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If you're looking for travel bargains this summer, you might be out of luck.
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Airlines are spending billions of dollars more on fuel this year and they're passing it along to customers.
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This is how much I paid round trip to go from Newark to Barcelona last year in late October.
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I looked up the same dates for this year and it is over $1,100.
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We're going to Chicago.
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Our economy was $800.
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For two of us.
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We fly United a lot but it's expensive.
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All of them are.
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The four biggest U.S airlines control more than 82% of the seats flown by U.S carriers.
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That's up almost 2.5 percentage points since 2022.
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And they've never had this much pricing power.
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Look at how much unit revenue, meaning how much airlines are getting for their seats, has gone up in the second quarter compared with the same time last year.
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Fuel prices have come down from recent highs, but executives say that they don't expect fares to come down too,
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mainly because they're seeing that many customers are more than willing to keep paying these higher fares.
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And what are you doing here in New York?
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Bon Jovi concert.
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If I had taken an earlier flight, like an earlier day, I would have maybe saved $100.
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It's Bon Jovi, I didn't care.
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We've seen no resistance to higher fares in this revenue environment.
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Demand is incredibly strong.
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Our consumer is financially very healthy.
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Tremendous amount of wealth accumulation.
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When you ask our consumers what is their main purpose and use of discretionary funds,
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they'll say we want to participate in the experience economy with air travel being the number one.
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The industry lost what was once its biggest discount competitor in May, Spirit Airlines.
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With the collapse of Spirit Airlines, tens of millions of affordable airline seats evaporated overnight from the U.S market.
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The airline had been profitable for years, but there were a lot of challenges.
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There were changing consumer tastes that went more upmarket.
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Costs were going up for labor, for aircraft, for maintenance.
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And that ended up biting the airline.
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And ultimately, the airline could not survive in the new environment.
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Oil's higher now, but I want to be clear, it's lower than it was about a week and a half ago in that July peak.
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We've had a 40% move from the lows to the highs and where we are today.
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Truly stunning.
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Prices have been volatile because of blockages of a key shipping channel for fuel out of the Middle East.
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The on-again, off-again ceasefires with Iran have also made prices extremely volatile.
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The prices that airlines thought
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that they would be paying for jet fuel at the beginning of July were very different by the middle of a month.
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Before the war started, it was probably like 270, but I usually also fly southwest, so it's a little cheaper.
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This time I flew United and so yeah, I played 340.
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We'll talk about oil prices.
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The reality is that airport fees and maintenance expenses and labor, all those have gone up much more even than the price of oil.
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And in fact, even with prices today, airfares are still down about 13% in real terms compared to where they they were pre-COVID.
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But just because all of the airlines are charging you more, it doesn't mean that they're all doing well.
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Delta and United account for almost all of the industry's profits.
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We posted a $1.4 billion profit, 9% margins, and came in above the top end of the guidance range.
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And to put that in context, we estimate over 60% of the industry's profits this quarter will be delta,
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despite only having 20% of the market share.
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And that's reflected in its stock performance.
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Here's a look at the four biggest U.S airlines over the past five years.
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But as the cost of business keeps going up and airfare follows, airline executives say that key to their success is going to be customers' willingness to keep paying more to fly,
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and also for those customers to spend more on those lucrative airline credit cards.
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We're giving our customers the reason to buy up, giving them the reason.
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And that's all rooted in a better customer experience, a network that gets them to where they want to go,
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leading in loyalty and really making sure that they have the ability to buy up.
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Even though deals are harder to come by this year, I do have some tips.
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If you can, travel in the off-season when schools are back in session.
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Also look for midweek departures, say a Tuesday or a Wednesday.
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And there are also tools now that will help you optimize your credit card points and your airline miles.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 60 zinnen en 791 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:22. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 181 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
- airline /ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — luchtvaartmaatschappij. A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.
- fare /ˈfɛə/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — veergeld, veerloon. Money paid for a transport ticket.
- compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (werkwoord) — vergelijken. To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
- delta /ˈdɛltə/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — delta. The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
- volatile /ˈvɑ.lə.təl/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — vluchtig, licht ontvlambaar. Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
- percentage /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — percentage. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
- participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/ (werkwoord) — meedoen, deelnemen. To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
- reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/ (werkwoord) — weerkaatsen. To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
- discount /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — korting. A reduction in price.
- bite /baɪt/ (werkwoord) — bijten. To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- carrier /ˈkæɹi.ɚ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — drager. A person or object that carries someone or something else.
- estimate /ˈɛs.tɪ.mət/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — schatting. A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
- margin /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒɪn/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — kantlijn, marge. The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- expense /ɪkˈspɛns/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — uitgave. A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
- affordable /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — betaalbaar. Able to be afforded; inexpensive or reasonably priced.
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
- look for (werkwoord) — zoeken. To seek.
- end up (werkwoord) — belanden, terechtkomen. To bring to a conclusion.
- fly by (werkwoord) — voorbijvliegen. To pass or go past quickly, often without much interaction
- look up /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ (werkwoord) — opkijken. To have better prospects.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 14 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals they're, we're, we've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: accumulation /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, discretionary /dɪsˈkɹɛʃəˌnɛɹi/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, affordable /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/, competitor /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/, accumulation /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als airline, fare, compare.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.