But Song's prices are at least competitive; a recent round trip from New York to Fort Lauderdale, booked on short notice, cost $175.
But about two years ago, Sears officials noticed costs were creeping up again.
Among the less-noticed cost-saving recommendations that the White House debt commission has made that have flown beneath the radar is a call to cut the budget of the Executive Office of the President and Congress by 15%.
When we had the conversation about what he could do to keep his 150 highly-skilled, in-demand workers from quitting (and especially quitting with no notice, costing the company incredible amounts of time and money), I gave him a quick tutorial about employee satisfaction, and how the great majority of it comes from a sense of accomplishment and autonomy.
The Ardsley school board president, Joanne Sold, said in a telephone interview: "The hope is that we'll get off paper-based notices that cost money to reproduce and mail.
On Thursday, she noticed it cost 5 cents more.
The deaths and the rubble are mostly in the north and east; Sri Lankans in the rest of the country do not notice the cost in missed opportunities.
Here's what else we noticed today: Cost of iPhone 5C in China Gigaom | The "C" in iPhone 5c doesn't stand for cheap: $733 in China.
I know only one person who has this lens, and he long ago made so much money from technology companies that he doesn't notice the cost.
But thanks to an early career spent moving around the country chasing temporary research contracts, I still have 15 years of mortgage to pay and I have noticed the cost of living increasing while my wages fall in real terms.
But the lenders also calculated, accurately, that they could charge a lot for the cover and that people would not really notice the cost either.
