Complete Month-to-month Gross sales Eclipse $9 Billion for the Third Consecutive Month
At present, Airways Reporting Corp. (ARC) launched information exhibiting Might air ticket gross sales totaled $9 billion for U.S. journey businesses — a 1% lower month over month from April 2024. Passenger journeys totaled 25.7 million, which included a ten% enhance in U.S. home journeys and a 2% enhance in worldwide journeys.
Outcomes for Might 2024 confirmed:
ARC Ticketing Metric |
Complete |
Month-Over- Month Variance |
Yr-Over-Yr Variance |
Complete Gross sales |
$9 billion |
-1 % |
0 % |
Complete Passenger Journeys |
25.7 million |
+1 % |
+7 % |
U.S. Home Journeys |
16.2 million |
0 % |
+10 % |
Worldwide Journeys |
9.5 million |
+1 % |
+2 % |
Common Ticket Value |
$543 |
-1 % |
-3 % |
“Complete gross sales have not been above $9 billion for 3 consecutive months since 2019. It is a signal of the continued energy for air journey in 2024,” stated Steve Solomon, chief industrial officer at ARC. “Vacationers are additionally having fun with airfare that is comparatively unchanged from final yr regardless of value pressures in different components of the financial system.”
Might ancillary gross sales elevated 17% yr over yr to $31 million, whereas ancillary transactions elevated 59% to 564,619 over the identical interval.**
Extra detailed data is obtainable on ARC’s gross sales statistics web page.
*Ticket Gross sales
- Outcomes are based mostly on month-to-month gross sales information ending March 31, 2024, from 10,325 U.S. retail and company journey company areas, satellite tv for pc ticket printing workplaces and on-line journey businesses. Outcomes don’t embrace gross sales of tickets bought straight from airways.
- The common ticket value (USD) is for a round-trip ticket settled by way of ARC for an itinerary that included solely U.S. home journey.
- Passenger journeys embrace the full variety of passengers taking a visit from one airport to a different utilizing direct or connecting flights. Newly issued journeys are added, and refunded journeys are deducted to supply a internet view of touring passengers.
- U.S. home passenger journeys embrace the full quantity settled by way of ARC the place the itinerary is wholly inside the U.S. Worldwide passenger journeys embrace the full quantity settled by way of ARC the place some or all of the journey happens to airports exterior the U.S. or originates exterior the U.S.
- Complete gross sales are equal to the full quantity paid for a ticket, which incorporates taxes and costs.
**Ancillary gross sales
- Consists of charges for services akin to upgraded seats, checked baggage, an unaccompanied minor, pet-in-cabin, and so on.