For those that have nothing better to do in life but sit arround and critisize Pan Am I feel sorry. for Pan Am's strategy of using the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC as their hub for over all operations to the CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL, and SOUTH AMERICA is brilliant!!!!! I feel for those that don't see it this way. Pan Am will bring Millions of dollars in revenue to the Dominican Republic, as well as jobs to the DOMINICAN People. For years AMERICAN AIRLINES has dominated the sky's over the Dominican Republic dictating prices that Dominicans would pay to North American destinations. Now for the first time in quite some time the Dominican people will have a choice in several up-start carriers which will compete against American offering Dominicans a choice in carrier service and in prices to points in the United States of America as well as to destinations in the Caribbean, Central, and South America. How anyone can argue that this is a bad for the Dominican Republic I have no Idea unless they are a grumpy unemployed ex-Pan Am employee.