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Fly to Nashville For A Taste of Country
Social Flights offers service into Nashville from Branson, Milwaukee, Austin. We also offer flights from any where your group or organization originates. Take advantage of the taste of country package or any of the exciting vacation packages below.
Country music fans get a taste of Nashville’s most popular attractions when they visit Gaylord Opryland Resort!
Availability: Select dates through October, 2012
(Note: This package is not available October 5-7, 2012, due to the Opry’s 87th Birthday Celebration)
Duration: 2 nights (extra nights may be available at prevailing rates)
To Book: Call 1-866-972-6779
Package includes:
- Two night room accommodations at Gaylord Opryland Resort
- Reserved seat ticket to the Grand Ole Opry – the show that made country music famous! Valid Tuesday, Friday or Saturday (plus special Wednesday performances July 18 & 25 and August 1 & 8 only)
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Reserved seat ticket to Opry Country Classics at the Ryman Auditorium; this show shines a spotlight on the classic country songs that have defined country music for generations of fans (Thursdays, March 29 – May 24 and October 4 – 25)
-plus- - Grand Ole Opry House Backstage Tour
- Ryman Auditorium Museum Self-Guided Tour
- Voucher toward a meal at the Opry Backstage Grill ($20 per adult, $10 per child age 4-11)
- General Jackson Showboat lunch or dinner cruise and show
Package price:
With General Jackson lunch cruise: $280*
With General Jackson dinner cruise: $305*
*Rate is per person, based on double occupancy for traditional accommodations, plus applicable tax, resort fee and parking. Extra nights and atrium upgrades may be available at prevailing rates. Rate subject to change without notice. Restrictions apply.
Suggested Add-ons:
(per person, plus tax)
- Shuttle transportation to Ryman Auditorium; inquire about rates when making package reservation
- Enjoy lunch, dinner, or a concert at the Wildhorse Saloon®
- A relaxing spa treatment at Relâche – The Spa at Gaylord Opryland
- Gaylord Springs™ Golf Links – Tee times available 30 days out
- General Jackson® – Showboat luncheon cruise and show
- Enjoy a concert at the historic Ryman Auditorium
Current Nashville Vacation Packages and Specials at Gaylord Opryland
- A Night at the Opry – Our most popular vacation package!
- Summer Fun with Shrek & Friends
- The DreamWorks Birthday Celebration
- Taste of Country – 2-night Package!
- Gaylord Hotels’ Unforgettable Anniversary
- Remember Romance – 1 or 2 nights
- Gaylord Hotels’ Birthday Getaway
- Rooms for Good™ – Reward yourself by helping others
- Thank You Thursdays – Get 40%* savings on Thursdays. TN residents only.
- Nashville Nights – 1 and 2-night packages available
- 2012 CMA Music Festival / Fan Fair Package
- Opry’s 87th Birthday – 2-night Package!
- New Year’s Eve Celebration 2012 – A Southern Gospel Festival
Social Flights Arrives as Frontier Cuts Service to Milwaukee
Frontier Airlines�recently announced it�s dropping nonstop service from Milwaukee to six cities, cutting the number of daily flights nearly in half. Effective in April, the airline will end direct flights to Grand Rapids, Dallas-Fort Worth, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Newark. Frontier�s daily departures will be reduced from 32 to 18.
While Social Flights is announcing new air service between Milwaukee, Branson, Nashville, and Austin – Frontier Airlines is announcing the reduction of services and staff from Milwaukee. �The following report from media FOX6now and Milwaukee Business Journal�highlight some of the local implications, impacts, broken promises and lost dreams.
According to a notice filed Monday with the�Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, the layoffs are expected to occur in April. The notice states that 230 of the employees are flight crew members who will be reassigned to bases outside of Milwaukee.
