People always seem to forget that on a purchasing power level there are few times in history that air travel has been as cheap as it is now.
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Let’s look at airfares for a minute. Whenever people moan about the cost of flying, I think of that old American Airlines ticket that sits on my bookshelf. It’s a flea market find, and it dates from 1946. That year, somebody named James Connors paid $334 to fly one-way from Ireland to New York — roughly the same that you’d pay on Aer Lingus today. Using the Consumer Price Index conversion, that $334 is equivalent to well over $3,500 in 2007
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Also the price difference we see in Canada compared to the states is mostly due to differences in fees at the airport. These fee diferences are due to different levels of government subsidies to airports at the various locations.