Working on our flights for Nov / Dec and while the trip down is stupid expensive I had two options I liked coming back in December. One was about $460 but had a night in Miami with a 5:30am departure, declined on that and took for $561 SXM to MIA then to DFW where we will stay the night, then a easy 10am next day to PDX all first class. Similar to what we went through last year where we booked the trip back before the trip down, eventually we got the trip down at a similar rate but had to spend an extra 3 nights which we enjoyed very much!
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