230 of the 446 layoffs will be reassigned – as will their families, their children will move out of school, houses will be liquidated in a poor RE market, and communities will lose trust anchors.�The new cuts are on top of�Frontier�s decision last fall to eliminate routes to eight other destinations.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett released a statement Monday after these layoffs were announced, saying: �The loss of 500 jobs is a setback for the region.� My hope is that other airlines will step in and fill the void in this critically important market.�
Frontier is leaving Milwaukee for reasons that would also hold for every other airline; fuel prices, labor prices, large jets, corporate ROI thresholds, etc. �Meanwhile, Social Flights operates under public charter regulations organizing local private operators and supports them with modern aircraft allowing communities to access important hubs as well as sister cities (such as Grand Rapids).
The Community Remembers the promises:
�When that whole deal was made, when Republic bought Midwest and Frontier, there were all these promises made to Milwaukee that they were not only going to keep the service here, but that they were going to bring in hundreds and hundreds of jobs,� Rovito said.
Instead, nearly 800 positions have been cut since November, and the most recent wave of cuts will move more than 200 jobs out of Milwaukee, while completely getting rid of another 200. �Just on its face, it�s really bad news for Milwaukee travelers,� Rovito said.
Who holds the cards?
Communities go through great efforts to attract air service from promising yields to providing public infrastructure to enduring noise and traffic – the airlines take this completely for granted.
Fewer flights means it will be more difficult for travelers to get to their destinations, and also likely more expensive. �It was a convenient flight for me in this particular instance,� Scott Sowa, who was on a Frontier flight heading to Grand Rapids, said. �I would hate to lose that convenience.�
Apparently, communities are not what Frontier needs to remain profitable. �They no longer need Milwaukee because they found business elsewhere. �They are an airline – they can go elsewhere…. they are not a community.
Where communities are the contingency plan
In a statement, the company says: �The reduction in service is another step in our continued effort to ensure that�Frontier�is a competitive and sustainably profitable airline.�
In other words, ‘Their survival is contingent upon your loss – not your gain.’�FOX6 tried to get in touch with someone from Frontier Airlines Monday, but our calls were unreturned.
Social Flights Solving for X
This morning we received a great comment from a reader named Peter. �He posts a valid question and I had to think about it for a few minutes before I could bring up a response. �Unfortunately, as with most questions, there is a simple answer and a complicated one.
Peter wrote:
I�ll be curious to see if eventually non-stop flights between these four cities will be established eliminating the need to connect through Branson. While this promises to be a great alternative to the airlines the current configuration is still a hub and spokes model. Here�s hoping we�ll see non-stop flights between these cities in the future.
Peter is referring to newly introduced air service between Nashville, Austin, Milwaukee, flying through Branson MO. �Admittedly, this is a pretty strange arrangement, especially since Branson only has 20,000 people whereas the other three metro areas have over 500,000 people each.
Who in their right mind would put a hub in the smaller city?
Branson is the Live Entertainment Capital of the Midwest. �The community of Branson came together to support these flights with a high level of civic involvement and passenger engagement with a high quality “service” model. �Branson is safe, clean, and they even own the airport. �The people of Branson are very proud of what they have built and want to share it with the world. �They dare to be different.
Social Flights partnership with Branson demonstrates that air service can empower a community, not cowering to the whips and whims from the corporate boardroom of a publicly traded airline.
- Solving for X or solving for Eggs?
A hub airport is like a big egg sorter for people and planes (where people are the eggs and the planes are the cartons).
A big part of our business model is to integrate with what is happening on the ground.�Imagine if Amazing places like Vail Colorado, or Chelan WA, or the Grand Canyon were easily accessible. �Imagine your next industry conference at a resort in the Ozarks instead of downtown Newark.
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Now, here’s the complicated answer
If nobody is going to Branson, the plane can just fly the�hypotenuse. �Try that with hub and spoke
Fly From Milwaukee To Branson MO For Under 100 Dollars
Beginning in June 2012, Branson Air in cooperation with CFM aviation and Social Flights, is offering a limited time 79 dollar special on air service between Milwaukee Wisconsin and Branson Missouri. This price will not last long since the route is filling fast. �The next threshold special is 99 dollars…and there is no wonder why tickets are selling fast.
