What happened to the price of flights? In November 2004 I travelled to Kuala Lumpur -> Sydney -> Cairns -> Sydney -> Hobart and then returned to the UK via Sydney and Kuala Lumpur for £799 return with Malaysia Airways. (4 destinations)

I’ve spent today looking for return flights to New Zealand via Hong Kong or Dubai (2 destinations), and the cheapest flight I can find is £1199 return. So how come the price of a ticket to a long haul destination has increased by nearly £400?

Many airlines are in financial trouble that will be made even worse by higher cost of jet fuel. There is no alternative to kerosene. Only kerosene as jetfuel derived from oil will work in a jet engine.

It is of low volatility for safe handling at airport terminal refueling ramps, but will burn with ferocious intensity when sprayed into the compressed air environment of a jet combustion chamber and ignited to create the high volume of high temperature and pressure gases that “jet” out the exhaust to create thrust to propel the aircraft.

Simply Countries are now panicing on the supply of oil and this has increased the price of flights considerably. The Iraq war hasn’t helped, but we won’t get involved in a political debate about that. All I know is that the price of oil is spoiling my travel plans for next year! Grrr!

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