When you purchase a ticket to fly out of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport you may pause at the price. But 13-year figures show when a consumer plans ahead and goes after a deal, they are flying cheaper than they would have in 2000.
The average round-trip fare from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport was $347 during the fourth quarter of last year, down 25 percent from $464 during the first quarter of 2000, according to the St. Louis Business Journal.
This is based on inflation-adjusted U.S. Department of Transportation figures of domestic itinerary flights.
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But in more recent years, ticket prices at Lambert are on an incline. From the fourth quarter of 2011 to the fourth quarter of 2012 the price increased 0.4 percent.
To read more about airport travel, click here to read the St. Louis Business Journal's full report.
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