Atlanta (ATL) – Santa Ana (SNA)
- Distance
- 3,088 km
- 1,919 mi · 1,667 nm
- Flight time
- 4 h 43 min / 4 h 9 min
- Average gate to gate: ATL → SNA / back
- Time difference
- 3 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 388 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (229 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 301,447
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · +0.5%
- Flights / week
- 39
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 85%
- 354,138 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 1
- DL
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from ATL
- 280°
- Heading from SNA
- 81°
- Halfway point
- 34.81, -101.14
- Great-circle km
- 3,081 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air ATL → SNA
- 4 h 14 min
- In the air SNA → ATL
- 3 h 42 min
- Clocks
- Santa Ana is 3 h behind Atlanta
The estimate for a route without real times is 4 h 25 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 31,103 |
| Sep 2025 | 29,244 |
| Oct 2025 | 26,271 |
| Nov 2025 | 23,112 |
| Dec 2025 | 23,335 |
| Jan 2026 | 21,808 |
| Feb 2026 | 19,828 |
| Mar 2026 | 22,933 |
| Apr 2026 | 23,342 |
| May 2026 | 26,266 |
| Jun 2026 | 26,549 |
| Jul 2026 | 27,656 |
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| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 208 |
| Sep 2025 | 204 |
| Oct 2025 | 174 |
| Nov 2025 | 155 |
| Dec 2025 | 155 |
| Jan 2026 | 152 |
| Feb 2026 | 140 |
| Mar 2026 | 155 |
| Apr 2026 | 154 |
| May 2026 | 178 |
| Jun 2026 | 173 |
| Jul 2026 | 182 |
Airlines flying ATL–SNA nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 39 | 100% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Boeing 757-200 · 2,030 flights
Also carried: 17 tonnes of freight and 0 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 78.3%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 17 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 1%
- Flights counted
- 2,066
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Delay minutes by cause: airline 58% · aircraft arriving late 21% · air traffic system 19% · weather 2% · security 0%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $539
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $479
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 85% of passengers · $568
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 1% of passengers · $167
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $442 · Q3 2025 $452 · Q4 2025 $496 · Q1 2026 $539).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $550, likely $476–$627
The average fare paid we expect a year after Q1 2026, the newest DOT quarter. On this route, past forecasts made this way fell inside the range 90% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 5.1%). An estimate from US DOT data: not a price you can book, not a guarantee, not advice on when to buy. How the outlook works
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 1a (airline ticket sample, US domestic airport pairs). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 3,081 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.
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