Prices Rising For Just About Everything Travel-Related

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – With most COVID restrictions lifted, millions of people are looking to travel again.

Gina Kramer and her daughter Frankie recently flew into southern California to visit family they weren’t able to see during the pandemic.

“I haven’t seen my family that lived here in three years, four years,” Kramer said. “It’s gonna be a family reunion of sorts.”


But the Kramers trip is coming at a higher cost because oil prices are making jet fuel more expensive. That has ticket prices soaring.

Hopper reports the average cost for domestic airfares in March is around $311, up 31.8% from the beginning of the year. Gina saw those increases while shopping for her ticket online.

“If you missed a window two days later the prices were like $100 more,” she said. ...............................(more)

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2022/04/03/travel-prices-increasing/

[Initech]

1. Yeah I'm planning a trip to Colorado in September to see Phish and Nine Inch Nails.

The hotels were ridiculously overpriced and the show tickets were even worse.

[marmar]

2. Yep, we were planning to do San Francisco/Wine Country this summer.....

.... but the airfares are in the $650-$800 (I refuse to pay that for domestic travel) r/t range, so we opted for Cancun in May instead.

[Emile]

3. Predatory Capitalism creating a shortage and jacking up prices! Republicans will blame Biden.

[Blues Heron]

4. I think each passenger is essentially buying and burning a 55 gallon barrel of jet fuel

for a coast to coast flight. So yeah, 100 dollar barrels are going to be included in your ticket price.

[Dial H For Hero]

5. I'm very glad I'm a credit card points hacker. Using points to fly and for hotels

is the only way my upcoming trip to Thailand is remotely affordable. I could never fly business class if I actually had to pay for the ticket!

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

6. Yep, ticket prices are high

Just booked tickets to Las Vegas over the 4th July weekend for my wife and I. Her parents are taking the kids for a week to their place in Charlevoix. Would have cost me $3200. Luckily I have a ton of Skymiles to use so its going to cost $24 bucks lol.