Average domestic fare forecast to be 3.6 percent cheaper than a year ago. Yet airlines still are enjoying record profits, thanks to extra fees and low fuel costs.
If you plan to travel this fall, expect to pay the lowest airfares in years.
The average domestic airfare for the September-through-November period is forecast to be $248, or 3.6 percent cheaper than in fall 2014 and 8.1 percent cheaper than in the same three months of 2013, according to the Boston flight research site Hopper.com.
That’s sounds like great news until you dig deeper into the numbers.