This announcement comes on the heels of air service between Nashville and Branson as well as Austin and Branson. �All continuing flights connect all cities. �This is a big deal for people who travel between secondary markets.
If you are asking yourself what you would do when you get to your final destination, �just check out these posts:
�101 Things to do in Milwaukee
Or, think of it this way: �
Do a Google search on “Milwaukee Facebook” and you’ll received 183 Million returns. �Next, perform a search on terms: “Branson MO Facebook” and you’ll receive 3.7 Million returns. Finally, do a search on the terms “Branson MO Milwaukee WI Facebook” and you’ll received 1.1 Million returns.
Next, search for airfare from Milwaukee to Branson you’ll find the following result:
NOW, look at the flight from Branson to Milwaukee !!
Hmmm … why does it cost 200 dollars more and take 4 more hours (stationary) to fly from Branson to Milwaukee than from Milwaukee to Branson???
A recipe for opportunity
While this is far from a scientific research study, there is little doubt that many people in Branson know somebody in Milwaukee and vice versa. �There are many people in Milwaukee that can find a reason to hop a quick plane out to Branson with all of their friends. �Look at the disadvantage that the smaller community has – small communities are �SUBSIDIZING the larger community!! �The distance is the same so the price should be the same.
By extension – look at all of the communities on the map above that social flight can connect for 1/2 the price and half the transit time of the airlines
Most importantly, there are many things that were never economically possible between these two cities, �but now are. �That is what opportunity is made of.
People who follow Social Flights know that our business model is hugely disruptive to the airlines. �They know that Social Flights opens new frontiers of opportunity. �They know that Social Flights liberates stranded communities from Airline Chess Masters. �With air service between Branson and Austin for under 100 dollars – this is only the beginning.
So the choice is simple;
There are hundreds of things to do with millions of friends, colleagues, relatives, and business relationships for 200 dollars on a flight that lasts less than two hours. Or, spend close to 500 dollars on a 8 hour boondoggle losing two days of work and spending an two extra nights in a hotel with people you don’t know. �The choice is obvious.
Who knew that having fun could be such serious business?
101 Things To Do in Austin
Social Flights is now offering air service to Austin from Nashville and Milwaukee via Branson. This marks a new age in air transportation called “regionalization” – when smaller cities can conne3ct directly with other smaller cities without having to fly through a major hub airport.
In celebration of these new routes, we are pulling together the communities in these cities to find out what is happening in town. Use these blog posts to combine business with pleasure or family life the next time you need to go to Austin.
List Compiled by
1. Polar Bear Plunge at Barton Springs
3 Circle C Ranch Metropolitan Park
8 Tribute to the King at the Continental Club
9. Saturday Night Live Brunch at Alamo Drafthouse
10 Bouldin Creek Coffee House & Cafe
11. Franklin BBQ
