Summer airfares double, triple, quadruple
This week, six (American, (AMR) United, (UAUA) Delta, (DAL) Northwest, (NWA) Continental, (CAL)US Airways (LCC)) raised prices again for flights on many domestic routes where there's no non-stop competition from low-fare carriers. The result, says travel price guru Tom Parsons of BestFares.com, is that the cheapest tickets available on many routes in July are 100% to 300% higher than a year ago.
Ref. https://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/200....htm?csp=Travel
I have been looking at tickets to LA but I think I am backing out. The fine print tells you even if you buy the ticket if the fuel costs goes up between now and departure(not sure about the return part) they can make you pay the extra fuel tax. So you dump couple grand for a ticket then they can randomly say oh profits are down we want another 200 per ticket and you are stuck having to pay it. Scary very scary.