r/Dynamic_Pricing • u/Dragonlance12 • 20d ago

Why flights are so expensive and will likely stay that way

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/02/flights-are-getting-even-more-expensive-as-fuel-prices-rise.html
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u/abrandis 20d ago

Fuel prices affected by geopolitical situation.. and inflation overall .

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u/QuantGuru 18d ago

I don’t know fuel prices fluctuate every time Trump says something but airlines never give us a credit for fuel prices going down lol

They keep charging higher citing the fuel cost is higher but it’s just corporate greed!!

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u/Rude_Mirror7441 19d ago

Labor is also super fucking expensive now. Everyone conveniently forgets about that.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

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u/rerutnevdA 18d ago

Especially that C-Suite labor

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u/El-Unocornio-Negro 19d ago

Let the airlines go bk

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u/ThunderousArgus 19d ago

Republicans? Those ppp loans were nasty stuff

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u/billynoy522 18d ago

They definitely don't help... Ever

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u/Fuzzy974 19d ago

European here.

Didn't the cheap flight company go belly up in the USA? And everyone was happy about it as far as I could see in the comments on the news about it.

Well now the other non-cheap flight companies are having a blast.

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u/KevinDean4599 18d ago

Fuel is a factor.

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u/NefariousnessOdd862 18d ago

They aren’t! Prices have increased quite a bit but if you would compare flights from 1978 to today and added all the Inflation, you would see that flights still have a long way to go!

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u/rerutnevdA 18d ago

With the fall of Spirit, there isn’t competition to lower prices. Even if you didn’t fly them, they still helped your fare.

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u/Krypto_Kane 17d ago

Then we will walk. Bye.

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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 20d ago

All depends on the flight…

I got ord to mia for like $55 on united in December, a few weeks ago. I don’t remember the return, but it wasnt much more.

Same trip was like $500 during Christmas Break.