{"id":497078,"date":"2022-06-08T09:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T04:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=497078"},"modified":"2022-06-08T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:13:52","slug":"this-is-why-your-airline-tickets-are-so-expensive-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/this-is-why-your-airline-tickets-are-so-expensive-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why your airline tickets are so expensive right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than two years, the main topic of conversation pretty much everywhere has been about the impact of Covid-19. Now that the worst of the pandemic seems to be over and people are traveling more freely again, another hot topic is on the tips of everyone\u2019s tongues: expensive plane tickets.<\/p>\n<p>People are looking for flights \u2014 sometimes their first in years \u2014 in a rush of what\u2019s been termed \u201crevenge travel.\u201d Internet searches show sky-high airfares for many routes, yet travelers with wanderlust are opting to stomach the higher costs after being grounded for so long.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe demand is off the charts,\u201d Delta Air Lines Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian said at an industry conference last week,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than two years, the main topic of conversation pretty much everywhere has been about the impact of Covid-19. Now that the worst of the pandemic seems to be over and people are traveling more freely again, another hot topic is on the tips of everyone\u2019s tongues: expensive plane tickets. People are looking for flights \u2014 sometimes their first in years \u2014 in a rush of what\u2019s been termed \u201crevenge travel.\u201d Internet searches show sky-high airfares for many routes, yet travelers with wanderlust are opting to stomach the higher costs after being grounded for so long. \u201cThe demand is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}