{"id":12553,"date":"2016-01-24T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T22:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12553"},"modified":"2016-01-24T22:24:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T22:24:02","slug":"fuel-price-goes-down-fares-stay-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12553","title":{"rendered":"Fuel price goes down; fares stay up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boom.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12122\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boom-300x169.png\" alt=\"boom\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boom-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boom-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boom.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This might be one of the more unsurprising back stories of the recent news regarding the falling price of fossil fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Air fares &#8212; which shot up right along with the price of those fuels back in 2010 and 2011 &#8212; are staying right where they&#8217;ve been, even while the price of fuel falls through the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-airline-profits-fares-20160123-story.html\">Profitability matters. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I get that air carriers want to preserve their profit margins. But can&#8217;t they do so while providing a little bit of relief for those who want to fly somewhere?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit like the gasoline dealers who fairly routinely jack the price of fuel up a dime, 12 or 15 cents at one pop when the price of oil ticks up &#8212; as it did near the end of last week; I&#8217;m waiting now for the gasoline price to reflect the increase.<\/p>\n<p>When the prices of oil comes down, the dealers seek to maintain their own profit margins for as long as they can by inching the price of gas downward a penny or maybe two at a time.<\/p>\n<p>I understand basic economics as much as the next guy. It just is a bit frustrating &#8212; as a potential consumer &#8212; to wait for air fares to decline at the same pace that they escalate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might be one of the more unsurprising back stories of the recent news regarding the falling price of fossil fuel. Air fares &#8212; which shot up right along with the price of those fuels back in 2010 and 2011 &#8212; are staying right where they&#8217;ve been, even while the price of fuel falls through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fuel price goes down; fares stay up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5895,3395],"class_list":["post-12553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","tag-air-fares","tag-oil-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12556,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12553\/revisions\/12556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}