you will now get the message you Dummies.....you have to many airports ....and your taxes are to high...lower them so the Airlines can make a buck ...or we will all be in for it... You dummies!....the hotels are getting massacred as well.....they have to pay for airports in ...Samana,La Romana ,Punta Cana and Puerto Plata......and we are still paying for Barahona..".Build it and They Will Come " airport of schemes

This is scary, I was told by the airline that I will have to call a few days before my flight because things are changing constantly thanks to the gas prices.

Gouletcolonial, its the gas, the airports are for the drug dropping... :) :(

Actually very few tourists come through Santo Domingo or Santiago...most of those flights are for homecomings from New York and those are the flights that are being cut back.

that is the problem mike ...AA is the lifeblood airline of the people not the tourists ....those other airports were built for tourists read Charters...NYCDR ...very funny line about the drugs

Mike the Dominican hotels will have to subsidize those other airports by cutting prices

Drugs; did someone say Drugs. Damn where?

Basta says NO to drugs......When they ask him whether he has had enough he says NO

First thing I would like to say BASTA is not dominican, I dont care if its a joke or not, but he doesnt represent me or my family. The whole dominican ethinic group is not a population of drug abusers. We do have what americans call "A few bad apples" but that doesnt mean everyone is an abuser. Sorry joke or not it wasnt funny. And Im embarrassed that you put your from Dominican Republic. Second, its true we are taxing the airlines to much. I guess we figure that as long as we have a lot of dominicans aboard they will always come back to the motherland and there will always be profit with them. The plan may backfire who knows...

The Gov, needs to adjust the taxes on the airlines to add incentive for more flights into the country but I will not hold my breath.

http://www.dr1.com/#10
DR could help air travelers

The move to reduce taxes affecting airlines and travel in the DR is gathering support. Representatives of several economic sectors see it as a way of compensating for the climbing fuel prices that are forcing several major airlines to reduce their flights to the DR.
American, Delta and US Airways have already announced flight cuts. The Italian company Neos announced it was canceling its Punta Cana, La Romana and Samana charter flights. The cancellations affect tourism, farm and free zone exports, and expatriate and local travelers. The reduced supply is already leading to higher fare prices.
Yesterday, Airport Department director Andres Vanderhorst said that it is important to convince President Leonel Fernandez to change the laws and reduce taxes affecting aviation. Hoy newspaper quotes an International Air Transport Association (IATA) report stating that the DR has the Caribbean's highest aviation fuel prices.

This is AA's way to vent the frustration since Jet blue started to fly in more airports in the Dominican Republic. For far too long American Air line had control on the in and out bound flights to the DR, well gess what, now here comes the competition.,Jet Blue, Delta and Continental are finaly here and the better option and better pric3e so long the bad service of AA.