Why are airline ticket prices going up?

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Why are airline ticket prices going up?

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Basic answer: there are a lot of knock-on effects from the pandemic year, including pilot shortages, the aircraft supply chain, and just different gambles on the world economic situation that are causing less flights to be available, and higher ticket prices to get on them.

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Re: Why are airline ticket prices going up?

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More of the same here. (This is from CNN, but seems to have some truth to it.) :dunno:
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