WASHINGTON -- Airlines have had trouble raising their
prices to offset high fuel costs, but the government is still
noticing a trend toward higher fares.
Number crunchers at the Department of Transportation report that
airline ticket prices during the last three months of 2003 were up
an average 1.5 percent from the same period a year
earlier.
It was the second straight increase in the department's
quarterly Air Travel Price Index.
Officials say the United State's largest jump in fares was seen in Maui, Hawaii, where prices during the fourth quarter of last
year were up 23.2 percent from the year before.
Milwaukee
had the biggest drop in fares, down 6.2 percent.
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