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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.
航空公司今年在燃油上的支出增加了数十亿美元，而它们正将这笔成本转嫁给消费者。
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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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本片段的口语练习目标
通过观看这段关于机票价格的视频，你可以锻炼用英语讨论经济现象和日常消费的能力。视频中涉及大量与价格波动、行业竞争、消费行为相关的表达，非常适合提升“实用场景口语”的流利度。同时，你还能学习如何清晰阐述因果关系（如机票涨价的原因），这对雅思、托福口语或职场交流都很有帮助。配合“英语影子跟读”练习，还能强化听力理解与口语输出的同步性，轻松突破“听得懂但说不出”的瓶颈。
实用短语库
- pass along to customers：转嫁给消费者
- pricing power：定价权
- unit revenue：单位收益
- discretionary funds：可支配资金
- experience economy：体验经济
- buy up：升级购买（如机票舱位）
- off season：淡季
这些短语不仅出现在视频中，也是商务英语和日常对话的高频表达。建议结合“shadow speech”练习，模仿原音的语调与节奏，让口语更地道。
突破口语弱点
视频中包含不少长句和逻辑复杂的表达（如“即使燃油价格回落，但劳动力、维护等成本上涨更甚”），这对“意群划分”和“连读”是很好的考验。很多学习者在说长句时容易卡壳，通过“看YouTube学英语”并进行影子跟读，可以训练自然断句的能力。此外，视频中人物的口语较为口语化（如“it's Bon Jovi, I didn't care”），注意学习这种简洁的口语逻辑，避免过度使用复杂句式。
学习小技巧
想要用好这段视频提升口语？试试以下方法：
1. 先逐句听写，再进行“英语影子跟读”，对比自己与原音的差异；
2. 用学到的短语造句，比如“商家常把成本上涨pass along to customers”；
3. 模仿视频中受访者的语气，练习自然表达情绪（如抱怨机票贵、解释出行原因）。
坚持“shadowspeaks”练习，你会发现自己的口语流畅度和词汇量都有明显提升！
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。