How can I easily compare the affordability of two departure airports with respect to a specific set of airports I frequently fly to?
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How can I easily compare the affordability of two departure airports ...
By looking at prices on Google Flights for durations, dates & booking classes that are representative of your specific flight plans, populating a spreadsheet, and looking at the results.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be snarky here. Google Flight's "price on calendar feature" and specifically the prize graphs are great tools to effectively display a large set of flight prices and quickly distill it to a single number. I just looked up SFO/SEA to TPE/HKG/MNL for Jan + Feb, and it took me less than two minutes, a lot less than writing this answer :-)
If you want to get really fancy and find the absolute lowest price for both airports at the same time, you can use ITA Matrix instead, but it'll take a you a few minutes longer.
FWIW: I didn't see any meaningful difference in my quick research. Differences seemed less than 10% and just "noise".
There is more than just price to pick a "preferred" airport.
- SFO serves way more international destinations than SEA, including all of your targets (SEA currently doesn't serve HKG or MNL) so it's better for non-stop.
- SFO is a hub for United, which serves all of your destinations. So if you fly a lot (or some premium cabin) you would be much more likely to accumulate benefits and status. While the airlines have devalued their loyalty programs a lot in recent years, it can still be fairly valuable in the right circumstances. SEA's only hub airlines is Alaska, which is North America only (plus Costa Rica).
- Getting to/from the airport: That will depend a lot on where you live relative to the airport and/or public transit, but it's often a non-trivial part of the overall trip cost.
Needless to say: housing is substantially more expensive in the Bay Area, so unless you fly a whole lot AND pay everything out of your pocket (and not on company/business dime), the difference in actual ticket prices will not make a meaningful difference and it feels like the tail wagging the dog.
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