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Distance from nearest Southwest airport to Asheville

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I am considering going with my DH to the Creative Retirement weekend in Asheville. It is held Memorial Day weekend. We have free trips with Southwest , but I can only take Friday off with my one personal business day. So, what would be the closest airport and how long a drive would it be to get to Asheville. I looked at prices, LAX to Asheville and it was over $800 round trip for the two of us. Is there an airlines that flies directly to Asheville? Maybe it would be worth using American Express Starwood points.
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Dumb question, and I should look it up, but where is Asheville?

Okay, I did look it up. If you're talking about Asheville, NC it doesn't look there is a "close" SW airport. The closest airports, other than their small regional airport are Atlanta (3 hours) or Charlotte (2 hours). SW doesn't fly into either of those cities.
 
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Oh, that is discouraging. I'll look to see who flies into Charlotte and how many points it would be.
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Nasville, TN would probably be the closest at around 5-6 hours for Southwest. Just checked mapquest, 5 hrs. 13 min and 300 miles.
 
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Ugh, that's too far to want to drive after flying all day. I think we are going to wait until I retire to do the Creative Weekend thing. I can take one personal day off, but that would be Friday and the workshop starts Friday. If I take a non-paid day off and go Thursday, it would be a lot of money and a very rushed trip. If I went until I retire in June of 2011, we could actually see the countryside and visit a part of the country we have never been too.
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Knoxville isn't much more than an hour normally, but the interstate between the two is closed until at least March. Southwest doesn't fly to Knoxville.

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RDU is less than four hours from Asheville.
 
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Southwest flies in to Greenville-Spartansburg (SC). It's about 80 miles to Asheville, NC
 
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Asheville has an estimated population of about 75,000. It is Western North Carolina's largest city. In the state, it is the 9th largest city. It also belongs to the 4-country Asheville metro statistical area.
 
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Greenville-Spartanburg (SC) is actually probably closest. Then Charlotte, then Piedmont-Triad (Greensboro, NC-about 2.5 hours)
We're heading to beautiful Asheville for New Year's ..if we can get there through the snow that is! Asheville had 10 inches over Christmas and we had 6 (2 hours drive away!) Unusual for us, but so pretty!
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