Hawaii Interisland Fares Corrected for Inflation

Understanding this chart...
Each year has two dots, a red and a blue dot. The red dots show the air fare during that year, and the blue dot shows that fare corrected for inflation to 2006 dollars. The blue dots and their associated blue lines indicate the relative affordability of air travel. Thus, in 1929 a ticket to Maui cost $20, but that $20 was the equivalent of spending $240 on the ticket during the year 2006.

Notes:
1) Source of historical fares through through 1974: Table 17.21 Air Fares and Scheduled Flight Times Between Honolulu and Other Airports, By Hawaiian Airlines, 1929 to 1977, Hawaii State Dept. of Planning and Economic Development. Data for 1981 from newspaper article. Data for 2005 and 2006, www.farecompare.com.

2) Source of inflation figures: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, http://minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/index.cfm

3) Data points exclude short-term fare wars

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