The COVID-19 era of cheap flights is swiftly coming to an end and travel firms are seeing signs that airfares will likely reach 2019 pre-pandemic levels as...
to keep up with their own pandemic realities. Airlines desperately need more pilots to fly planes and each needs thousands more employees to get operations back to pre-pandemic operation levels and avoid the passenger enraging meltdowns that plagued them last summer.
“Once travelers realize that everything is going to cost more, they are accepting the increases,” she said. Demand isn’t the only reason that airfares are rising. Airlines are seeing cost increases as labor and jet fuel get more expensive. A gallon of jet fuel is selling for more than $2.50 a gallon, the highest rate in more than six years,combine for about half the costs of a commercial airplane ticketAmerican Airlines planes are seen at the gates of Terminal C at DFW Airport on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022.
“We just need to get the staffing levels to the point where we can operate our aircraft, operate them reliably, produce the kind of operational performance that our customers need and want and deserve, and it’s just going to take staffing to do that,” Southwest’s new CEO Bob Jordan said during the company’s earnings call last week. “Which is why you saw us raise our starting wages.”
“Travel for February was soft and most of the travel we are seeing is for close-in trips,” said Misty Belles, spokeswoman for travel agent network Virtuoso. “Now we are seeing people actually planning again, planning for spring break and planning for summer.“
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