Delta Air Lines Inc., American Airlines Group Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co. are expected to report

The figures, which are adjusted for inflation, mostly count round-trip fares, but about one-fourth are one-way trips if that’s what the passenger bought. Taxes are included, but fees for checking bags, boarding early or getting an economy-cabin discount italian cruises seat with more legroom are not.
The airlines are able to do all this because they are successfully limiting the supply of seats. After four major mergers since 2008, the four biggest airlines now control more than 80 percent of the U.S. air-travel market.
Most planes are likely to be full this summer during peak vacation season. That means when flights are canceled because of thunderstorms at big, hub airports in Dallas, Chicago and elsewhere, it could be days before stranded passengers find a seat on another flight.
Airfares are up 10.2 percent from 2009, when the U.S. was digging out from the worst of the Great Recession. But they are down 16.3 percent since 2000 — the peak year for airfares — while overall consumer prices have risen 33.9 percent, discount italian cruises the government said.
"It’s a great time to fly," said Jean Medina, spokeswoman for Airlines for America, an industry trade group. "Air travel is one of the best consumer bargains in America, given its superior speed and price versus other modes of travel."
Delta Air Lines Inc., American Airlines Group Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co. are expected to report this week that they earned a combined profit of more than $700 million in the first three months of 2014. That’s usually the slowest time of year for travel, and it was considered remarkable when those airlines earned $200 million in the first quarter discount italian cruises of last year.
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