Case in point: during a two-day period this week, after the bullets stopped flying, the price of gasoline fell from $8.70 a gallon to its normal price of $3.62.
In part, this is a consequence of the falling cost of flying: ticket prices have dropped by 60%, in real terms, over the past 40 years.
Between the struggle to fold a sport jacket so it doesn't wrinkle, the 45-minute wait on a security line if I'm flying, the price of gas if I'm driving and the worry either way that I left the coffee maker on, I thought I was pretty well versed in the inconveniences and stresses of domestic travel.
It takes the form of a browser plugin that supercharges searches on the likes of Google, Bing and Amazon (and a host of other online retailers) to offer on-the-fly price comparisons from a database of 10,000 merchants, along with any known available discount coupons.
As air travel costs plunge with the proliferation of low-fare airlines all over the world, even hotels will be under greater pressure to cut rates, he said, adding, "The price of flying and the price of accommodation is out of whack".
Mr. Redmer said he was most interested lately in the Parrot AR.Drone, a flying robot priced at $300.
In May, the industry group Travel Technology Association released a study led by a former Justice Department official that said the practice cost passengers more than $6 billion a year and discouraged 40 million travelers from flying because prices seemed too high.
For those who fly privately, price is often no object.
Travelers will be able to choose filters of where they want to fly, and price range and will be able to access these results on a map interface.
New digital machines from PB make such on-the-fly pricing changes easy to track.
It's going to be a place for 1000 students to learn everything there is to learn - literally, everything, including special courses on Transcendental Meditation and yoga flying for the price of a mere $2500.
