By trip-hop on Skatehive
I avoid travel during the Christmas and New Year's periods because it is a no-brainer that this sort of rise in rates is going to occur and has for all of my life and probably long before I was alive as well. The entire world operates on supply vs. demand so we can't really point our fingers at the "evil airlines" and accuse them of doing anything wrong. If one of us owned a business that absolutely boomed in a guaranteed fashion during a particular time of year we too would up the prices. Life is not a charity. src There are other holidays that can increase the price of flights as well but no one of them hits the market quite like Christmas does. I did a little bit of personal research to see what the increase ended up looking like by looking at various travel avenues to and from various locations and the increase seemed to be pretty standard regardless of where you were going. I included multiple domestic (inside the USA) flights as well as several destinations internationally with o