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If you can handle ridiculous layovers in MIA (10+ hrs, and usually overnight)
$294 r/t confirmed on aa.com. available multiple days this month
I wouldn't have posted this due to the layover alone (which kinda makes these flights worthless) but this is the lowest fare I've ever seen from NY to POP. Talk about undercutting competition, the next lowest (non-aa) fare from NY to POP in July is $510
Yeah, I can do Meddy- SDQ for around 500 and change if I want to layover in Panama from one day to the next, coming and going. I won't be doing that anytime soon (maybe when I have lots of free time)Quote:
Originally Posted by deezl
I don't know why you would?Quote:
Originally Posted by MrHappy
And it gets even more ridiculous.
If you're willing to add another stop (usually in Charlotte, it seems) the price drops to $260. round trip. to Puerto Plata.
I don't think anyone's gonna wanna take a 2-stop 20hr flight there (or even the onestop in 10hrs) but posting this purely for the 'holy fuck, $260 r/t fares to DR!" and it isn't even a sale, this is the price through Sept-Oct-Nov.
Obviously, if American Airlines can afford to post this price on a two-stop flight, United & JetBlue can afford to get their nonstops under $400. At the $480+ they've been charging for the last year or so it's like they don't even want us to fly there.
Honestly, if it went back down to $350ish I would do weekend trips, I'd be taking a trip at least every other month, but I'm not paying $500+ to fly to POP just on principle.
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Originally Posted by deezl
you guys with your options.....:cussing::cussing::cussing:
I just paid over $500 to go to Boca in November.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irie
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Originally Posted by JDR
Well now i don't feel so bad. :p
Anything less than $800 is a bargain for me. I could get it for less, but travel times sky rocket to over 24 hours. That's just not happening.
It is what it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irie
You can't take the money with you.
AMEN! :ilike:Quote:
Originally Posted by JDR
The only reason I take pricing into consideration at times is to keep lessening the years between now and retirement.
No, but you can damned sure maximize what you get out of it. You should know that. You're an accountant, aren't you?Quote:
Originally Posted by JDR
There are 3 or 4 airlines that travel to DR so if all 4 are $500 or more, you pay that price or stay home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rubicon
Nobody forced you to live in the fuckin' boonies! :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Irie
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Originally Posted by deezl
no state tax, low cost of living, banjo music, toothless friends, inbred neighbors,........etc, etc, etc.........
......I'm NEEEEEVER moving back! :mrgreen:
Yeah I agree....those 3am leave times...or 26 hour travel times to save 150 bucks isn't worth it....Quote:
Originally Posted by Irie
I am getting like Beas now...love that direct flight from JFK-SDQ...3 hours and your there....sweet....
I was looking at 392 for crazy time itinary or 525 for good times in August....its worth the 130 bucks.....
But JFK to SDQ is normal. There are 10 - 20 a day from 3 or 4 airlines.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter
and they just keep dropping.
$244
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what the fuck?
I would not do 2 stops, with a so much wasted time , even if it were for FREE..
but thats just me.. not knocking it for those who need to save that extra $50 each way or whatever it is.. from like a regular ticket price..
but lets do the math, 20 hours of travel, 17 wasted each way ?
I can fly TONIGHT if I wanted to , for $518 .. on Delta or Jet Blue. and be poolside tomorrow AM.
that has more value to me.
AA can keep these cheapo seats.
but its good to know
it's a fucking tease is what it is. If I'm gonna spend 20+ hours getting there then I'll go to Thailand or the Philippines. That price is ridiculous, though. The base fare is $80!
funny thing is, it's $244 to fly from EWR-MIA-POP
but if you catch that same flight from MIA on to POP it's $625.
I didn't mean getting something cheaper was maximizing my money. There are many ways to "maximize" your money. I have commented in the past that I have usually paid on the higher end for my flights because I prefer to travel on certain days and at certain times, and arrival time on the outbound and inbound is important to me. For me, that is maximizing my money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seņor JDR of Medellin
Thanks for the acknowledgment... I refuse to take multiple stop trips when I can go direct, spend a couple hundred bucks more and get there 10-20 hours less in total time... The way I look at it is if I dont have the money, I stay home till I do... And, my time is worth more then the extra time it takes me to get to these places... If JB still flies direct from JFK- CTG when I am ready, im in no matter what the cost... (of coure I have ome kind of limit) but, last I checked random dates, it was under 500 all in for that round trip... JFK-CTG, CTG-JFKQuote:
Originally Posted by Hunter