Millions of air travelers are soaring for Easter. Although domestic ticket costs have risen 40 percent since January, Hopper said, the increase in airfare has not softened demand.
Domestic airline ticket costs are expected to rise 10 percent more in June, according to Hopper.
Delta Air Lines has booked more tickets than ever in the last month and will fly more than 480,000 passengers a day until Sunday. United Airlines will carry more than 400,000 passengers a day until Monday.
But the shortage of staff left over from the peak of the pandemic is leaving pilots and flight attendants frustrated. Spirit Airlines staff protested in Las Vegas on Friday.
Southwest Airlines Pilots Association is warning fatigue has become their “number 1 safety threat,” while Alaska Airlines pilots have been protesting their workloads for weeks. The airline responded by cutting its hours until June.
“We’re going to have a very hard three or four months because I don’t see any short-term solution to trying to meet demand when you don’t have the staff to support it,” CBS News reported. said senior travel adviser Peter Greenberg. “The airlines were over-scheduled, they still are. And the problem with that is that everything goes crazy because if you put a weather problem or a maintenance problem in it, the system collapses.”
Meanwhile, there is some relief for road commuters, with the national average for gas prices dropping to $ 4.07, according to AAA. That’s $ 0.24 cheaper than last month, though still at historically high levels.
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