Originally Posted by ProTexana
Right now, for a 2-3 night stay from Aug. 15 forward, fares are $221 R/T on Midwest Express (one-stop) or $355 on AA. I am not seeing the value the Senator is bringing...

This is targeted more towards last minute business travellers. As an example, our firm abandoned a prospective partnership with a Nebraska firm last year, due in large measure to the extremely high cost of last minute airfares between DFW and OMA.
Indeed, for a time, we were routing one guy through Oklahoma City, who then had to fly back through DFW on his way to Omaha... even though it was substantially more inconvenient and wasted a great deal of time, booking him to OKC and back first for no reason was much less costly than if he had simply booked the DFW-OMA roundtrip w/o the OKC sidetrip.