The only airlines here are American, Continental and Southwest.
Continental and American had the same fares no matter which site we checked: Priceline.com, Cheapotickets.com, Travelocity, Orbitz, etc....... $580.00 and up without the fees and taxes.
When I checked Southwest it was $109 there to just about any city (nothing in South Carolina) and $129 return. We decided to save some money and fly into Raleigh and rent a car and drive down to the beach. We still save a lot of money doing the car rental and splitting it and the fuel.
So, that is why we are doing the Southwest deal. If there were other airlines here I could do something else. I did not want to fly to one airport and jump onto another airline, it saved about $150.00 over the regular American or Continental price but then you have to spend all day traveling and if you are late getting the bags and checking into the other airline or something else happens, you get screwed and probably miss your flight and have to try again the next day. Not too many flights there from around here.
Not worth the chance and possibly missing a flight.
It kind of sucks when you only have a choice of 3 airlines to deal with in your city. O Well.