Cheapest Places to Fly From Miami: What MIA Deals Cost

• 24

  Destinations with a sensible MIA deal, 1–29 Oct 2026

• $158

  Median MIA return deal fare across those observations

• 9

  Miami deals in the member feed on 29 Oct 2026

• 55.3m

  MIA passengers in 2025 (Miami-Dade Aviation Department)

The cheapest places to fly from Miami right now

If you live in Miami-Dade and want the cheapest places to fly from Miami, the short answer is a nonstop to Texas. On 23 scan days between 1 and 29 October 2026, Blame the Fare’s deal scanner logged 172 Miami International (MIA) deal observations that pass the feed’s current trip rules, across 24 destinations. The median fare was $158 return, and 72% of the observations were nonstop.

The live picture on 29 October 2026 was similar. The member feed held 9 Miami deals, from $48 (Houston, seven nights from 3 December) to $492 (Reykjavík, eight nights from 1 November), with a median of $221. Six of the 9 were nonstop. The full list is on the deal feed, and the Miami departures page shows what is checked from MIA today.

That makes MIA a strong airport for cheap domestic city breaks and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with a handful of good long-haul fares to Europe. It was weaker for Mexico and South America than you might expect from the second-busiest U.S. airport for international passengers.

Miami destinations by logged deal fare

“Deals logged” counts how many times the scanner recorded a qualifying fare on that route, roughly once per scan day it appeared. A route with one or two observations is a hint, not a pattern, and the table says so rather than hiding it.

Four routes with a single observation are left out of the table: Philadelphia ($66), Las Vegas ($128), Austin ($157) and Seattle ($203). They are real fares the scanner found, but one sighting says little about what the route usually costs. Remember that these are base fares as found: on Frontier, a carry-on bag costs extra, so add it before comparing a Frontier fare with American or Delta.

Dallas, Houston and Baltimore for under $70

Dallas was the most consistent cheap route from Miami. The scanner logged it 23 times between $38 and $77, with a median of $67, for departures from early November to late February. The cheapest sighting was a six-night trip from 2 to 8 December at $38 on 28 October; on 29 October the same dates were in the feed at $77.

Houston Intercontinental was close behind: ten deals between $44 and $69, all Frontier nonstops, for November to early January departures. The 29 October feed had a seven-night trip, 3 to 10 December, at $48. Baltimore/Washington (BWI) appeared five times between $46 and $62. Google Flights labels that route “Washington, D.C.”, but BWI is in Maryland, so price the train into the city before you book.

These are short-haul trips by the feed’s rules, so two nights is the minimum, but most of the cheap Texas fares were for four to six nights. If you only want a weekend, our guide to the cheapest days to fly explains why a Saturday night stay can change the price.

Denver, Las Vegas and the West on one stop

Further west, the cheap fares mostly needed a connection. Denver had six deals from $64 to $128, and the 29 October feed held a six-night trip from 11 November at $128 nonstop. Phoenix ($139 to $159), Minneapolis ($141 to $168), Salt Lake City ($159 to $211; the 29 October feed had seven nights from 8 December at $181) and Los Angeles ($187) were all Frontier one-stop fares.

A one-stop fare to the Mountain West can still be good value, but check the connection time. The 28 October Las Vegas deal, $128 for seven nights from 16 December, had a total journey time of more than 11 hours each way, which the feed flags rather than hides.

St. Thomas, St. Croix and San Juan

For island trips without a passport, St. Thomas and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands were the most frequent Caribbean deals. St. Thomas appeared 21 times between $221 and $303 (median $283), and St. Croix 13 times between $299 and $365. Every one was an American Airlines nonstop. On 29 October the feed had an 11-night St. Thomas trip, 6 to 17 December, at $221.

San Juan was cheaper but rarer: four Frontier nonstop deals at $78, all for late-October departures that have now gone. Treat that as a marker of what a good San Juan fare looks like rather than a price you can still book. For more island ideas, see our guide to cheap flights to Mexico and the Caribbean.

