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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Flying into SNA is usually significantly more expensive, especially if you’re buying flights for four.
Wouldn’t recommend it unless saving an hour of your time on the day you get there and the day you leave is worth $800-1000 dollars to you.
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I'm not sure about $200/pp being an average unless you're maybe booking very last minute. We've done that trip on westjet multiple times in the last few years and the premium has generally been $20-$60 per person.
I checked westjet for this July (13-20) and SNA was $483 pp and LAX for $489pp boyh directs. LAX is a bit cheaper if you take the late flight and stay overnight in Vancouver but that's pretty unpleasant.
Those prices are representative, imo, some weekdays LAX was cheaper, but I don't think any date combinations I saw were close to $200 pp.
Part of it is that AC stopped flying from here to LAX, so LAX prices are up.
Anyway, for my family of 4 I'm willing to pay $200 more total for SNA - we generally don't rent a car for DL (stay within walking distance, get a few groceries delivered, eat most meals out) and so just the Uber savings to-from cover most of that.
And the cheapest flight out of LAX is usually the early morning one. Taking an early morning flight out of LAX with kids when you are staying in Anaheim is a terrible way to end a vacation, because you have to get them up really early so they're tired and grumpy.
For $1000 more I agree I'd do LAX but that hasn't been my experience since westjet started the direct to SNA.