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briangogs said:
If anyone knows how to get from the northeast U.S. to puerto plata for less than about 575USD please let me know
Specify a city and dates since those are pretty influential factors in determining fares.
If you are talking summer $575 is pretty normal. Try air only charters and prepare for service and scheduling that meets their needs and not your needs. Including stopovers you didn't count on and changes in arrival and departure times that are used to feed the resort packages coming and going.
I swore off charters in 2000 after Air Transat changed the departure time once 3 weeks before, then 5 more times the day of departure and also added a stop in Punta Cana at 2 a.m. so my original arrival at SDQ of 1 p.m. Saturday wound up being 6 a.m. the following day.
AA has schedules and they stick to them.