Article: Decoding phone bills Is this the end of cheap air travel?(Business)

You can fly between New York and Los Angeles for as little as $370 round-trip, not including taxes and government fees, on JetBlue. Twenty bucks more on American.

And out of that, how much will the airline spend on fuel? Almost $300 per passenger for JetBlue at recent prices, and nearly $500 for American.

While most consumers know all too well how much it costs to gas up their cars, few know how much they are paying for gas when they fly on an airline. It turns out to be shockingly high at today's prices - well more than half the cost of the average ticket on many routes.

That doesn't leave a lot of money to pay for all the other costs of running an airline - ...

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