Air travel

Americans will face the highest domestic airfares seen in the past decade, but international travelers may enjoy among the lowest. Rick Seaney, chief executive of FareCompare.com, says that over the past year airlines raised average domestic prices 20 percent to 40 percent and have shown a willingness to keep cutting schedules to ensure full planes and high prices. Seaney predicts that consumers will find “OK targeted deals’’ for slower travel days like Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays and in slower periods of the year. International travel will be a relative bargain because US carriers, seeking more of the lucrative market, have piled more resources into the routes and are facing competition from foreign carriers. Seaney sees bargains for Europe and South America, but less so for Asia.