The Impact of the Rising Cost of Airfare on Our Vacations
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RE: The Impact of the Rising Cost of Airfare on Our Vac... - 11/7/2012 1:30:40 PM
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arkansasgurl
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I know exactly what you mean sandinmypants.......I used to live in AR and I sware the airfare was a lot less then, even with the extra connection. I always thought if I moved to DFW, it would be so much easier to fly to Mexico IE cheaper. But, that is simply not the case. One thing I have never understood is how it can be so much cheaper flying from the NE to Mexico than it is from DFW.
Last night I read a news article on my ipad that Spirit Airlines is now charging $100 for carry on. The article says it is to deter people from carry on because of the delays it creates loading and departing the aircraft. I am disgusted. Its bad enough that at 5'10" myself and my husband 6'5" there is NO leg room... NO arm room....Can barely breathe and then someone bangs their chair against your legs. Oh, sure....you can pay extra for better seats....then pay more for checking luggage and now pay for carry on? I could almost live with some of it, if I wasn't so miserably uncomfortable wedged in an even smaller spot than we used to get and being charged more for it.
On top of all that, being manhandled and nearly strip searched and forced thru all these hoops....and don't be late. Hurry up! Only to find out the airline is running an hour late. Last year, we were on time to connect in IAH and they closed the gate early knowingly forcing us to take a later flight. This was because they had people on stand by to fill up the plane, they knew our flight had landed and we were precisely on time....
I ADORE traveling and I have travelled so much, I pretty much know the drills. However, I have to agree with sandinmypants and would add to that I feel I am getting significantly less and being charged significantly more.....
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RE: The Impact of the Rising Cost of Airfare on Our Vac... - 11/7/2012 2:56:37 PM
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RLee
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While I agree with you, I think we need a little perspective.
Back in the early 1960's, when a gallon of gas cost 22 cents, a flight from New York to LA could be bought for $250 round-trip. The average new car was $2,500. Minimum wage in 1960 was $1.00 per hour; it went up to $1.15 in 1961! The average new house was $12,000. And that $250 flight, in 1960 dollars, works out to about $2300 now.
Yes, the seats were bigger and they served food and drinks for free but it was stupid expensive to fly and only the rich and famous did it.
The first flight my Mom took was in 1973 when we moved from Halifax to Calgary, she was 28 years old. It was my first flight too. When I was a kid, vacations were driving to my cousins in Victoria. The ferry from Vancouver to the island was a Big deal! In 1985 my Mom, who was divorced, took my brothers and I to Disneyland. She’d been saving for 8 years to take us. The girls at her work threw a party (with cake) for her and congratulated her on her Once in a Lifetime vacation!!!!
The idea of going to Mexico was something akin to flying to the moon!
So I do understand that it’s getting more and more expensive to travel and they are nickel and diming us to death, I think we should remember that not too long ago we would have had to been very rich to even consider a vacation spot like the Mayan.
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RE: The Impact of the Rising Cost of Airfare on Our Vac... - 11/7/2012 2:57:21 PM
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I know, looking for airfare for March, which I realize is peak season, but the prices are above $800 a person, from New Mexico! It will start to hurt Mexico tourism too, again.
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RE: The Impact of the Rising Cost of Airfare on Our Vac... - 11/7/2012 3:59:48 PM
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Tickets RT from Minneapolis 3rd wk of March today is $1544.78 per person. Same tickets 4 motnsh ago were $454.00 each. Hard to understand such an increase even with it being the busiest time of the year. Last March same tickets we got in summer of 2011 for uner $400 each. I am glad we got our Jan flights when we did as those same tickets today are over $150 more for each. I to would like to take 2 trips per year but at these rates pretty hard to. Hence why we extended our Jan trip to 2 wks. Get a little more bang for your buck that way. Can't wait until the day comes we can do a month at a time.
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RE: The Impact of the Rising Cost of Airfare on Our Vac... - 11/7/2012 6:00:47 PM
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Steve O
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I don't know but the airlines have to be making money. I just bought two round trip tickets to Las Vegas from Chicago on Southwest Airlines for $134 each. I can check up to 2 bags each and change my ticket for free. Las Vegas is a couple of hundred miles further than Cancun and costs 1/3 to 1/4 of what I have to pay to fly to Mexico. Figure that one out.
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RE: The Impact of the Rising Cost of Airfare on Our Vac... - 11/7/2012 9:00:42 PM
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Tamie
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Our airfare is costing more than our AI for 7 nights. Makes taking vacations much harder when airfare is increasing so quickly. Granted, we're in a small airline market which makes our flights more money than if we were to drive to a larger airport, but the parking and gas always even things out and we'd rather land and be 10 minutes from home instead of 3-4 hours.
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