Paris, Reykjavík, Lima and Mexico City

Long-haul from Miami was thin but genuinely useful. Paris Orly appeared twice at $484 return, both French bee nonstops: seven nights from 1 to 8 December, and 12 nights from 26 November to 8 December. On 29 October the provider benchmark for the longer trip was $701. Reykjavík appeared 12 times at $492 on Delta and United with one stop, for trips of five to eight nights.

Lima was $409 with one stop on Arajet, logged twice for the same six-night trip from 31 October. Mexico City deals went to Felipe Ángeles International (NLU), not the main Benito Juárez airport (MEX), on Viva with one stop, from $205 to $239. Felipe Ángeles is a long way north of central Mexico City, so add the ground transfer to the fare.

The feed only shows long-haul fares when the stay is long enough to be worth the flight: four nights for a trip of six and a half to nine and a half hours, and six nights beyond that. That is why you will not see a two-night Paris fare here, however cheap.

Which airlines carry the cheap MIA fares

Frontier dominated the cheap end. It carried 101 of the 172 Miami observations, including every route in the table with a median under $150. American Airlines carried 46, mostly the U.S. Virgin Islands and Boston. United (10), Delta (4), Viva (5), Arajet (2) and French bee (2) made up most of the rest, with two observations carrying no airline name.

Frontier’s own bag rules matter for the comparison. Every Frontier fare includes one personal item up to 18 by 14 by 8 inches and 35 pounds; a carry-on bag is an extra purchase, and Frontier says bags cost more at the airport than when you book. Our guide to carry-on bag sizes by airline compares the limits.

Why some cheap Miami fares never reach the feed

Miami had more raw deal observations than the 172 counted here. Of 391 MIA observations stored in October, 104 were short domestic hops such as Orlando or Atlanta, which the feed does not show because they are not really a trip. Another 22 were stays too short for the distance, and 56 failed the traveller sense check, for example on awkward routing or a price above our own record for the route.

A further 37 went to destinations that did not yet have a reviewed photo, which the feed requires before it shows a card. The rules apply when the feed is read, so the numbers in this guide are what a member would actually have been shown, not every fare a search engine returned.

Getting to MIA by Metrorail, Tri-Rail and the MIA Mover

MIA was the eighth-busiest U.S. airport for total passengers in 2025, with 55.3 million, and the second-busiest for international passengers, with 24.9 million, according to the Miami-Dade Aviation Department’s 2025 rankings, compiled from Airports Council International data.

You do not need to drive. The airport says Metrobus, Metrorail and Tri-Rail connections are at the Miami Intermodal Center / Miami International Airport Station, reached by the free MIA Mover from the third level between the Dolphin and Flamingo garages. Miami-Dade Transit says Orange Line trains run to the MIA station on weekdays; at weekends an Airport Shuttle train runs every 15 minutes between Earlington Heights and MIA. Metrorail fare gates do not accept cash.

Tri-Rail’s Miami Airport station connects to the Metrorail Orange Line, which helps if you live in Broward or Palm Beach County. Blame the Fare does not scan Fort Lauderdale (FLL), so if it is closer, price it separately; our guide to the cheapest airports to fly from explains when a second airport is worth adding. If you are weighing New York airports instead, the guide to the cheapest places to fly from New York covers JFK and Newark, and the guide to the cheapest places to fly from Boston covers Logan.

How to catch a cheap fare from Miami

1. Start with the destination, not the date. Open the deal feed or a map search and shortlist places under your price ceiling.
2. Check trip length. Most cheap MIA fares were three- to six-night returns; move the dates a day either way and watch the price.
3. Add bags and transport. Put the carry-on, checked bag and ground transfer on the same line as the fare, especially on Frontier.
4. Price one alternative airport. Fort Lauderdale is the obvious second check for South Florida.
5. Compare on more than one site. Our hub of the best flight search sites shows which to cross-check before paying.

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