No one is pretending Birmingham-Shuttlesworth is a glamorous hub, and that's precisely the point: you can walk the terminal end to end in five minutes and still make your connection through Atlanta with an hour to spare. A $95 February fare split into instalments barely counts as a financial decision. This is a city that rewards the traveller who skips Nashville's price tag for Civil Rights history, IKON Gallery, and barbecue that doesn't need a reservation. Just don't show up at Thanksgiving expecting those bargain fares to hold.
