off on a tangent, but seeing that begs the question of JUST how much of a subsidy SAT is getting. When I flew to OMA last week, the fare on an SAT-IAH-OMA ticket was close to half the IAH-OMA segment of the flight...

Instead, I got an even lower price on Priceline but got stuck on UA routed through ORD...a flight pairing that really SUCKED and gives me little to look forward to post-merger.