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Use These Travel Blogger’s Tips to Protect Your Tickets Amid Uncertainty in the Aviation Industry 94%
4/24/2026, 12:56:25 AM
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Meanwhile, airlines are raising fares and cutting flights amid higher jet fuel prices.
And joining us now for insight on how you can make the most of your travel plans amid these changes in the industry is travel blogger and author Jen Ruiz.
Good to have you with us again.
Jen, let's look at what the latest changes look like on the ground or indeed in the air.
Give us some examples.
Sure.
So right now what we're seeing with the increased price of jet fuel is threefold.
First, we're seeing an increased price of flights.
Particularly now in the coming months, summer is already expensive.
So we're seeing flight prices that are hiking up exponentially.
We're also seeing canceled flights.
We're seeing canceled routes generally where the entire route has been canceled if it's not profitable for the airline.
We're also seeing canceled flights from pre-booked flights from months before.
Potentially the airline isn't able to honor the prices anymore.
If that happens and an airline cancels, you do get a full refund.
However, under US regulations, but that doesn't help you with purchasing a new flight right now with these increased prices.
And the last thing that we see is an increase in airline services.
So to make up these costs, airlines are rising the fees in terms of checked luggage and other things where they can try to recover.
So I did see somebody note that their check luggage fee had about doubled.
And so these are the ways that we're seeing this day actively impact consumers.
So if you're planning a summer trip, when should you buy?
Yesterday.
And so [clears throat] always when it comes to high season, you want to book as soon as possible.
Particularly now because this may be your best chance to lock in the prices as they currently are.
You want to make sure that you're protected.
So if possible, see if you're able to use points and miles, right?
Anything that you book with points and miles is refundable.
You they just put your points back.
So that may give you a little bit more flexibility if anything happens with the route, with the airline for whatever reason.
Also look to have travel credit cards that you're booking with because they might be able to offer insurance or protections if something does go wrong.
So this is important to keep in mind when booking, but definitely do so sooner rather than later.
Particularly for these summer flights because they're only going to get more expensive as they get filled up and as prices hike.
And as things are a little uncertain now and shifting as you've mentioned, if you want to travel in the fall or winter, what's the best strategy for booking it at this point?
So I love doing Google Flights anywhere feature where you can check their map and see what are the most affordable routes leaving from your nearby airports.
So first thing I would do is check to see do you have multiple nearby airports that you can get to?
Not necessarily your most close airport, but maybe one three or four hours away.
I know for myself in the state of Florida, I search for flights leaving out of Fort Lauderdale, out of Orlando, out of Miami.
Anywhere where I can compare prices.
Also look to see if certain US budget airlines might be operating out of a lesser known airport.
For instance, Breeze, right?
Which is an alternative to JetBlue.
They have airlines that fly out of lesser known second tier airports and might be offering some deals there.
So look to see, search different airports, search these features.
Google Flights has one, Skyscanner has one where you can actually look to see and search by price.
And that way you're picking your flight not necessarily based on this destination, right?
Italy, that's going to be so expensive to get to midsummer and always is and is it going to be especially so this summer, but rather maybe a place you didn't expect, but you can find a bargain too.
And you mentioned it earlier, some people who bought their flights months ago are actually facing hardship now when they're canceled and they need to rebook.
Is there any instance in which for now you would advise people to hold off from buying?
Potentially.
So funnily enough, actually European flights and anything that's operating to or from Europe has more consumer protections than US flights.
As I mentioned under US regulations, you would just get the money back that you paid for your flight, but that doesn't really help you with booking another flight at the increased prices.
However, if you're flying to and from Europe, they have regulations there in place that provide additional monetary compensation for any kind of delays that you have, any kind of issues with your flights.
So maybe that's something where if you are booking there, you might feel a little bit more secure.
Or if you have, you know, cancel for any reason insurance, those type of things where you feel you're protected, you would be okay to buy flights.
If you are going somewhere where you're not 100% sure if there's going to be any compensation, if you have non-refundable hotels or things have non-refundable hotels or things.
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