Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Des Moines to Mesa. From €145.38, fastest 5h 58m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Des Moines to Mesa costs €145.38 at the cheapest and takes 5h 58m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 1,896 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 28, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 6h 2m | 2h 52m | 3h 10m | €185.99 | 466.4 kg | 3 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Omaha, with 54 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 9h 8mCO2 423.9 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 6h 2mCO2 466.4 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Des Moines to Mesa | FriSep 11 | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | €352.73 | €371.98 | €316.98 | €247.13 | €286.18 | €285.08 | €274.08 | €285.08 | €255.93 | €226.23 | €219.63 | €205.88 | €216.33 | €177.28 |
| Flight | €401.34 | €346.47 | €317.56 | €289.83 | €237.32 | €276.85 | €305.76 | €276.85 | €249.71 | €239.68 | €185.99 | €188.94 | €225.52 | €229.06 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €145.38
Arriving in September changes what you want from a room in Mesa. It is not a thing we sell, so here is who does.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Allegiant Air | €150.59 | 5h 58m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €129.00 | 89% |
| Taxes | €12.90 | 9% |
| Supplier fees | €1.49 | 1% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 1% |
| Total you pay | €145.38 | 100% |
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The fastest journey from Des Moines to Mesa takes 5h 58m door to door, of which 2h 52m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 6h 8m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Des Moines to Mesa is €145.38, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €247.35. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Des Moines to Mesa is by Flight, at €185.99 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 6h 2m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Des Moines to Mesa bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €122.83. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 187 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Des Moines to Mesa, at €185.99. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 28, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Des Moines to Mesa, at €131.12 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
1 operators sell services from Des Moines to Mesa across 1 modes: Allegiant Air. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
33 percent of the services we sell from Des Moines to Mesa are direct. The rest connect at Sioux Falls, Omaha, Las Vegas, Cedar Rapids, with about 53 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Des Moines to Mesa by Flight leave from Des Moines DSM and arrive at Mesa AZA. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Des Moines to Mesa allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
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