More than a little irritated by the ridiculously long and expensive flight back to school (Oregon to Texas), I did comparison shopping.

It's $200 cheaper and 7 hours shorter to fly to Honolulu, Hawaii. It's 2 hours shorter to fly to Auckland, New Zealand, although twice the price. It's barely cheaper and barely shorter to fly to Tokyo. The flight to Santiago, Chile is half again the price but ten minutes less flying time. To Orlando (by way of Texas, although not the right part of Texas) is half the price and half the flying time. $80 more expensive to get to Moscow. Pretty much identical price and flying time to get to Paris. Eight hours shorter to fly to Bahrain.

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