Why do things have to be soooo fricking complicated at times?
It's not enough that when traveling around, I have to look at flights from Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis, Dubuque, and Rockford ...
... and it's not enough that I have to check using different websites like travelocity, orbitz, northwest, american airlines, southwest, etc etc etc ...
... and it's not enough that I have to check rental car rates to and from various such airports and compare the parking fees and gas fees to see if it's worth driving to chicago or dubuque or milwaukee for example or just to fly out of Madison etc etc
... and it's not enough that flying round trip from Chicago to LA is actually more expensive than round trip from Madison to LA that takes the SAME flight from Chicago to LA ...
... and it's not enough that one-way tickets are more expensive than round trip tickets that take THE SAME flights ...
... and it's not enough that there are often exponentially many combinations of all the parameters above ...
...
... NOW, today, I just hit another new one that just made me go hmmmm: Flying THE SAME flights with the same flight numbers, operated by the same American Eagle and American Airlines, there is a $100 per person difference if you reserve the ticket through American Airlines vs. Alaska Airlines (Alaska actually cheaper).