Sparks: How the Iran war is hurting travelers, airline industry

The prince who controls the strait commands the price of passage, revealing that commerce bows not to virtue but to the effective control of necessity.

That the liberty to travel should be constrained by a distant blockade exposes the fragility of a commercial system built without adequate republican safeguards.

How long, O Senators, will you permit a handful of ships to hold the entire republic's commerce hostage, violating every principle of the public good?

The price of a ticket lies outside your control, but your decision to resent the price or accept it remains entirely within your power.

A man laments the cost of flying to his villa while another laments the cost of bread, and only the dog knows which is the true necessity.

An infinite universe contains an infinity of conflicts, yet man still believes his petty strait is the center of all creation.

Hateful things: the polite regret in a clerk's voice while explaining a fare has tripled due to events in a distant sea.

Count the dates, the routes affected, the corporations raising prices, and the pattern of profit extracted from conflict becomes undeniable.

To understand the true cost, one must board the flight and hear the passengers discuss what they are sacrificing to be here.

It is a most ingenious system whereby the gentleman pays more for his diversion while the admiral receives a medal for creating the shortage.

Aren't these the same companies that raised fares last year for profit, now raising them again for a more fashionable excuse?

'Market fluctuations necessitate a temporary fare adjustment' - a sentence whose polished syntax exists to conceal the violence it describes.