metropolitan area of Houston. The airport serves as a base of operations mainly for United Airlines which is the main airline offering flights from Houston to California.
  • For those looking for flights from Houston to California, note that this route is mostly served by three airlines: United Airlines, American Airlines and Spirit Airlines. There are several other airlines that operate this route, depending on which California airport you choose as the destination.
  • If you want to have a rest and relax before your flight to California, then you can do so at United Airlines United Club at IAH. The lounge is open to United Airlines passengers and all passengers who are willing to pay at the entrance. The lounge is located at terminals A, B, C and E.
  • Los Angeles Airport (LAX) is the main airport in California. The airport is located around 29 km southwest downtown of Los Angeles. The airport serves the state of California. The airport serves as a hub for United Airlines, Delta Airlines and American Airlines.
  • Los Angeles Airport is majorly served by three airlines from IAH namely: American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines. These airlines offer both nonstop and connected flights from IAH to LAX. Travelers can therefore make either choice on their preferred airline for the flights on this route.
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Top 5 airlines serving from George Bush Intcntl to California

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from George Bush Intcntl 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.
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EVA AirOverall score based on 1488 reviews
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Overall great experience. All four members of my family were seated together without paying extra to reserve seats. Everything was on time. Food was great and healthy. Media entertainment was good. Rock music could be added as a listening choice. No issue with baggages. Flight attendants were friendly and helpful. I would recommend EVA to friends and family.

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Overall great experience. All four members of my family were seated together without paying extra to reserve seats. Everything was on time. Food was great and healthy. Media entertainment was good. Rock music could be added as a listening choice. No issue with baggages. Flight attendants were friendly and helpful. I would recommend EVA to friends and family.

The crew was very helpful. Food was prepared with great care and tasted wonderful. Movie selection was a bit limited. The bedding on the seat is a little too thin for sleeping.

Their announcement was not quite clear in Chinese. The rest is pretty good.

The hygiene of the bathrooms were terrible. Urine smells leaked out into the cabin and the seats were really tight, even for a petite woman like myself. Flight attendants did not go through the cabin enough to offer refreshments.

I was expecting that movie selection and food would have been better. Everything else was great.

The type of the food requested (Asian vegetarian) was not properly met with. They have very limited snack items that may compensate for the main meals.

The quality of the food is pretty good. Thank you, EVA Air.

Fast and efficient boarding. Flight was on time. Service was very good for our long flight. First time flying with this airline and I would highly recommend.

Eva Air's Business Class is pretty decent. With the given price, I think that the food can be better.

Pleasant, comfortable, and entertaining. All told, ZERO issues with it. And sadly, so far the flight was WAY more comfortable than the hellhole that is "Lambug Beach Resort" at Badian Beach!

Crew was very cooperative and professional. Passenger's first checked in bag should be free.

My seat was broken. WiFi didn’t work. Gate crew at HOU were rude and condescending. Treated all the passengers badly. Bad experience, United.

This flight was delayed multiple times and eventually canceled around 2-3ish. Original take off time was around 10:30am. By 3, there were no other options out of Houston, so stuck in Houston for from 3pm - 11am the next day.

There was a group of school age passengers that were very loud and unruly with their chaperones were no where to be found.

Trip was smooth bumpy from the wind but no issues at all the crew attendant was very pleasant and had great customer service

I liked everything about the flight. The service was excellent!

Delayed a day due to snow storm. Was upgraded. That kind of made up for significant delays from FLL to COS with no compensation or acknowledgement.

The leg space between me and the seat in front of me was excellent.

Over two hours wait to get wheelchair assistance from arrival to the departure gate for LA was unreasonable even though there appreared to be heavy demand.

The seats were uncomfortable. The flight was almost 9 hours and they didn’t serve lunch

My husband and I pre-ordered our food, but they did not have my husband’s order, and my cheese plate was very average. I asked for a blanket and was told they don’t carry blankets on domestic routs. The flight was on time and smooth!

There were delays on both ends. It made it less than excellent. This plane was great though

Everything was great except for the wifi was junk. Crew was super friendly and helpful

Attendants were rude. Scowling. Seats were miserable and we paid extra.

Left from gate 30 minutes before flight. Never been late to a flight ever. It says 15 minutes before explicitly on the ticket.

Was as expected. Good leg room on planes - much appreciated.

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.

Experienced flight cancelations and delays in 5 days. They seem pretty common to AC. Experienced with one of AC's check-in agents at the counter of a big liar. She lied and acted (yes like acting in a movie) that an early flight was fully booked and refused to rebook me, but my flight was delayed two hours so I could not make my connection. Later, I got help at the gate to switch the early flight (Big thanks to that agent). Ater boading, I found the early flight was only 2/3 full meaning there was almost one vacant seat in a 3-person seater, and multiple empty 3-seaters. AC is wired that it is filled with good and bad employees. BTW, AC employees seem never smile, or they don't know how.

The food was horrible the flying attendance hardly made any checks and the seats were very tied ..

My mother, 80years old, had arranged for wheelchair assist to and from the aircraft cabin and in the airport but, no one showed up for her to de-plane. Apart from Air Canada having a reputation of being late for every leg of its flight so nothing was new this time so this time they did worse by not assisting seniors. I guess our whole family is done with this airline

last minute was rebooked. This rebooking made me miss my connection, added a stop in my itinerary without my approval, and had me arriving 10 hours later to my destination...for a delay that was 2 hours. To boot, my final flight from London to Athens booked me in a middle seat, where I originally booked all aisle seats. This was incredibly uncomfortable for a 24 hour journey and made me incredibly upset.

Seating for almost 3 hours in the plan before aircraft takeoff. Very exhausted .

The bathroom did not have hand soap. That is unacceptable.

Moderate size plane, not completely full, easy boarding, some rows with just 2 seats so a couple can have a row to themselves

The experience was generally above average. The only downside was the absence of WiFi during my flight from Vancouver to San Francisco.

Headphones for the movies have too much bass and can't be adjusted. Almost impossible to hear. Great movie selections but can't really watch them because you can't hear them. Also the system is very slow.

United force you to download their App to do the check-in.

Terrible leg room, seats don’t recline, delayed flight, and even water isn’t free onboard

Flight was good and clean but delayed over an hour on the return flight.

Flight got diwngraded last minute and left us stranded. I was told I’ll be given credit for my luggage and seat upgrades but haven’t got anything yet

It was nice! There was a very unhappy child in front of us and the flight attendant did a great job calming the child. I was impressed.

The flight was on time and nice as always for me with spirit but the cabin crew were not good. They left the lights on on a red eye for the entire flight.

They stuck us with multiple extra fees. I will never fly spirit again

Arrived 3 hours early and never made it past baggage drop

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.

The crew was courteous and are very well prepared for the job.

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.

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