Branson Airport?
 

Can't believe the price of an airline ticket from RDU (NC) to Branson! $600+ !! Is there another airport besides SGF that is cheaper and close by... I will not have a car and will be relying on shuttles. Please advise! Thanks.

Sue,<BR><BR>Would you consider flying into St. Louis and renting a car? Not sure when you are going, but I just checked Orbitz for a midweek September departure, and the fare was $181! Non-stop on American. You could get a nice car for $400 a week!<BR><BR>I think it's about 250 miles from St. Louis to Branson and it's not a bad drive.

I went to Branson in April. Only ONE airline flies into Branson/Springfield from St. Louis. We flew in on a prop jet to Branson/Springfield AP & but flew out on what looked like a 30 seater 40's bomber. It was horrible. We rented a car at Branson/Springfield AP & drove into Branson. Nice quick drive about 45 minutes.

I agree: fly into another place and rent a car and drive to Branson. St. Louis is about a 3.5 hour drive. Tulsa, OK will be about the same length drive, just from a different direction.

Kansas City is also the same distance.

Is it true that the control tower there is a guy standing on a 6' ladder holding a painted ping pong paddle and a flashlight?

Oh, Jo, how melodramatic! The plane may have been a prop but the oldest props used by US airlines were built in the late 1970s.

Please JJ, don't assume that I am melodramatic! I have flown a lot of places & never have I been on a plan that had fold down seats, 10 rows of 2 seats on the right side of the plane and 10 rows of 1 seat on the left side of the plane. The seats 'folded down'. This thing looked like a bomber. No arm rests and the floors had a rubber mat.<BR>Believe me, it was scarry and I probably won't do it again if that is the only way they will fly me back to St. Louis!<BR>Jo

Tulsa is closer to Springfield than St. Louis. And by the way, Springfield/Branson Airport is not as big as St. Louis or Tulsa, but it is fairly large and nice for a city the size of Springfield (150,000+) It is one of the fastast growing airports in the country. I've flown of SGF many times and never on a prop plan.