00:02As you can see there's a flurry of people behind me checking in for flights at Melbourne's Terminal 2 International
00:07departures this morning.
00:09112,000 people are expected to filter through this terminal today and many more at airports right around the country.
00:15Of course the Easter long weekend and Good Friday being among one of the busiest travel days across the calendar
00:21year.
00:21Many people that we've been speaking to this morning say they're undeterred by the rising prices that they are paying
00:27to go on these holidays.
00:28Of course the conflict in the Middle East continues to drag out and jack up the price of jet fuel
00:33around the world.
00:34Take a listen to what some travellers checking in for flights this morning had to say.
00:39Budgeted so we made sure we sort of booked a thing like a hotel or different bits every pay.
00:44So we sort of budgeted through and made sure because it's pretty expensive to book it all in one hit.
00:48We bought the tickets before the petrol price rises.
00:52So that was still expensive I think just being Easter.
00:54Prices were extremely high but it is a tour.
00:59It's an 11 hour tour.
01:01So roughly about how much was it 600 odd dollars or two.
01:05Now the Australian Travel Industry Association says that flights on Asian and some US airlines have grown three times as
01:13much since before the conflict in the Middle East started.
01:16Meanwhile some Middle Eastern carriers have reduced their fares.
01:19A fare from Sydney to London next month is as low as $1400 return.
01:24The advice from the Department of Home Affairs and Smart Traveller though is to monitor the situation.
01:30Of course there's a do not travel warning for many of those destinations in the Middle East as the conflict
01:35continues.
01:36The
01:36A fare from Sydney to London is a two hour tour to the final hour tour to the final hour
01:39tour.
01:39The
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