The charts below give information about the price of tickets on one airline between Sydney and Melbourne over a two-week period in 2013.
The bar charts illustrate the airfare of a particular airline between Sydney and Melbourne over a course of two weeks in the year 2013. From an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that the price of flight tickets tended to be higher on Monday and towards the end of both weeks, regardless of the route. It is also noteworthy that Friday was the most expensive day across all routes and weeks, except for Sydney-to-Melbourne flights in week 1, which peaked on Monday.
As for flights from Sydney to Melbourne in week 1, airfares started at $80 on Monday, then dropped to only around $35 the next day and grew steadily to slightly over $40 on Thursday. On Friday, the price of flight tickets spiked to a high of $75, followed by a drop to precisely $50 on Sunday to end week 1. In week 2, Monday’s airfare was not as high as the previous week, standing at $50. This figure then followed a similar trend with week 1, peaking around $75 on Friday.
Looking next at the flights from Melbourne to Sydney in the first week, a relatively high airfare was registered on Monday at $60. The price subsequently fell to around $37 and remained at this level until Thursday prior to surging to a zenith of $80 on Friday. From Saturday in week 1 to Thursday in week 2, airfare declined gradually to 38$. The cost of airline tickets jumped again on Friday to reach 60$ before dipping to a less significant extent than in week 1 to end the period at $51 on Sunday.
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