12. Walnut Creek Metropolitian Park
14. Mariachi Band at El Sol y La Luna
15. The Soup Peddler
16. Grand Opening of Austinville 78704
17. Martin Luther King March & Celebration
20. Thursday Night Social Ride
21. Get Fit Austin! Open House
22. Chili Cook Off For Charity
23. Free Cooking Class at Williams Sonoma
26. Volunteer at a Homeless Shelter
28. Yappy Hour
29. Jester King Brewery Grand Opening Celebration
30. Matt’s El Rancho
31. El Greco
32. All City Subs
33. Armadillo Day at the West Pole
34. Braise Austin
35. The Matchmaker Band at Speakeasy
36. Mock Surgery Day at Seton Hospital
37. The Doggie Bowl at The Highball
38. Dominican Joe
40. Hoffbrau Steaks
41. 2011 Bobby Bones Singles Mingle
42. Jerry Jeff Walker at One World Theatre
43. Saturday Night Fever Dance Party at The Iron Cactus
45. Love Bites: The Power Ballad Sing-A-Long at Alamo Drafthouse
46. Vounteer/Donate/Get Involved With Austin’s Yellow Bike Project
47. Terra Burger
48. Paco’s Tacos
49. Paradise Bingo
51. Livestrong Post Marathon Party at the Hyatt
53. Vino Vino
54. Rooftop Architecture Film Series at Arthouse
55. Goldilocks at Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre
57. 2nd Street Soundcheck Party
58. North American Handmade Bike Show
59. Mariachi Ensemble at The St. Edwards Music Festival
60. East Side Kings
61. Texas The Big Picture at The Bob Bullock Museum
63. Uncorked Tasting Room & Wine Bar
64. Explore UT
66. 13th Annual Townes Van Zandt Birthday Salute at Cactus Cafe
67. Celebrate Fat Tuesday with Cypress Grill
68. Phara’s
70. SXSW
71. Rodeo Austin
72. Bacon Takedown
76. BD Riley’s Irish Pub St. Patrick’s Day Party
77. Japan Nite 2011
78. “365 Things Austin Live Music Extravaganza” Unofficial SXSW Party
79. Austin Dog Fair
81. Free “Country Current” Concert at City Hall
83. Flash Mob: A Tribute to Japan
84. Guy Forsyth at Central Market Cafe
85. 54th Annual Zilker Garden Festival
86. Austin Jazz Society 3rd Annual Tribute Concert
88 Cooking/Baking Classes at Silver Whisk Cooking School
90. Texas Hill Country Food & Wine Festival
92. Lonestar Rod & Kustom Round Up
93. Art City Austin
94. Bikini’s Sports Bar & Grill
95. Coreanos
96. Grand Opening of Torchy’s Tacos on South Lamar
97. Beatles Tribute at Threadgill’s
98. Austin International Poetry Festival
100. Steiner Ranch Farmer’s Market
101. Fly Social Flights to Branson, Milwaukee or Nashville!!
102 Things To Do In Nashville Tennessee
Social Flights is introducing air service between Nashville Tennessee, Austin Texas, Milwaukee Wisconsin and Branson Missouri beginning in May 2012. The opportunities for travelers to access business opportunities, recreational experiences, family connections, and entertainment value has never been better.
Say Goodbye to the Hassle
The social experience of travel has finally been liberated from the boardrooms of the airlines and no longer subject to the fragile and abusive hub and spoke system. No more long lines, luggage searches or irradiation machines. Social Flights takes you where you want to go.
Visit all the Capitals
Nashville is the music capital of the world – without rival. For publishing, recording, and production Nashville has few peers. Nashville is located in the population center of the United States and perfectly accessible to many locations of magnificent beauty, culture, and business opportunities.
