05/2007 - Airline tickets getting crazy - Is this affecting your plans?

[papi_sosua]

Actually this can be another level if you have $25-100k to open up brokerage accounts. Other than that, I agree...

Best thing for me has been the Amex Platinum ($450/a fee) but netting $700 in cash plus free Medallion status on Delta, and other valuable perks.

I just got three new credit cards with miles


Amex - 25,000 plus 15,000
Spirit - 15,000
Contential - 50,000


Travel can be cheaper

[Jimmydr]

any thing is possible but........for a new member to sign up and start posting the same day and making controverssial remarks plus knowing our rank structure etc is not likely a newbie to isoc

I sign up on many other sites and start posting right off the bat. We get guys from other sites.

[DCIronman]

$397 RT to STI on Copa Airlines!!! That's all in since Copa doesn't charge baggage fees. And it's not one of those stupid itineraries into STI that you get on Spirit. It leaves IAD at 6:30am and get's you into STI at 3:30pm that same day!

I wasn't going to do a trip to the DR until much later this year. But we don't get those prices out of the DC areas these days. So you know I had to jump on that.

I'll be in Santiago in about 2 1/2 weeks!!!! HELL YEAH!!!

[kitie carson]

$397 RT to STI on Copa Airlines!!! That's all in since Copa doesn't charge baggage fees. And it's not one of those stupid itineraries into STI that you get on Spirit. It leaves IAD at 6:30am and get's you into STI at 3:30pm that same day!

I wasn't going to do a trip to the DR until much later this year. But we don't get those prices out of the DC areas these days. So you know I had to jump on that.

I'll be in Santiago in about 2 1/2 weeks!!!! HELL YEAH!!!

I get into Sosua June 3 for 5 days...you around then? If you are lets meet for Beer:30

[DCIronman]

I get into Sosua June 3 for 5 days...you around then? If you are lets meet for Beer:30

Thanks. But I don't know if I'll even get to Sosua this trip. Just found out that an old classmate has been living and working in Santiago for a couple of years now (aint facebook great). Since I'm doing this one without my customary wingmen, I plan to spend quite a bit of time hanging out with her and meeting her girlfriends, some of whom are smoking judging by her FB pics.

It's a fairly short trip for me. So it makes more sense for me to spend it in Santiago since I'm flying in and out of STI. Sosua will probably have to wait until the next DR trip.

[joeysterr]

$397 RT to STI on Copa Airlines!!! That's all in since Copa doesn't charge baggage fees. And it's not one of those stupid itineraries into STI that you get on Spirit. It leaves IAD at 6:30am and get's you into STI at 3:30pm that same day!

I wasn't going to do a trip to the DR until much later this year. But we don't get those prices out of the DC areas these days. So you know I had to jump on that.

I'll be in Santiago in about 2 1/2 weeks!!!! HELL YEAH!!!

Well DC enjoy your first Copa flight to STI because this will be the last. It saddened me to say that their East Coast flying time is changing for the worst on June 15th. Departure around 10am for both Washington and NYC flights which gets you there at 2:30p. PTY -> STI usually leaves at 12p. We're done!!!! I would surely miss those no TSA long ass line early morning flight with my 92% avg of free business class upgrade, double the usual miles of NYC-DR Continental miles + extra 25% both miles and elite qualifying miles, all the drop dead gorgeous eye candy in Panama City airport:-( I wonder who are the customer assholes who wrote letters to change the flight time. Or maybe they did it to make money, I've heard that's what the airlines are into those days! That early flight used to get the whole US Eastcoast in South America by 1pm!!! I know it I've taken Copa for MDE in February and I landed at 12:44pm!! Now it has become a pure mess! It's hard for me to say goodbye but I have to: goodbye $316 all in DR r/t flights

[joeysterr]

I just got three new credit cards with miles


Amex - 25,000 plus 15,000
Spirit - 15,000
Contential - 50,000


Travel can be cheaper

Don't get me started....

[whynotme]

some air canada flights to asia are dropping a little so maybe an extra trip will be in the works

[DMV]

$397 RT to STI on Copa Airlines!!! That's all in since Copa doesn't charge baggage fees. And it's not one of those stupid itineraries into STI that you get on Spirit. It leaves IAD at 6:30am and get's you into STI at 3:30pm that same day!

I wasn't going to do a trip to the DR until much later this year. But we don't get those prices out of the DC areas these days. So you know I had to jump on that.

I'll be in Santiago in about 2 1/2 weeks!!!! HELL YEAH!!!

Thanks DC
Good price compared to what I've been finding. I hate flying out of Dulles but might have to change that if the cost to get out there is worth the savings.

