home brewer Loc: Fort Wayne, Indiana

Just for information and please be nice
We decided to try to go to Greece this year after our 2021 trip came completely undone with canceled flights, fires, floods and earthquakes
Our september 2021 flight from Fort Wayne to Crete and October 2021 flight from Athens to Fort Wayne was $983.77 and is now $1783 or up 81%. My paycheck has not kept up
The AIRbnb costs have not changed much

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Fuel?

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Profits

GEngel-usmc Loc: Spencerport NY - I miss Lakeland, FL

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With Boeing’s issues and unknown outcomes with FAA, and now AirBus pulling planes out of service due to ‘Cant get any Pratt & Whitney Engines’ for service, I predict less planes, more passengers, demand crazy, less seats, prices going up even more. Like you said, big time even more.

home brewer Loc: Fort Wayne, Indiana

GEngel-usmc describes much of the issues. Plus there may be some lingering effect due to fewer pilots and flight attendants do to aging out and forced separation due people not wanting the covid vaccine. Over the last month as we tried to put the vacation together the prices have gone up each week. There are few flights from the US to EUrope

We finally got the Global entry pass so getting back in to the states through the airports should be quicker.

fantom Loc: Colorado

That is obviously one reason but there are quite a few variables involved.

Twenty five years ago I used to fly a lot and it would not be unusual for the guy sitting in the seat next to me to have a ticket that cost three times the cost of mine----going to the same destination from the same starting point on the same flight. Airline ticket prices can change hourly and the time of day or specific day you purchase all play a role.

For example, it might cost $800 to fly from Philly to Denver, but a ticket to Grand Junction, Colorado from Philadelphia, with a stop in Denver, might be only $600. So, the solution is to have carry on luggage and buy a ticket to GJ and get off the plane in Denver. You just saved two hundred bucks by not going to Gj---where you never planned to go in the first place. There were tons of strategies to use if you spent the time to discover and use them.

Another example, was a round trip to Asia and back and visiting several countries there would cost X amount of dollars. Let's say the route would be Seattle to Hong Kong to Singapore to India and you would just fly from these same cities in reverse order to return home.

But if you purchase a "Round the World" ticket and fly from west to east and your first stop is India then Singapore, HK etc., and continue back to the US via your original return route the price could be about half as much---to go to the exact same countries just in reverse order. That's a savings of a helluva lot of thousands of dollars.

I have flown well over a million miles on just one airline and probably the same amount of miles on all the other airlines I've flown and I am absolutely no fan of airlines in the US. Some foreign airlines are outstanding, like Singapore or Malaysia but the US boys screw you every chance they get. So be prepared and expect it. You eventually learn how to cope and use the rules against them.

I don't know how things are now and they have probably closed many of the loopholes. I'm retired and haven't bought a plane ticket in over twenty years and am still flying for nothing ---using the frequent flier miles I've accumulated.