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Diaz, who has grown up in Miami but is in college at Andrews University in Michigan, searched Expedia.com Tuesday afternoons for a plane ride for her mom, grown-up female cousin, 71-year-old grandma, 11-year-old female nurse to New York. Delta Air Lines Wednesday flights from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York with a stopover.

It was $1,318. This 22-year-old ergotherapist was one of many disappointed travellers who tried to make a reservation for a South Florida trip on Tuesday when the message of Irma's boost into a Category 5 hurricane ruffled anxiety throughout the area. Looking for airfares for my sis, granny and my little girl and they are more than 1 km away from Miami - New York!

Pricing in Florida after a declaration of a state of emergency has been made is unlawful. Air carriers are, however, governed by the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation and are not governed by Florida's Florida's Principle of Pricing Governance. Travellers air their battles on Twitter by locating cheap airfare - or even a plane at all.

"Absolutely intolerable, a $358 plane ride from Miami to New York went up to $358. So why should you want anything respectable from these carriers? Monday he got a plane from Miami to Washington, D.C. for Thursday before the $225 rush started. The search for last hours last hours was one of the most exhausting things I have experienced for quite some time.

By the time he checked the planes again on Tuesday, they had gone up to $1,900 per capita. "How come there's no contingency costs? Mercurius, a medical sciences and African-American literature graduate at the University of Miami, said: "What happens to those who can' t buy a plane now? With the very costly rates for the few remaining places, what we see is just the default price for every trip wherever there is a high level of traffic.....

However, the law of offer and request applies to a hurricane as it does all year round, and high fares are not uncommon for last-minute passes, said Seth Kaplan, managing associate of Airline Weekly. Rates may drastically vary if bought less than three business day prior to your flight date. Mr Kaplan said that it is clear that airline companies will not raise fares as most routes are fully booked.

With no way of anticipating a thunderstorm, it was only at the last moment that carriers started demanding higher fares - as with all last-minute seating. "I was told by the fact that everything was gone so quickly that (without reacting and adjusting manually) the airline companies sold the chairs quite cheaply, so most of the chairs were gone quickly... and then yes, you'll see that the last one was sold at a wacky price," Kaplan said.

Less flight this weeks in comparison to last weeks, a vacation end. Flight information supplier Diio Mi reports that this Thursday there will be 10 per cent fewer places at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and 4 per cent fewer places at Miami International Airport than last Thursday. "Apparently not what the carriers would have been planning if they had known!

Air carriers have been insistent that they should not try to fix prices for undercover travellers. "Our tariff structure has not been altered and we have actually created capacities to attract clients out of the affected areas," American Lines spokesperson Katie Cody said in a comment. It has added several additional services - from St. Maarten, St. Kitts, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos and San Juan, Puerto Rico - and has switched to bigger planes on some services, one of which from Miami to Philadelphia on Wednesday.

Tuesday evening, American had 33 destinations - Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Key West, Palm Beach and Sarasota - in its wait programme for flight affected by the storms until September 12. Mr Kaplan said airline companies make more cash if they can afford to pay for many additional trips as well as adding additional trips to the Super Bowl and other high quality outings.

Inflow of new arrivals reduces prices and is a beneficial practice for the airlines. However, in such an unforeseeable occurrence as a stormy weather, it is difficult for airlines to include a large number of aircraft. JetBlue Airways limited all its Florida and other other Caribbean services to $99 per flight on Wednesday.

Connections have been limited to $159 per way, tax included. However, flying at this rate was quick. The ones who couldn't catch a cheap plane got a slim schedule of choices. Incapable to foot the high cost, Diaz Tuesday night said the families instead looked at $60 per capita Megabus ticket to Orlando, where other members of the families reside.

Dyaz said her unit was in South Florida when Hurricane Andrew caught 1992 as a Category 5 disturbance finished the location - the Lappic Irma was as on Tuesday.