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Charter flights cancelled

Listin Diario reports the cancellation of about 27 charter flights to the DR. Passengers that would be travelling on packages from Apple Vacation, Funjet Vacation, Liberty Vacation, Go Go, GWV among others into Punta Cana and La Romana have primarily been affected. The East Coast had taken off as the most popular area for US travel.
Other news reports say that once travel is normalized, airlines may offer discounted travel packages to encourage leisure travel. (14 September 2001)