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Prepare for sticker shock if you are traveling this summer

By DAVID KOENIG higher prices on increasing
DALLAS (AP) — Airlines and cost for supplies as well as
tourist destinations are ex- workers in a tight labor mar-
pecting monster crowds ket.
this summer as travel restric- Rental cars were hard to
tions ease and pandemic find and very expensive last
fatigue overcomes linger- summer, but that seems to
ing fear of contracting CO- have eased as the rental
VID-19 during travel. companies rebuild their
Many forecasters believe fleets. The nationwide av-
the number of travelers erage price is currently
will match or even exceed around $70 a day, accord-
levels in the good-old, pre- ing to Hopper.
pandemic days. However, Jonathan Weinberg,
airlines have thousands founder of a rental car
fewer employees than they shopping site called AutoS-
did in 2019, and that has at lash, said prices and avail-
times contributed to wide- ability of vehicles will be
spread flight cancellations. very uneven. It won't be
People who are only now as bad as last summer, but
booking travel for the sum- prices for vehicles will still
mer are experiencing the be "way above average,
sticker shock. Travelers queue up at the south security checkpoint in the main terminal of Denver International if you can even find one,"
Domestic airline fares for Airport, Thursday, May 26, 2022, in Denver. in Hawaii, Alaska and near
summer are averaging Associated Press destinations such as nation-
more than $400 a round al parks.
trip, 24% higher than this Texas, was standing in couple days before com- fares on jet fuel roughly Even if you drive your own
time in 2019, before the line this week at a security ing here. We kind of pan- doubling in price over car, it'll still be pricey. The
pandemic, and a whop- checkpoint in Dallas-Fort icked to find a place to get 2019. It's more than that, national average for regu-
ping 45% higher than a Worth International Airport, tested," said Jonny Dawe, however. The number of lar gasoline hit $4.60 a gal-
year ago, according to ready to board a flight to a software engineer from flights has not returned to lon on Thursday — more
travel-data firm Hopper. Nice, France, with plans to Bath, England, who was in pre-pandemic levels even than $6 in California. Those
"The time to have got- attend a Formula One race Dallas for a conference — though demand for travel prices have some people
ten cheap summer flights in Monaco. his first major trip since the is surging. considering staying home.
was probably three or four "I decided it's time to work pandemic started. "You "We have more travel- "You don't really get used
months ago," says Scott on my bucket list," Nelson have to check all the test- ers looking to book fewer to $6 gas," said Juliet Ripley
Keyes, who runs the Scott's said. "I hadn't even con- ing requirements for the seats, and each of those of San Diego as she paid
Cheap Flights site. sidered Monaco until this countries you are visiting, seats is going to be more $46.38 to put 7.1 gallons in
Internationally, fares are year." and you have to worry expensive for airlines to fly her Honda Civic. The single
also up from 2019, but only Although many countries about contracting the vi- this summer because of jet mom of two has no sum-
10%. Prices to Europe are have eased rules for trav- rus." fuel," says Hopper econo- mer vacation plans other
about 5% cheaper than el, there are still restrictions Online spending on U.S. mist Hayley Berg. than an occasional trip to
before the pandemic — in place that add to the flights eased in April after a When travelers reach their a nearby beach.
$868 for the average round hassle factor. Notably, the torrid March, but it's still up destination, they will be For those determined to
trip, according to Hop- United States still requires 23% from spring 2019 mostly greeted with hotel rates travel, however, it is an
per. Keyes said Europe is a negative COVID-19 test because of higher prices, that are up about one-third open question whether air-
the best travel bargain out within a day of flying to the according to Adobe Ana- from last year. Hotels are lines, airports, hotels and
there. country. lytics. filling up faster, too. Ho- other travel businesses will
Steve Nelson of Mansfield, "We only realized that a Airlines blame the steeper tel companies blame the be able to handle them.q