Can you fly your plane during Airventure and return to your camping spot?

[Eric Gleason]

Dave, thanks for the suggestion. I checked flights and Appleton is--by far--the hardest for her to get to on a reasonable schedule. We'll see what makes the most sense when it comes time to pull the trigger on a plane ticket.

There's a big element of relationship politics going on here. She isn't at all excited about Oshkosh, and is coming mostly because we're also stopping in Chicago to see my extended family on the way home. I don't mind putting the extra time on the plane to go pick her up, and that comes out of my budget. She'll be buying her ticket out of her own budget, and if it costs her too much or she has to be up at the crack of dawn to get a flight, I'll be paying for it. Better to just be grateful that she agreed to spend a couple of nights in a tent with me and my kid and do whatever I can to make her enjoy it more.

[malexander]

Dave, thanks for the suggestion. I checked flights and Appleton is--by far--the hardest for her to get to on a reasonable schedule. We'll see what makes the most sense when it comes time to pull the trigger on a plane ticket.

There's a big element of relationship politics going on here. She isn't at all excited about Oshkosh, and is coming mostly because we're also stopping in Chicago to see my extended family on the way home. I don't mind putting the extra time on the plane to go pick her up, and that comes out of my budget. She'll be buying her ticket out of her own budget, and if it costs her too much or she has to be up at the crack of dawn to get a flight, I'll be paying for it. Better to just be grateful that she agreed to spend a couple of nights in a tent with me and my kid and do whatever I can to make her enjoy it more.

How about you take the kid, do what you want to do, and let her do what she wants to do. That's worked for me for 39 years. Although, my wife loves the friends we've made at OSH.

[Eric Gleason]

That's pretty much what's happening.

[Bill Berson]

Airline to Milwaukee is much cheaper. Too bad there is no frequent bus service to Oshkosh during Airventure week.
The Lamers morning only bus service is rather useless.
I tried to use the new evening Amtrak bus last year and was disappointed. The only sure option is an expensive rental car.

[dougbush]

Why isn't your SO flying in with you in the mass arrival or riding with your mom? And will your kid ride along to pick her up? Seems like way too much trouble for someone who doesn't want to be there. Is she all that enthusiastic about visiting your extended family in Chicago? I say tell her it's just not feasible to pick her up, but you'd love for her to fly in with you next year.

[Bill Greenwood]

Airline to Milwaukee is likely to be cheaper. But if there is a aviation convention in Milwaukee I haven't heard about it. You are 90 miles away from Osh, so almost a 4 hour round trip drive probably in a lot of traffic. But of course its your choice to do it that way. I stayed in Milwaukee one year at a friends place for free just across the street from Mil airport. I didn't like driving.
I have had family and friends fly into App, and it was so easy there on the airline.

[Bill Berson]

I don't think many can find a direct airline flight to Appleton. It usually takes an extra connection to Appleton (sometimes 4 hour wait) and many more hours to actually get to Airventure.

[Airmutt]

There are direct flights to ATW but they aren’t many. All depends what hub you fly out of. Delta does a couple a day from ATL.