We should try to book this before we go so we are sure to get back to Madrid on May 13th, in time for our flight home on the 14th. RailEurope.com doesn't let you book trips in Spain more than 60 days in advance. RyanAir quotes us a price of 25.29 euros and has flights at 8:15 and 22:20, neither times the best, although the 8:15 am flight is cheaper at 22.61 euros, paid with a debit card or 23.11 with a credit card. It says that the fare is 10.99€ and the Spanish airport taxes are 11.62€. Iberia charges $174 so it's not in the running.
I'd actually prefer the train or bus so I could see the countryside and have the time to decompress before flying over what we walked in 2 seconds. However, I was looking at the bus schedule at ALSA and all the trips take 8-10 hours!! It goes up to Coruna and has 20 stops so scratch that! But there are 7 buses a day so in case another form of transportation gets cancelled hopefully we could still take the bus.
There are three trains to Madrid from Santiago, one at 9:05am, one at 5:05pm and then an overnight trenhotel that leaves at 10:33 pm and gets into Madrid at 8:02. The day trains take about 6 hours so we'd take the earlier one at 9:05am and arrive at 2:56pm. At 54.20 € it's more than RyanAir but we'd get to see the countryside. It looks like we will have to think about this.
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