Considering Wiscon and seeing information/advice

[redbird]

If I'm going to Wiscon, I should get plane tickets soon. They are already looking expensive, but I'm not sure whether that's timing, this year versus last, or flying out of Seattle rather than New York. The thing is, a lot of what I'm finding involves getting up unreasonably early (6:50 out of SEA) meaning getting up I don't know when); is this just an artifact of stupid software that will let me specify "depart between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m." but not "anything that leaves between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m." (in which case I will take a deep breath and run umpteen searches and scribble notes on paper) or is it really showing me what's out there and/or halfway affordable, given that I'm looking at flying a significant distance east and making at least one connection?

Also, if there's anything non-obvious and useful that you know about this route, please tell me.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

If I were willing to leave any time between 9 am and 7 pm, I'd just search for the whole day and throw the exceptions out myself.

However, there are two big differences about flying to Madison from Seattle rather than from New York that I hope you're taking into consideration (aside from the question of whether there are nonstop flights from New York, which I don't know, but there certainly aren't from Seattle). One is that it's a lot longer trip - over twice as far - and the other is that you're going east, and thus the time change is not in your favor. If you want to get anywhere in the midwest or east coast anytime before around midnight, you have to leave the west coast in the morning, and early morning if you're changing flights. That's just the way life is out here.