Book Flights This Summer While Fuel Costs Stay Cheap (bloomberg.com)

An anonymous reader shares an article: It's the best summer for jet setting in more than a decade. As jet fuel costs have sustained near 12-year lows after a global crude market crash in late 2014, airlines are cutting ticket prices and travelers have noticed. Global passenger data show that air travel demand started the second quarter at growth rates unseen in six years, and U.S. carriers hauled more passengers than ever before last year. Worldwide, first quarter air travel costs dropped about 10 percent compared with the same period a year ago, according to the International Air Transport Association. About one-third of those costs can be linked to cheaper fuel, according to Savanthi Syth, senior vice president of airlines global research Raymond James & Associates.

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Please don't

[Anonymous Coward]

Please don't travel more. Burning the fuel for air travel releases massive amounts of greenhouse gases. We need less air travel, not more of it. If you care about the planet, you won't take advantage of the cheap airfare.

News for nerds because?

[davidwr]

I wish I could downmod this off the front page as doesn't sound like "news for nerds," but I will make two small concessions:

1) it's possibly of general interest, which includes nerds. Take to to a general-interest forum, not /. Next up on Slashdot, tomorrow's weather forecast....

2) nerds travel to industry conferences and other industry events. Okay, maybe, but it's very tenuous. Slow news day???