No, there were 2700 flights cancelled Thursday, 5900 Friday, 3400 Saturday, and 3100 Sunday. Already 1700 and climbing today. Somewhere around 17,000 flights cancelled in 5 days with over 1/4 million passengers impacted. Everywhere is impacted, entire airports have closed (Seattle, Buffalo).

Normally I try to stay in the southern airports out of Springfield in winter, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte. Usually it’s Dallas because American has the most presence at SGF and Dallas has onsite hotels and more food options. If I hit trouble I can still route through Charlotte or Chicago.

The real issue is traveling without an emergency strategy, look into credit cards with trip delay and cancellation protections if you can.

Vantage Roof top bar at sunset.

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Roaring river is pretty awesome with hiking and outdoorsy stuff like trails and such, and it's only an hour and a half from (Springfield)

the convenience of flying in or out of SGF has to be weighed against the increased potential for delays due to layovers. i have to travel a lot for work, and have started driving to XNA or MCI specifically for the nonstop flights. time-wise it’s about the same, but you can usually save quite a bit of money as well (especially at MCI).

for instance, SGF to NYC is ~$550 with a layover, while XNA is about $100 less for nonstop. meanwhile, MCI is usually less than $200 for a nonstop, which leaves you more than enough for a rental car if you need one.

Agreed, though I've only used them for car loans. Not sure how they are for regular banking but I imagine they're good with it too.

Some of the lookouts and glades along Glade Top Trail.

We have our mortgage and savings with them. No issues.

Second volt. My family has been using them since the 70s and has some decent perks (regularly have free shot at the yearly member meeting or in lobby)

I’ve always had good experiences flying into and out of SGF on airlines. But that was a huge winter storm that affected a large portion of the US and you get a cascading effect of cancelations and delays even if the weather is ok a day later. I’m sorry you have had a difficult journey.

I’ve been with them since 2006, so I’m not sure what the fresh start checking is. But I noticed years ago that my statements were showing $1 charges after I’d use my debit card, so I called and asked. They said after so many debit charges that they’ll charge you $1 for each one after that for the rest of that statement period. So I just charged it as credit or used my low balance credit card through them to pay for things in order to bypass that.

Other than that, they’ve been fine.

I tried to talk to someone about a home loan 4 times before I got sick of rude people and being blown off. I was so surprised because I had banked there for 6 years since I was a teenager. That one kinda put me off but over all I do like the bank

I've never had that issue. Is that with their fresh start checking?

Except they charge you a dollar for using your debit card more than 12-13 times in a month. I charge everything as credit so they can’t do that.

This is where I found and have been since I moved here. I love Multipli.

I don’t know where in CA you live but there are direct flights at least once a week between Springfield and LA. You might have better luck trying for that flight and then get a connecting one closer to your hometown. That way you don’t have the layover.

We’ve lived here two years and have had great experiences flying out of Springfield , but we’ve never traveled at the holidays so I don’t know what’s normal then. I feel like there are always news stories, though, about the craziness of air travel at the holidays — bad weather, canceled flights, people stuck at airports, etc. so it may just be the time of year you’re flying (which you can’t help — I mean, of course you want to be with family at Christmas).

I’m sorry you’ve had this experience twice.

Perhaps not this time of year, but Roaring River State Park is amazing.

If you're flying from a small airport to SGF, yeah, it sucks. There's a lot of moving parts that all have to align.

It’s okay, I learned my lesson. Watching the weather it looked way better today, so I thought it would be fine. I also didn’t know that they would run out of airport hotel rooms with the shuttle service. And flying Christmas Day is typically less crowded than flying in the days leading up to it, so I thought it would be okay. I just wish the airport had canceled my flight before I flew half way across the country just to get stuck. If a flight isn’t cancelled, me and a lot of other people are still going to attempt to make it happen.

>or have I just had bad luck the last few trips?

Not to rub salt in a wound but thats not bad luck but bad planning. This wasn't a surprise storm, it's one of the busiest days of the yeat to travel and you dont have the funds for an emergency situation ($80 Uber).

I second BluCurrent. Best one out there

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I've got Telcomm as well and I've been pretty happy with them.

One thing that I'll mention is that I just have a savings and checking account and I don't know how they are for loans. Their lending practices may be completely different.

Foundation Credit Union

Seconding Telcomm! The only thing I wish they did was refunding all ATM fees charged by other banks.