Some folks will do anything to avoid a layover in St. Louis.
The layover wasn't in St. Louis, it was Vegas.
And we have a fine city and Southwest's terminal at our airport is one of the nicest airport terminals I've been in. It's new and clean and it doesn't take an hour to move between gates like at O'Hare, Heathrow or JFK. If I had my choice of layover airports, I would choose STL without heasitation.