{"id":50879,"date":"2003-08-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/airfare-wars\/"},"modified":"2003-08-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T00:00:00","slug":"airfare-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/08\/12\/airfare-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Airfare wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines has decided to defend its turf and is advertising US$199 round trip fares to New York from Santo Domingo or Santiago airports. The decision to lower the fares from standard rates of US$500+ just weeks ago happened after Air Santo<br \/>\nDomingo and Aeromar posted very attractive fares on the routes. As a result, thousands of Dominican expatriates that live in New York and environs have been booking vacations in Dominican resorts. It is not unusual to see otherwise<br \/>\n?Dominican-looking? tourists reading New York Times bestsellers while sitting on a beach or around a hotel pool. For hoteliers, it is most welcome business, as the expatriates come for week long stays and bring their families, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines has decided to defend its turf and is advertising US$199 round trip fares to New York from Santo Domingo or Santiago airports. The decision to lower the fares from standard rates of US$500+ just weeks ago happened after Air Santo Domingo and Aeromar posted very attractive fares on the routes. As a result, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/08\/12\/airfare-wars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[235,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}