Air Travel Costs More, Has Fewer Options This Holiday Season

The average cost of a flight is higher this year than last, with fewer workers and fewer flights adding to the issue.

Millions of travelers this holiday season will have to make sacrifices.

"I've passed up a couple opportunities," traveler Gabriel Harley said. "I had some free time earlier this year, and I was gonna go out to California from Indianapolis, and it was just cost prohibitive."

As the cost of getting from here to there is climbing, it could mean less travel.