The pain at the pump is turning into pain at the gate for air travelers as prices for domestic flights have spiked a whopping 36 percent this year amid an increase in demand after nearly two years of COVID lockdowns and soaring fuel prices, recent data shows. Round-trip flights within the US currently cost around $300 on average, making for a 36 percent spike from the beginning of this year, while being roughly equal to 2019 figures, travel company Hopper told Bloomberg on Friday. And airline CEOs have recently reported that demand for flying is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels.
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