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Best San Francisco Bay Area Flight Deals from Austin

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

San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$108
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$112

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December

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$59
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 1% drop in price.
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Top tips for finding cheap flights to San Francisco Bay Area

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Austin to the following destinations at these prices or less: San Francisco $203 one-way - $385 round-trip
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  • High season is considered to be January, November and December. The cheapest month to fly from Austin is January.

Top 5 airlines serving from Austin to San Francisco Bay Area

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Austin to San Francisco Bay Area. 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.
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8.1
SouthwestOverall score based on 4821 reviews
8.2Boarding
7.2Food
7.7Entertainment
8.1Comfort
8.7Crew
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Fine, but how to board on SW versus othrr airlines, is just lame. Goood staff though and all was solid otherwise.

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Dec 2024AUS - OAK
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Fine, but how to board on SW versus othrr airlines, is just lame. Goood staff though and all was solid otherwise.

The last 30 min or so, they put the heat on full. We thought we were being basted.

Was as expected. Crowed planes. Too many carryons delaying takeoff. But the ride only took an hour and saved me a lot of time SFO is a not a great airport.

Was as expected. Crowed planes. Too many carryons delaying takeoff. But the ride only took an hour and saved me a lot of time SFO is a hell hole of an airport. It is the new LaGuardia. Everything Cobbled together. Security gates closed. Terri directional signage

I will be flying again Southwest Airlines. Friendly crew, comfortable and affordable.

The plane arrived 25 minutes late, and the Wi-Fi was slower than it usually is.

Forget beverage, they didn't even have water for half the passangers?

Can not wait for seating change to reduce the amount of pre boards - it’s disheartening the abuse. And then then deplaning

The crew was nice. Boarding sucked. Instead of loading from the back to the front people just sat wherever and you had to wait for them to move to get to a seat. And the flight was 25 minutes delayed.

I boarded last because of my boarding assignment and was given a middle seat at the back of the plane. I’m 6”1” so it was really tight. I wish I just had a seat assignment instead of a general boarding group. My bag was way at the front and my seat at the back. Was never offered a beverage and had no room to move.

I flew from San Francisco to Honolulu on Hawaiian Airlines. The flight was operated by Alaska Airlines. Everything was fantastic. On the return flight from Honolulu to San Francisco, boarding was chaotic. They called each boarding group 1 through 6 very quickly, and everyone just ran and got in a very long line. There was no enforcement of boarding groups. Carry-on rules were not followed, and by the time I boarded the plane, there was barely any overhead space. I was boarding group 4. The crew was very professional, and the Hawaiian Airlines terminal in Honolulu was beautiful. I wish the rest of Honolulu Airport looked like the Hawaiian Airlines Terminal.

There were no movies, have to pay for internet, only pretzel, cookie, & a beverage for a 7 hr. flight..

Finally get a snack n drinks! Just like the good ole days!

orgiginal scheduled flight ( 2.5 hours connection) was cancelled, was given option to rebook between a 1-hour connection or a next day flight. Missed connection flight, and decided to book last minute with an other airline.

Short flight. Delayed because of ??. Had a water served . Staff was nice.

Crew members were helpful and responsive. However, the toilet in the only main cabin bathroom didn’t work properly.

Wonderful! The Alaska call center representative was really helpful. I accidently made a mistake of picking a flight option for another day. She was extremely helpful. My daughter had a nose bleed during the flight - the crew helped with an ice pack. I wish they had checked afterwards.

The flight was excellent with the exception of being sent from Florida to Seattle before finally being sent from Seattle to Hawaii.

The flight was delayed. Going to and from LAS they had a system issue wherein they had to manually checkin everyone including the ones who checked in earlier. The seats were messed up so the seats of the people who had an earlier check in was taken by the ones who just arrived. The flight was two hours delayed.

Could have re-booked me at check in knowing that I was going to miss my interline connection

We arrived early and finally made it to our gate almost an hour after.

We were delayed 3x and because I didn’t purchase my tickets directly from United Airlines I was told I Have to take care of it myself so I called Underpricer and they helped me but before I changed my flights I took the risk of sticking by what my tickets were and was lucky to have gotten on the original all flight with only 15 mins before take off. not sure if I will do this again

Everything good until we waited for jet bridge at SFO. Then pilot gets on speaker & said it won’t reach plane- too short, need to go to different gate. Then 5 min later, adjusted plane/jetbridge & all ok?!?

Was a pain having to leave the plane and reboard but glad the plane was fixed

We had to wait almost an hour for the wheelchair porter to be ready to pick up my mother. And when she arrived in Newark airport the porter was not there and she started walking with her cane and her poor mobility. When the Newark porter found her they didn't want to transfer her bags to the wheelchair for her.

