I included a handful of drive-probables for each (LA & Phoenix(?) for SD; Miami and possibly NO & Atlanta for Tampa), so that if people go cross-country vs. driving locally, at least there wasn't a hole in the table.
If SWA had an easier way to look at fares for flights so far in advance (I tried, and had to give up when March was about the extent of it's usefulness), I'd have included those figures. SWA is the only frequent-flyer program I belong to, by way of illustration. They're just not choosing to play nice with the airfare search engines (or at least the ones I tend to use); including them would have made a two-hour off-the-cuff research project twice as long.
Definitely just a baseline comparison, but I think it does illustrate that, for the majority of folks looking to attend, it's less expensive to get to Tampa than SD, and even those times when it isn't, the price break of staying on the west coast isn't as substantial as maybe many people think.
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If SWA had an easier way to look at fares for flights so far in advance (I tried, and had to give up when March was about the extent of it's usefulness), I'd have included those figures. SWA is the only frequent-flyer program I belong to, by way of illustration. They're just not choosing to play nice with the airfare search engines (or at least the ones I tend to use); including them would have made a two-hour off-the-cuff research project twice as long.
Definitely just a baseline comparison, but I think it does illustrate that, for the majority of folks looking to attend, it's less expensive to get to Tampa than SD, and even those times when it isn't, the price break of staying on the west coast isn't as substantial as maybe many people think.