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The party may be over. This week, the airlines raised airfares by as much as $10. The way this usually works is one carrier raises fares and if its rivals match it, the higher rates stick. In this case, American Airlines was the first to increase fares by $5 each way or $10 round-trip for flights...

The International Air Transport Association expects airline profit to plunge 40% this year as fewer passengers travel during the recession and as fuel prices rise. But that doesn't mean you'll necessarily be able to score a good deal: Airfares are likely to keep climbing.

Light crude oil prices have been climbing in the last few days, closing the week at $88.94 per barrel on the NYMEX. If prices climb high enough, it could damage the still-weak economy by raising the costs of gasoline, jet fuel and petroleum-based chemicals. How high is too high?

For most college students, mid-November means cramming for finals and cranking out semester-end essays. But for those money-smart students who leave the library long enough to hit the mall, Black Friday sales afford the opportunity to buy stuff you'd get anyway, only much, much cheaper. Even...

Flying home this holiday season could cost you a lot more than last year as increased demand pushes up airfares. A return ticket from Philadelphia to Orlando over Thanksgiving is 59% more expensive than in 2009, USA Today reported. A round trip from New York to San Francisco over Christmas will...

As the U.S. economic recovery edges forward, these three airline stocks stand out as buys for fundamental reasons. Several analysts, including those at Value Line, see better days coming for this group.

Southwest just launched a three-day fare sale that has cheap flights as low as $59 one way. Today also, JetBlue launched a one day sale with one-way prices as low as $29. Buy your Southwest tickets by Oct. 7, 2010 (though the best fares will sell out sooner) and travel through Dec. 14, 2010. These...

You know that scene in every teenage sitcom where the protagonist heads to the local train or bus station with a fistful of dollars and asks the tickets seller, "How far will this get me?" Inevitably it's never enough, but magically close enough. Well, if you want to know how far your limited...

Finding the best travel deal is certainly easier today than it was a few years ago, but finding the absolute best deal still means visits to numerous web sites. In other words, typing in airports, choosing travel dates, selecting the number of travelers and then sorting out the results again and...

Watch out Orbitz and Expedia, Google wants a piece of the travel turf. The ambitious search engine company is "in talks" to fork over $1 billion for ITA Software, which makes the same software that Bing and Kayak use to track airfares online, according to USA Today. Obviously, the talk has the...