Your way, not the highway
There are many great things to do in Nashville and dozens of websites that will help you find the getaway of your dreams. Social Flights now makes these opportunities to a wider market of people than ever before. Fly to Nashville today with Social Flights – lose the hassle. (list compiled by: 365Nashville.com)
7. The Melrose Spring Beer Tasting
9. Glass Night at Flying Saucer
10. Train for the Country Music Marathon or 1/2 Marathon
11. Mulligan’s Pub and Restaurant
12. Frist Center For the Visual Arts
13. Radnor Lake
14. Art By the Glass
16. NashVegas Casino Night at Cannery Ballroom
17. Nuvo Burrito
18. Bluebird Café
19. Warner Parks
21. “8 off 8th” at Mercy Lounge
22. Two for Tuesdays
23. Climb Nashville
24. Nashville Lawn & Garden Show
25. Nashville Haunted Pub Crawl
27. Las Paletas
29. The Billy Block Show from 12th and Porter
30. The Pie Wagon
32. Belmont Mansion
35. Jacks BBQ
36. Volunteer at 2nd Harvest Food Bank
38. Disc Golf at Seven Oaks Park
40. Zumi Sushi
41. Musica Sculpture
42. Bongo Java Roasting Company
43. The Station Inn
45. Crow’s Nest
49. Hatch Show Print
50. Nashville Predators
51. Whiskey Kitchen
52. Love Circle
53. Dozen – A Nashville Sweet Shop
54. Laser Quest
55. Dragon Park
57. Eco-Adventure Canopy Zip Tour
58. Loveless Café
59. Commodore Grille
61. Nashville Zoo
62. Brunch at the Copper Kettle
63. Sweet CeCe’s
64. All Fired Up
65. Downtown Nashville Home Tour
65. Rajin’ Cajun Crawfish Boil
66. Taco Mamacita
67. Nashville Sounds
71. Donut Den
72. Dove Awards
74. South Street
75. Country Music Hall of Fame
79. Exit/In
80. Allium
83. Southern Bred
84. Franklin Rodeo
87. Tuesdays at the French Quarters
88. Music City Roots
89. Burger Up
90. We ART Nashville
91. Nashville Shores
92. Fido
95. Brown Bag Lunch Concert Series
96. Tennessee Renaissance Festival
99. Grassmere Bicentennial Picnic Celebration
100. Memorial Day Blues Festival
101. Movies in the Park
Social Flights Beats Airlines; Case Study
Few people realize the extraordinary opportunity that exists for some communities to literally fly under the radar of the commercial airlines. Far too often, people are trained to believe that the airlines are the only game in town and if they quote a price, flight time, and wait time, then that must be the best deal out there. Nothing gives us more pleasure than to demonstrate quite the opposite.
Branson and Nashville
There are no nonstop flights between Nashville and Branson Missouri. Frontier charges $507.00 and the flight – with connections – takes 8 hours. Social Flights can fulfill this route for around 260 dollars for a non-stop flight that lasts only one hour – this is an astonishing 50% cheaper and 80% faster that flying commercial.
Branson and Milwaukee
There are no nonstop flights between these cities. Commercial carriers can provide access but it cost you $335.00 to travel 6 hours. Social Flights provides non-stop service for $290 dollars in only 2 hours.
Branson and Austin
There are no non-stop flights between Branson and Austin. However, Frontier will charge you $523 dollars to leave you in Denver and take an amazing 23 hours! Clearly, it would be faster to drive. Social Flights provides this flight for $290.00 non-stop and will have you there is 2 hours.
The Functionally Stranded
Thousands of communities across the United States are functionally stranded when they need to pay more in real cost than twice the airfare to reach their destination. This creates a substantial friction to a local economy since both outbound and inbound passengers suffer the friction loss.
Keeping it Real
OK, so who cares about places like Branson MO, Tri-Cities TN, Somerset KY, Arlington WA, and Danbury CT? The answer is that millions of people are functionally and economically stranded without global air transportation options – they care deeply.
It does not take long to realize that there are thousands upon thousands of routes and millions of people in our great country where Social Flights can thoroughly and without question outperform the major airlines in the simple task of connecting real people to the real places that they really want to go.
Social Flights Offers Air Service Between Branson and Milwaukee
Social Flights, in coordination with Branson Air Express and Corporate Flight Management, Inc. announce air service between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Branson, Missouri.
Near-daily public charter service begins on May 12, 2012. The flight time is approximately 2 hours and the current one-way price is $144.00. By comparison, a commercial flight on the same route would take 7 hours (+TSA) with a stop in Denver and a cost of $210.00 dollars each way.
This is important because Social Flights represents the regionalization of air service by providing the right sized aircraft to meet the needs of the smaller communities without hub airports. These are the type of routes that the commercial carriers would never fly direct. As such, traveling is far more time consuming and expensive than it otherwise needs to be. Now, Social Flight filling the void.
