March U.S. Air Travel Sales and Average Ticket Price Reach Pandemic Highs

Total Passenger Excursions Ongoing to Rise Thirty day period more than Month In spite of Greater Airfare



Airways Reporting Corp. (ARC) introduced info showing ARC-accredited vacation agency air ticket sales totaling $7.8 billion in March 2022, a 180% enhance yr above calendar year from March 2021.* The internet gross sales overall marks a next consecutive pandemic higher and the initially time profits have eclipsed $7 billion since February 2020.
Month above thirty day period, March 2022 results showed:
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- Total income elevated 45%.
- Full passenger journeys improved 25%.
- U.S. domestic visits up 25%.
- Intercontinental excursions up 26%.




“March’s income were fueled by sturdy expansion in company vacation, which improved from 60% of pre-pandemic ranges in the very first 7 days of March to 70% of pre-pandemic concentrations in the final week,” stated Steve Solomon, vice president of world wide customers and data solutions at ARC. “Despite increasing airfares, the quantity of passenger trips ongoing to accelerate as international travel bookings neared pre-pandemic ranges.”
In March 2022, overall passenger journeys settled by ARC elevated 74% year over year from 14.3 million to 24.9 million. International outings nearly doubled yr about year, totaling 8.7 million, although U.S. domestic outings increased 64% to 16.3 million in the similar period of time.
The regular U.S. spherical-vacation ticket selling price in March 2022 was $540, a 41% raise from $382 in March 2021. The March 2022 typical eclipsed pre-pandemic degrees by 11%, when the normal ticket selling price was $487. The previous time this regular was earlier mentioned $530 was in June 2015, when the normal ticket selling price was $548.
March 2022 EMD gross sales increased 103% 12 months in excess of calendar year to $11,739,523. EMD transactions improved 86% to 232,848 over the identical interval.**
More detailed information and facts is accessible on ARC’s product sales figures website page. More breakdown of corporate, leisure and on the web ticket revenue can be observed on the ARC COVID-19 facts site.
*Ticket Revenue
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- Effects are primarily based on month-to-month product sales information ending March 31, 2022, from 10,724 U.S. retail and company vacation agency places, satellite ticket printing workplaces and on the internet journey businesses. Success do not contain product sales of tickets ordered straight from airways.
- The normal ticket price (USD) is for a spherical-vacation ticket settled as a result of ARC for an itinerary that incorporated only U.S. domestic travel.
- Passenger visits include the whole quantity of travellers getting a journey from just one airport to a different using direct or connecting flights. Newly issued outings are included, and refunded journeys are deducted to provide a web see of traveling travellers.
- U.S. domestic passenger outings include the overall selection settled by means of ARC where the itinerary is wholly inside of the U.S. International passenger visits consist of the whole amount settled through ARC where by some or all the travel happens to airports outside the house the U.S. or originates outside the house the U.S.
- Full revenue are equal to the overall amount paid out for a ticket, which includes taxes and expenses.





**Electronic Miscellaneous Documents (EMD)
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- Consists of costs for products and solutions these types of as upgraded seats, checked luggage, an unaccompanied minimal, pet-in-cabin, and many others.

