Not sure how far you are from BWI, but Southwest has direct flight from there to OKC at a reasonable price, esp. if you get them on one of their sales. Maybe you could look into that and see if the price would be acceptable to dad.
Does all that really matter in this particular case OG?
Perhaps Dad said he would take turns, we haven't really been told how it's been explained to the kids. My kids' dad cut down the # of visits he comes to see them and I suspect it's b/c of the expense. The kids asked why and I said I really didn't know, maybe it's because it's so expensive to fly out and stay in a hotel. Granted they go on the visits together when they do go so not the same situation that way, but is it really hard to explain things when money is an issue? Mom can't afford to fly one kid at all so it's not like the kids are used to having it made in the shade and money being no object.
Its the choosing to have just one child visit that I think is impossible to explain. If they had monthly visits and it could be explained that each child was going to visit every other month, that's one thing. However this appears to be one of those classic long distance plans. Even if the child understands about money, the child is still going to feel second class because they weren't the one chosen to visit.
Possibly because the cost of a roundtrip ticket, hotel, food and car would cost just as much as the 1 plane ticket.
Yes actually it can matter quite a bit. which is why I asked.
Yep. Because if OP is really concerned about the children getting to dad there may be ways of guaranteeing that happens in the future.
Ya think?????????
