@Dustin Sanders Aside from gas airfares are up too.

Or for me because of status I can book a points trip tie up the seat and cancel last second with no penalty and get my points put back in both for the room and the airfare..

The low airfares and maybe cabin fever have contributed to lots of visitors from the mainland. 

Have been to them on both coasts, so have had to pay for air fare and lodging on some.

I have a hard time paying big money for an event plus the airfare and hotel.

That's what occurred with airfares and may make the rates be more transparent.  

Theresa makes a good point above, it sounds like it will be worth a trip to bang out all the little things personally like removing decals, changing light bulbs and air filters, install doorbell, door stop, outlet cover, towel bar, clean gutter, power wash, screw the gutter downspout back on (5 min.) etc.... save yourself some money even with the airfare calculated in.

Then in March 2003 I received foreclosure papers.I have had to fly out to Florida from Arizona for a 12 hour derogitory, then again for a hearing in a Judges quarters, at a cost of over $3k each trip for motels, airfare, meals, rental car etc.

Also, remember that foreign students have much higher and different hoops to go through from domestic - just to get a student visa, they have to show they have been accepted to the university, and full documentation to the US government that their source of funds is at a minimum enough to pay for roundtrip airfare, the out of state fees for a year, plus lodging and food/health insurance and then some.

Then, consider airfare, fuel costs, general inflation higher, gets more expensive for average folks to travel.