The Milwaukee metropolitan area has an estimated population of over 2 million people and ranks fifth in the United States in terms of the number of Fortune 500 company headquarters as a share of the population. Milwaukee has one of the highest per capita student populations in North America, ranking 6th among U.S. and Canadian cities in number of college students per 100 residents, according to a January 2000 study from McGill University
Branson is a city in Taney County in the U.S. state of Missouri. Branson has long been a popular destination for vacationers from Missouri and neighboring areas. The construction of music theaters by nationally-known performers along Highway 76 has increased Branson’s popularity as a tourist destination. Branson draws tourists from all over the World.
Nashville Based Social Flights Announces Service to Branson, Austin, and Milwaukee
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Social Flights has announced a partnership with Branson AirExpress for round-trip flights from Branson, MO to Nashville, TN, Austin, TX and Milwaukee, WI starting in May of this year.
Social Flights will assist Branson AirExpress in marketing the new scheduled routes to its current membership of 13,866 fliers and 98 Private-Aviation Operators encompassing over 600 jets. Jay Deragon, CEO of Social Flights said, “Branson AirExpress is a perfect example of the 21st century model of efficient and effective community-oriented air service initiated by, and on behalf of, the community”.
“Austin and Milwaukee were strong markets last year and the synergies that exist between Branson and Nashville are fantastic,” stated Branson Airport Executive Director, Jeff Bourk. “The partnership between these cities, Branson AirExpress, Corporate Flight Management and Social Flights allows us to offer low fares and continued convenience in getting to and from Branson, Missouri.”
Branson AirExpress will offer $99* introductory one-way fares from Branson to Austin, Milwaukee, and Nashville through March 14, 2012. For tickets, call toll free 1-888-FLY-BKG1 (1-888-359-2541), visit BransonAirExpress.com, or visit SocialFlights.com.
Social Flights Contact
Matt Slosky, Media Relations
Ph: 615-534-4590
matt.slosky@socialflights.com
Branson AirExpress is an indirect air carrier providing public charter air flights, and offering vacation packages in Branson to its customers. All flights are filed and approved by the Department of Transportation and operate under Part 380 CFR (Code of Federal Regulation). The company began providing scheduled Public Charter flights in 2009. The idea behind Branson AirExpress is there are several markets that will be good air markets to Branson, but are not yet ready for main-line commercial service. The Airport used Branson AirExpress to develop air-service markets for Airlines like AirTran prior to them taking over service in Chicago and Houston last year. The new partnership with CFM will now enable Branson AirExpress to serve as a conduit to public-charter operators like CFM to serve markets like Austin and Milwaukee using the Brand that has been developed over the last several years to help sell seats on their charter flights.
About Corporate Flight Management:
CFM is one of the largest Part 135 private aviation companies in the USA operating 30+ aircraft in Smyrna, TN, Atlanta, GA and Danbury CT. CFM is one of the highest rated private aviation companies with an ARGUS Platinum rating for outstanding quality standards in safety and operational excellence. CFM sells, services, trains, operates and provides a variety of air services and has done so successfully for the last 30 years. Employing close to 200 people and servicing over 250 flights per month makes CFM an outstanding aviation company with a long list of dedicated customers and loyal employees. www.flycfm.com
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* Advertised public charter fares are one-way; they include Federal Excise Tax of 7.5%, Federal Flight Segment Taxes of $3.80 per person per flight segment, and a convenience fee of $10. Sale fares must be booked 7 days or more prior to travel. These fares are capacity controlled and may not be available on all seats on all flights. The convenience fee of $10 per person, each way, will be charged when booked by calling 1-888-FLY-BKG1 or through BransonAirExpress.com. Tickets purchased at the airport are not subject to the $10 charge. Fares are subject to availability at the time of booking, and are subject to change. A $20.00 checked-baggage fee will apply for the first checked bag and $25.00 for a second checked bag per person. Each checked bag weighing over 50 pounds will be assessed a fee of $50 in addition to the checked bag fee. Dates of the advertised flights are subject to change in accordance with regulatory requirements. Cancellation is subject to administrative fee when permitted by regulatory requirements.