Finish that rail line Metro!!!

[LJDMV]

I was checking on flight prices today from the east coast (Not NYC).. Airfares are still high flying into POP Airport.. I can't believe the prices have not gone down yet for flights through October 2011. I dont think copa airlines has any more flights from My area into Santiago.. Almost 600 including tax...

[Irie]

I was checking flights today as well (southeast) and my normal flight from to POP through Miami really not changed much in the last few months. However, it is up about $200 from a year ago. Not enough to stop me from going though

[whynotme]

flights prices to cuba aug 1st are thru the roofso i booked using my ff miles
but flight prices to thailand are down
all of august is available for under 1,000 before tax so after i get done in asia and cuba maybe

[rushdog34]

I was checking flights today as well (southeast) and my normal flight from to POP through Miami really not changed much in the last few months. However, it is up about $200 from a year ago. Not enough to stop me from going though

this last ticket was more than i ever spent on a flight... but i did have to wait till last minute and it was either take the trip now or wait till next year sssooooo i'll be there next week lol

[Irie]

this last ticket was more than i ever spent on a flight... but i did have to wait till last minute and it was either take the trip now or wait till next year sssooooo i'll be there next week lol

it's either time or money, isn't it. I'm a big fan of getting more time now .

Have great time. I've got about four weeks to go myself.

[hugrad95a]

Attention flights for July are back around the 477 range... NYC to SDQ

$477 Economy 4 sites


JetBlue Airways
JFK B6 JFK 11:59p SDQ 3:40a
11:59p SDQ B6 SDQ 6:00a JFK 9:43a
6:00a
SDQ 3:40a JFK 9:43a
3h 41m 0 3h 43m 0


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dea58832b3d1db56b72602fe000bfc6c
$477 Economy 4 sites


JetBlue Airways
JFK B6 JFK 11:59p SDQ 3:40a
11:59p SDQ B6 SDQ 8:10p JFK 11:54p
8:10p
SDQ 3:40a JFK 11:54p
3h 41m 0 3h 44m 0


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$477 Economy 4 sites


JetBlue Airways
JFK B6 JFK 11:59p SDQ 3:40a
11:59p SDQ B6 SDQ 1:25a JFK 5:09a
1:25a
SDQ 3:40a JFK 5:09a
3h 41m 0 3h 44m 0


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$477 Economy 4 sites


JetBlue Airways
JFK B6 JFK 5:50a SDQ 9:38a
5:50a SDQ B6 SDQ 6:00a JFK 9:43a
6:00a
SDQ 9:38a JFK 9:43a
3h 48m 0 3h 43m 0

[soxfan]

Airfares are just nuts right now anywhere out of the country. Merging the airlines means less compation and less routes. 6yrs. ago when my third world adv. started, Thailand was 750.00 from Chicago. I flew 3 times that yr. Plus are dollar has taking a shit too on top of it. I heard Sosua is dead ?? Never been , but ready to try it out.

[LJDMV]

Flights to Sosua (POP) are also high now... $200 more than I paid Jan 2010...

Airfares are just nuts right now anywhere out of the country. Merging the airlines means less compation and less routes. 6yrs. ago when my third world adv. started, Thailand was 750.00 from Chicago. I flew 3 times that yr. Plus are dollar has taking a shit too on top of it. I heard Sosua is dead ?? Never been , but ready to try it out.

[DASBOOTY]

Airfares are just nuts right now anywhere out of the country. Merging the airlines means less compation and less routes. 6yrs. ago when my third world adv. started, Thailand was 750.00 from Chicago. I flew 3 times that yr. Plus are dollar has taking a shit too on top of it. I heard Sosua is dead ?? Never been , but ready to try it out.

Try out Sosua, you will have a ball.

If you want to know what is happening on the ground in Sosua read the reports of guys who there now or were just there. Read TNT72's 9th, or Kitie Carson back in DR or Lindin's 1st DR trip.

Ram was there recently and just gave a report on the 'the ongoing novela that is Sosua (the arrest report)' thread.

[questner]

I have just re-booked my August ticket on Expedia, this time $112 lower. Costs me C$568 on AA via MIA (YYZ-MIA-POP).

Prices are down maybe due to a stupid oil reserves release.

It's worth to check for price changes on other destinations.

[TNT72]

I have just re-booked my August ticket on Expedia, this time $112 lower. Costs me C$568 on AA via MIA (YYZ-MIA-POP).

Prices are down maybe due to a stupid oil reserves release.

It's worth to check for price changes on other destinations.

my price has been the same for 3 days. About to pull the trigger. Seems like every time I gamble it, I lose either the price, or the flight I want. But thanks for the heads up!