lived in Kansas City for 10 months (commuting to STL) commuted to KC to visit the wife (prior to the marriage) for 1.5 years before that. Lots of flights on southwest between KC/STL, after schedules got reduced, i used United through ORD a couple times, AA out of ORD also, not to mention the long way Frontier out of DEN. Also hitched several rides on UA to DEN and back. All in all, i loved Kansas City, and had you mentioned this several months back, i had a nice half duplex w/ a hot tub i woulda sold ya ....