I wouldn't say the airline sucks but your trying to fly out of a smaller airport so of course flights are going to be hard. Have a friend trying to fly from Agusta Ga to SXM and the cost is 850, but me from NYC was able to get flights under 450. Just booked a one way fare on AA from Phoenix to JFK for 155 or 20k points. seems pretty good to me. Have you looked into getting. To Boston or out of Canada? My inlaws would fly from Orlando to Hartford and drive to their family in Bangor because of the price of tickets.