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Re: Flight Prices
[Re: SammyM]
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01/21/2020 01:07 PM
01/21/2020 01:07 PM
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And, was this for weekend flights? Those are always higher priced. An option to consider for the future is driving to Atlanta and check flights to SXM from ATL. Sometimes the cost to drive to another airport and use Park/Sleep & Fly will be less than your closest airport. A few years back we had flight reservations from our hometown through PHL to SXM with American. Three weeks before departure they called and flat out cancelled the first flight to PHL. AA offered totally unreasonable alternatives which we refused and eventually cancelled at a full refund. We then searched around and booked Delta from Buffalo thru Atlanta to SXM with total flight savings of about $300. We had to drive 100 miles to BUF airport and stay overnight at an airport hotel with an airport shuttle, but when I added everything up (gas, hotel, food), we were still $100 better off than the original costs with AA. We had looked at various days of the week, but these flights, which we're happy with, are on a Saturday going and a Friday coming home. ATL is a ten-hour drive for us; that's not happening. We already drive two hours to get to Raleigh, which is the nearest airport with reliable flights. We used to drive 4 1/2 hours to CLT for a non-stop, but now we just drive to Raleigh, spend the nights both before and after the flight. It's not easy to get there from here, lol.
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