The End of Pandemic Flight Bargains? Air Travel Costs Surging With More to Come

The End of Pandemic Flight Bargains? Air Travel Costs Surging With More to Come
A JetBlue Airways Airbus A321 takes off from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), in Los Angeles, on Feb. 19, 2022. Daniel Slim/AFP/Getty Images/TNS
Tribune News Service
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By Eliyahu Kamisher From The Mercury News

Patrick De Haan has a bird’s-eye view of skyrocketing prices around the country. He’s the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, a company that crowdsources gas price data. But more recently, he is feeling the pain of emptying his wallet for one of the latest trends of surging costs—air travel.