Santa Barbara Muni SBA Airport Overview

Santa Barbara Airport SBA is serving the greater area of Santa Barbara, California, and is an alternative to crowded Los Angles LAX Airport. As a consequence of a tremendous rise in passengers in the last decade, the Airport just opened a new terminal  and intends to relocate & refurbish the current one.
Santa Barbara Airport is located on 500 Fowler Road, 7 miles west of downtown Santa Barbara, a beautiful city on the southern California coast, and situated adjacent to the University of California, and the city of Goleta, and is off Hwy. 101, and 92 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

With  three runways and an estimated 890,000 passengers a year, Santa Barbara Airport is served by major airlines offering direct flights to hub airports throughout the US, with connections around the globe.

Santa Barbara Airport has a new passenger terminals.  (For detailed terminal information, click on 'Terminal Map'.) 

Parking options at Santa Barbara Airport: 
1. A Short-term parking parking lot is right next to the old terminal, and
2. a new Short-term parking lot is serving the new terminal; and adjacent thereto is the
3. Long-term parking Lot 1, accessible off James Fowler Road, and another
4. Long-term parking Lot 2 is on Hollister/Lopez Roads, with daily 24/7 free shuttle service, running every ten mins.
4. Disabled parking spaces are available in the long- and ort-term parking lots at regular rates.
Payment for Long-term lots is by major credit card; for Short-term lots by cash or major credit card.  In front of the passenger terminal and at the exit kiosks are parking pay stations. 
For more parking information call Ampco at 805-967-4566.

Rental cars at Santa Barbara Airport are available from on-site Budget, Enterprise, Hertz & National, with off-airport sevice by Avis (805-683-4715) and Thrifty (805-681-1222) available via shuttle bus.

To get from Santa Barbara Airport to your destination, you can rent a car, take a taxi, a door-to-door shuttle, or a bus:
For the door-to-door Central Coast Shuttle to Santa Barbara & Santa Maria area call 805-928-177, or the Road runner to Ventura Country at 805-389-8196, or outside Ventura county 800-247-7919.
The Santa Barbara MTA bus 11 runs between the Airport and downtown Santa Barbara--the bus stop is on Moffett Road across from the terminal.
 



Santa Barbara Muni SBA Airport Update History

  • Updated SBA Airport Intro page - Dec 25, 2011
  • Updated SBA Airports page - Dec 25, 2011
  • Updated SBA Main Terminals page - Dec 25, 2011

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Santa Barbara Muni SBA Comments

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    I live here in Santa Barbara. Does the Long Term Parking Lot #2 (at the old theater) give 24 hours shuttle service to the new airport or are the times for pickup different..

     

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