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The $10 increase on longer flights means that a $299 one-way cap on fares that Southwest imposed last year is now $309, said Terry Trippler, the airfare analyst at Cheapseats.com. Last year, airlines raised fares in a series of $10 increments over many months, but Mr. Trippler said he did not expect that pattern to be repeated. In all, he predicted that domestic coach leisure fares, typically, nonrefundable fares paid in advance, would rise an average of 10 percent this year and that business fares, typically bought at the last minute, would rise 5 percent on average. Terry Trippler, the airfare analyst at Cheapseats.com, said that the $10 increased on longer flights meant that a $299 one-way cap on fares that Southwest imposed last year was now $309, . Last year, airlines raised fares in a series of $10 increments over many months, but Mr. Trippler said he did not expect that pattern to be repeated. He predicted that domestic coach leisure fares -- typically, nonrefundable fares paid in advance -- would rise an average of 10 percent this year and that business fares, typically bought at the last minute, would rise 5 percent on average.