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Considering Wiscon and seeing information/advice

( Apr. 29th, 2013 08:15 pm)
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.
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Unreasonably delighted

( Oct. 9th, 2006 11:21 am)
I followed a link in the Frommer's daily travel newsletter, and thought "Oh cool, I can fly into Toronto Island again."

Not quite yet: it's a brand-new airline, and what they have up so far is Toronto-Ottawa flights. And I've little reason to visit Toronto these days (with [livejournal.com profile] alanro on the other side of the continent, to say nothing of the border). Nonetheless, I am pleased: flights into central Toronto, not Pearson, and a quick ferry ride to downtown and an easy subway connection. Once upon a time (in the 1980s), I could get easy flights from LaGuardia to Toronto Island (which they're referring to as Toronto City Centre, but it's on one of the little harbor islands), and clear customs in about three minutes, because most of the flights were Canadian domestic so customs was never busy. That was on 32-seat propjets, which I was perfectly happy with but some people don't like; Porter Air is using 70-seaters.
  • Current Mood: pleased
  • Current Location: New York (thinking fondly of Toronto)
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Unreasonably delighted

( Oct. 9th, 2006 11:21 am)
I followed a link in the Frommer's daily travel newsletter, and thought "Oh cool, I can fly into Toronto Island again."

Not quite yet: it's a brand-new airline, and what they have up so far is Toronto-Ottawa flights. And I've little reason to visit Toronto these days (with [livejournal.com profile] alanro on the other side of the continent, to say nothing of the border). Nonetheless, I am pleased: flights into central Toronto, not Pearson, and a quick ferry ride to downtown and an easy subway connection. Once upon a time (in the 1980s), I could get easy flights from LaGuardia to Toronto Island (which they're referring to as Toronto City Centre, but it's on one of the little harbor islands), and clear customs in about three minutes, because most of the flights were Canadian domestic so customs was never busy. That was on 32-seat propjets, which I was perfectly happy with but some people don't like; Porter Air is using 70-seaters.
  • Current Mood: pleased
  • Current Location: New York (thinking fondly of Toronto)
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