Great onboard crew. Boarding was a zoo, I got in line before pre boarding in Group 2, still had my bag force checked. WiFi was glitchy all flight. Seat and bathroom are both tiny unless you pay $$$ for first class.

Cabin was pitch black, even during meal service. The reading lights for seat 2E/F did not work, and seat 2E did not recline.

This was a 5 hour flight with no entertainment and with a snack being provided (pretzels and fruit bar), which are both high in carbs and sugar. Nuts would have been a better choice.

Was realllly smooth. It was delayed but we were well informed.

Good plane, crew, and flight. Boarding was a bit chaotic. Bathrooms were unacceptable. United DESPERATELY needs a new terminal at IAD.

My boarding pass wouldn't pull up in the app very easily and had to really dig through my email. That caused a delay in TSA..

Domestic airlines have really fallen from what they used to be.

Overall good. Tight connection in DFW because of gate unavailability upon landing.

RE Food: Wish there was a choice for No Rating. Flew from Honolulu to Los Angeles on a Red-Eye flight (11:00 pm to 7:30 am). Other than a package of cookies with a beverage choice offered soon after take-off, and a beverage choice shortly before landing, no other food choices were offered. Everyone slept or rested for most of the trip. Nothing to rate. RE Entertainment: Everyone was sleeping most of the flight. Only saw one passenger watch about 30 minutes of entertainment on his iPad. I never attempted to access any entertainment options.

Baby cried a lot. Nothing anyone could do about it. Just part of flying.

For coast to coast travel the A321 and even the NEO, even in first class will never be excellent. That would take a B787 or 777 to accomplish.

The flight crew was fantastic! Which the seats had a small TV.

The foot ottoman cushion was missing on my business class seat.. the hydraulics is on its last leg & seat cushions do not have support or paddling. Heavily dented by butts

Flight was on time, no drinks served on the two short flights. Comfortable seats.

also wi-fi never worked attendant said satellite coverage is spotty over water ..... but we were over land!

Delayed each time on a round trip with no significant weather interference. Updates to flight times came after the fact. 30 min behind in boarding and board and phone still show an on time departure. Some mysterious extra 300 miles that came so surprising they had to fuel while we were already on board?

Charges unexpected. For seat that didnt recline. Please reverse extra seat and carryon charge. Bad business that is a bait and switch.

I couldn’t check in because the app didn’t work. It took 3 Frontier employees at the counter to get me checked in. Flight left 3 hours after departure time

The boarding gate was in Terminal D, but the Frontier counter was in Terminal E. So I had to move back and forth between terminals to check in my luggage. This was the worst experience that I had in terms of flights.

Stop changing gates at sfo. When you are elderly going back for it’s not fun.

There was no easy way to check in. I don't want to install an app to checkin. I will use alaska from now on because they have a web check in method that is easy.

Horrible! The short distance flight ended up taking 5 hrs! There was a 3 hr delay for the flight to take off and there was a 70 min wait on the tarmac for some bogus reason that the pilot said the gate he was supposed to board was taken up. After a 30 min wait he said the plane that was supposed to push out of the gate called a medical emergency and 40 min later he ended up boarding another gate. For the initial 3 hr delay there was no information/alert about the gate or delay in the app or the boards up until the boarding time and even beyond! Had to walk all the way to the end of the terminal to find the frontier staff to ask what was going on. Avoid this airline at all costs! If you have carryon bags or checked bags , their prices come equivalent to the prices of more reliable airlines. They are the worst in timeliness at 60% (reported as delayed) this year (check the data) by a high margin even compared to the second worst airline. If you are ok with having a miserable flight experience with the odds close to flip of a coin, feel free to try them. If you value your time , money and flying experience, stay away.

I went to the Frontier counter in San Jose at 1030am or so on Sunday 10/13/24 to see if I could get an earlier flight to San Diego in lieu of my reserved 630pm flight. One thing led to another, and I was able to obtain an open seat for about $ 56. on the earlier flight. Fine. Then the agent asked if I "was checking a bag". Not knowing that carry-ons cost extra per Frontier policy, I thought that she meant a regular checked bag. Therefore, I said no. Once I got to the gate, the same gate agent who sold me a ticket told me that I had to pay $99 for a carry-on, and that all bags were extra on Frontier. Having never flown on Frontier, I was not aware of this. Part of the issue was that she was not a native English speaker, so there was a miscommunication as to what "bag" meant. I would have preferred for her to have clearly let me know at the front counter that any bag including a carry-on cost $99. It would have had the same outcome, as I had to take my carry-on. But it got hectic at the last minute at the gate itself. The baggage policy should have mentioned "including carry-ons" when we first spoke.

