Prices probably are going to be steep either way.  You’re not likely to find cheap airfares like you would to to Florida, California, or Vegas, since normally there aren’t a whole lot of people clamoring to fly in and out of either Omaha or the Quad Cities.  Found that out myself many years ago when I was quoted a price so high that I told the counter attendant “You misunderstood me.  I only want to sit in the seat, not take it with me when I get off the airplane”.

-“BB”-