Hence the reason several of them are eliminating staff, routes, stations and fleet.

I'm shopping for tickets to Toronto for the end of the summer and the prices I'm getting are $1000 to $1200! Thats about $500 more than usual! Outrageous!

Not if they are already losing money on each ticket.

agree

A return ticket yyz to bze end of summer (via MIA) on AA is $829 but a return ticket bze to yyz on AA is $1105. Same mileage, same plane, same staff, same jet fuel...

A return ticket yyz to bgi (Bardados)same dates as above via MIA on AA is $932 and in reverse $1010 but Barbados is almost twice as far from MIA as Belize is.
MIA to BGI 1606 miles
MIA to BZE 877 miles

It used to be cheaper when originating in belize. Its very confusing...

more volume to Barbados than Belize.

But with more demand (volume) wouldn't that allow them to increase not decrease the fare? I think the same airlines service Barbados and Belize except Continental. If they were concerned with the cost of each plane load wouldn't they save money using bigger planes?