I'm guessing based on your location you fly out of Memphis, same as we do - I've been on that MEM-CLT flight a number of times - only once was I really scared by the turbulence - I'm a white knuckle flier at baseline so it doesn't take much to scare me.

Still that first leg is not a long flight - just over an hour to CLT - right at 50 mins to ATL - and it is a long flight to SXM, so it is hard to pass up first class tix...

decisions, decisions.... trying to pull the trigger on tix in the next few weeks - last year I waited until after labor day, thinking prices would go down and they only went up