Yes, and so should have ticket prices, but they haven't. As a matter of fact, they're cheaper. Face it, airline travel is too common place now-a-days to pay pilots $250,000 a year to work 10 days a month. The profit margins are too small. Ticket prices are cheaper, yet the cost of oil has more than doubled in the last 10 years. In 1999, a barrel of oil was down to about $15. I say, you want to fly, you pay the price. What choice do you have? Drive? Take a train? How about a ship? Do you know how much a ticket to take a ship to Europe costs? It's rediculous, but yet, you can fly from New York to London in 6 1/2 hours for $400. The convenience factor for air travel is taken for granted these days and everyone expects a cheap ride, hence all the budget airlines that have started up in the past 5-10 years. You know the ones. New York to Orlando for $49. This has ruined the industry.