How to battle Soaring price of the ticket

 Over the weekend, one of my colleagues has paid $3.70 for a gallon of regular gas in Los Angeles.

"It could have been worse," she noted. "A station in West Covina, California sent $4.60".

"Despicable," she added. I guess I should be grateful that she did not drop a bomb f of Melissa Leo Oscar speech on me.

Speaking of a scenario "could be worse", imagine that your vehicle is an aircraft. Say it is the massive Airbus A380, which can accommodate more than 800 passengers and a gas tank which holds 80,000 litres.

Devour smaller aircraft refuelled too. To the Southwest, for example, figures that its fleet of 737 s consumed approximately 1.4 billion litres in 2010.

So now that the price of oil has cracked and keeps flirting with the barrier pester inducer of $100 per barrel, which means for us, travellers?

If you have purchased an airline ticket recently, you know already - just, we saw the fifth ticket collecting hike of the year. If you keep the score, see this: in all 2010, there are just four tickets hikes; in 2009, only three; in 2008, there are 15, and it has 17 increases in tickets in 2007.

Notice a pattern here? The pace of recent hikes in domestic air transport reflects the pace of 2007 and early 2008, when the price of oil jumped above $90 per barrel. There is a difference today, although: airlines also have fresh and generalized bag "peak travel day" supplements that add to the passengers of total tickets.

Jet taxi to Airport International in Los Angeles in this photo of file on 21 December 2009, in Los Angeles, CA. Experts predict some of the higher years for summer gas prices. Close

For travel ideas and more new see blog of Rick at farecompare.com

When it comes to the increase in the cost of air transport, Facebook the most recent comments on my Web site full of words such as "scandalous" and "absurd" and course perennially popular "OMG!"

With all of this to consider, the question is whether we should return to bad-old-days of the so-called "travel"? No.. And I would also suggest travellers become oil price day-traders.

However, the shopping sloppy habits will cost you, so instead, be a smart consumer.

Here are some hard figures on average cheaper price of the roundtrip airfare (including the fees and charges) between major US cities (from historical data of FareCompare.com): August, 2007, $262; July, 2008, $319; February 2011, $318.

If you think that it is wrong on flights to the United States, take a look at the transatlantic voyage. Some long-haul flights are also expensive that they have been in a decade. For example, we have supplements fuel right Europe now average roundtrip $360, not to mention the tax on these flights that another $ 120 on average. Bottom line: you will pay $480 for a trip to Europe before adding in the real plane ticket!

What will happen? Airlines will keep testing you, to see how much you are willing to pay, and this means more rides tickets are underway. If the full aircraft stay, excursions will continue until in enough to tell us, "you know, sailing to the sounds of this garden year as vacation perfect." Who will fall rush prices.

And what does mean to you? Be smart.

Here are some things to do and the rules for making purchases of tickets:

Be not attempted to buy too early. In 2008, where the price of the ticket seemed to climb on a daily basis, people bought tickets for Thanksgiving during the summer lock prices, then he looked with horror, as oil crashed and last minute holiday buyers got incredible deals. If your purchases at the start, but not too soon: I expect ticket price-basis points for travel June to mid-March.