Why are flights more expensive in the US?

Even though flights across Europe and the US are flown in similar planes across similar distances, airfares in the US are substantially more expensive; why so?

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Image and Footage Credits:
Cover photo illustration: Sarina Finkelstein
United States satellite image by night: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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[xavierob]

I had noticed that domestic flights in the US seemed more expensive than here so I was glad to come across this video! I thought it was a very good, informative video, so thank you for making it!

[christodang]

Domestic flights in the US are expensive?
*laughs in Canadian*