Most horrible airlines. Please avoid it. It's ok to spend $50 extra for delta, united or Alaska

Airline changed the gate from Terminal A to Terminal D which is quite far and only sent a text message few minutes before boarding. Around 50 people missed their flight and as plane didn’t wait for them.

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Recent round-trip flight deals

 
These are the cheapest round-trip flights from Austin to San Francisco Bay Area found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
1/27Mon
1 stopFrontier
11h 43mAUS-SFO
1/29Wed
1 stopFrontier
6h 19mSFO-AUS
$108
1/8Wed
1 stopFrontier
21h 54mAUS-SJC
1/9Thu
1 stopFrontier
25h 31mSJC-AUS
$112
1/9Thu
1 stopAmerican Airlines
8h 12mAUS-SJC
1/14Tue
1 stopAmerican Airlines
5h 49mSJC-AUS
$136
1/10Fri
nonstopUnited Airlines
4h 06mAUS-SFO
1/13Mon
nonstopUnited Airlines
3h 32mSFO-AUS
$173
1/10Fri
nonstopUnited Airlines
4h 08mAUS-SFO
1/13Mon
1 stopUnited Airlines
6h 11mSFO-AUS
$178
1/11Sat
nonstopAlaska Airlines
4h 07mAUS-SFO
1/12Sun
1 stopAlaska Airlines
9h 33mSFO-AUS
$182
1/22Wed
nonstopAlaska Airlines
4h 07mAUS-SFO
1/30Thu
1 stopAlaska Airlines
13h 25mSFO-AUS
$207
2/15Sat
1 stopAmerican Airlines
5h 29mAUS-STS
2/18Tue
1 stopAmerican Airlines
5h 17mSTS-AUS
$208
2/14Fri
2 stopsSouthwest
8h 05mAUS-SFO
2/18Tue
1 stopSouthwest
7h 10mSFO-AUS
$330
1/9Thu
2 stopsSouthwest
8h 10mAUS-SFO
1/15Wed
1 stopSouthwest
4h 45mSFO-AUS
$355

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from Austin to San Francisco Bay Area found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
1/21Tue
1 stopFrontier
9h 55mAUS-SFO
$59
1/7Tue
1 stopFrontier
9h 57mAUS-SFO
$60
1/13Mon
1 stopAmerican Airlines
5h 49mAUS-SJC
$68
1/9Thu
nonstopAlaska Airlines
4h 07mAUS-SFO
$87
1/23Thu
1 stopAlaska Airlines
5h 45mAUS-SJC
$119
2/19Wed
nonstopUnited Airlines
4h 02mAUS-SFO
$119
3/20Thu
nonstopUnited Airlines
4h 08mAUS-SFO
$149
2/19Wed
nonstopSouthwest
3h 55mAUS-SJC
$180
1/15Wed
nonstopSouthwest
3h 55mAUS-SJC
$188
12/28Sat
1 stopAmerican Airlines
6h 09mAUS-SFO
$248

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Last minute flights from Austin to San Francisco Bay Area

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These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from Austin to San Francisco Bay Area that are departing in the next 10 days.
12/24Tue
multi-stopFrontier
17h 19mAUS-SJC
12/31Tue
multi-stopFrontier
8h 30mSJC-AUS
$284
12/23Mon
multi-stopFrontier
11h 22mAUS-SFO
1/8Wed
multi-stopFrontier
27h 31mSFO-AUS
$317
12/25Wed
nonstopUnited Airlines
4h 06mAUS-SFO
1/3Fri
multi-stopUnited Airlines
6h 26mSFO-AUS
$507
12/25Wed
multi-stopSouthwest
7h 55mAUS-SFO
1/3Fri
multi-stopSouthwest
7h 40mSFO-AUS
$541
12/23Mon
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
9h 40mAUS-SFO
1/8Wed
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
23h 36mSFO-AUS
$543
12/25Wed
multi-stopUnited Airlines
7h 08mAUS-SFO
1/2Thu
multi-stopUnited Airlines
5h 55mSFO-AUS
$546
12/25Wed
nonstopAlaska Airlines
4h 03mAUS-SFO
1/3Fri
nonstopAlaska Airlines
3h 37mSFO-AUS
$577
12/25Wed
multi-stopSouthwest
7h 55mAUS-SFO
1/3Fri
multi-stopSouthwest
7h 30mSFO-AUS
$586
12/24Tue
nonstopAmerican Airlines
4h 03mAUS-SFO
1/4Sat
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
5h 45mSFO-AUS
$677
12/22Sun
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
6h 09mAUS-SFO
12/29Sun
nonstopAmerican Airlines
3h 37mSFO-AUS
$712

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