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Originally Posted by GT0132
Going back to the mid 80's, it then cost around $600 for a return economy class airfare from Sydney to Auckland flying Qantas or Air NZ . Today, around 25-30 years later, you can still get a return trip for that price whereas most other consumable items have increased at least 5 fold in that time. Obviously with rising operating costs the airlines need to do anything they can to maintain their margins , but many of their costs they have no control over - i.e fuel prices, landing fees etc....so what gives?...yep service and maintenence.
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This is what I was going to say as well. The price of flying has hardly moved (at least in my experience) in the past 10 years.
12 years ago a cheap peak season flight to Europe was $1800-$2200 return and as of 3 months ago it is still the same price.