Vacationers flying from Washington D.C.’s Dulles Worldwide Airport are spending extra on airline tickets than these at another U.S. airport, in accordance with a current evaluation by FinanceBuzz.
The typical price of a flight from Dulles final yr jumped to $494.78, as airfare prices nationwide elevated 14.1% between 2021 and 2022. Flights from San Francisco Worldwide ($456.86) and Charlotte Douglas Worldwide ($444.42) had been the following most expensive tickets, whereas Portland Worldwide ($425.35) and Detroit Metro ($425.35) rounded out the highest 5 on the listing of costliest U.S. airports to fly from.
“Final yr, the one two airports the place airfare prices exceeded $400 on common had been Dulles Worldwide Airport (IAD) and San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO),” FinanceBuzz wrote in a report accompanying their findings. “Whereas 11 extra airports crossed the $400 mark this yr, IAD and SFO are nonetheless the 2 costliest airports within the nation.”
As compared, Harry Reid Worldwide Airport in Las Vegas emerged because the least costly airport to fly from, with a mean ticket value of $264.24. Different less-expensive airports on the listing: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood ($271.78), Orlando ($273.35), Oakland ($288.23) and Chicago Halfway ($303.05). Within the earlier yr’s evaluation, Fort Lauderdale had held the crown of “least costly airport.”
Different findings from the report confirmed that each San Diego Worldwide and Daniel Ok. Inouye Worldwide in Honolulu had seen the smallest price will increase over that year-long interval. Newark Liberty Worldwide and Dallas Fort Value Worldwide noticed the most important spikes in ticket prices.
Fares throughout all airports elevated by $50.67, on common, throughout 2021-22 from the previous yr.
The complete report regarded on the nation’s 45 busiest airports, as measured by the U.S. Division of Transportation. Common fares had been based mostly on home itinerary fares, that are sometimes round-trip tickets, and included the complete ticket price, together with taxes and costs.
