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Airfares had their biggest monthly jump since records began from June to July this

year.

That's according to the latest inflation data.

We'll hear from one of our best-known travel agents on why that is and how potentially we can try and get around it as consumers. Also today, we'll speak to the boss of one of the four Welsh Rugby Union teams potentially facing the axe as the domestic game tries to avoid financial ruin there and also on the programme. Well, not to be so nervous about it. What will be will be once you've done them.

So you can always retake things as well. Oh, another horrible wait, isn't it? Yeah, just some of the advice for the thousands of students who will receive their GCSE results a little bit later on this morning. Wake up to Money with Will Bay. Yeah, morning. Welcome to Wake Up to Money on Thursday, the 21st of August, just gone

5 o'clock in the morning. We're with you this morning.

Thanks as always for being Yeah, morning. Welcome to wake up to money on Thursday the 21st of August, just gone 5 o'clock in the morning.

We're with you this morning. Thanks as always for being with us. Yeah, pretty hideous that way for

GCSE results, wasn't it as well? So good luck if you are up and about waiting for them or if you

are a mum or dad or someone who is doing so. We've got loads to keep you occupied over the next hour. We might not be telling you anything brand new. If you've already had the shock of paying out for your summer holiday, we're about to jet off. But we're going to try and dig into why the price of airfares continues to rise quite so sharply. And that was part of that, surprisingly steep rise in the headline rate of inflation 2, up to 3.8%.

So we'll be digging through all of that as well.

I know Sean and the guys yesterday were previewing that, so we'll pull out the most important bits of that kind of inflation data and what's kind of telling us about what's going on in the wider economy.

And we're also going to hear about those stark proposals that we mentioned in the headlines there for Wales's rugby clubs could be cut from four down to two professional teams.

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