Cheap, quick and easy leisure travel by Plane seems to be a thing of the past (hotel, airlines)

[Good_Teacher]

For the last 10 years, my wife and I have taken a number of long weekend trips to places all over America. We use one of those companies that offer long weekend packages that include Air, Car Rental and Hotel. Though the last few trips have been terrible. The flights have been delayed and once we got on the plane we sat on the Airport tarmac for over an hour without explaination. Car Rental taxes were sky high and gas $3.50 a gallon- which made our trip much more expensive. Future trips have been put on hold because it is just to expensive, to much hassle and just to hard work to make the trip pleasurable. Do you think the era of quick efficent leisure travel by many Americans is a thing of the past?

[JJingle]

I don't think inexpensive travel is a thing of the past. The industry will adjust to the new environment with innovative products and new efficiencies. It will just take time!

[tande1n5]

Even if prices go up due to input costs, it's still far from the economic equilibrium... in the US there are still waaaaaaay too many seats flooding the market... so unless we start seeing some more belly-up ops, price slashing is still the name of the game as there are "too many" airlines in the US (from an economic equilibrium standpoint). Good for the consumer, bad for the airlines.

[Huckleberry3911948]

leisure is a thing of the past, its bite claw and climb climb climb for now on.
the ones that will be affected the most will be those who know no hardship - kidults
we could not bear to see our children denied the things we did not have, of course not having them was what made us strong.