Apparently anyone that is hoping to do some traveling this fall can look forward to some increased fees. Travelers on United States airlines will be seeing these increased fares due to the fact that demand has now started to recover.

Farecompare.com’s chief executive, Rick Seaney, said that fares for domestic flights are 16 percent to 20 percent higher than they were just one year ago. He went on to say that demand is going to turn out to be pretty good this year when compared to last year. Lots of people want to take their trips this year, which they missed out on last year. Despite this, since the economy is the way it is, many airlines are just going to stand still for right now and see how things play out. However, it could be a different story come fall.

The United States airline industry has been hit hard for the last two years by the economic downturn. This big downturn pretty much just drained all of the travel demand out of the market. Airlines have, of course, tried to respond by closely managing capacity and launching new fees for products that used to be free. July data for United States airlines shows that these carriers saw more traffic and planes that were nearly 90 percent full on average.

An equity analyst, Basili Alukos, said that obviously planes are fuller so airlines are at a point now where there is an opportunity to add a new plane. Thus, people are going to see airlines start to slowly expand again. Airlines have been able to show some very impressive restraints when it come to managing their numbers.