Whole Gross sales Boosted by 21% Month-Over-Month Enhance in Worldwide Passenger Journeys
ARLINGTON, Va., November 18, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Airways Reporting Corp. (ARC) at present launched knowledge displaying ARC-accredited journey company air ticket gross sales elevated 199% 12 months over 12 months in October 2021. The consolidated greenback worth of tickets offered by businesses throughout October totaled $4.3 billion, the third month in 2021 for which gross sales have topped $4 billion.*
Month over month, October 2021 outcomes confirmed:
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Whole gross sales up 33%.
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Whole passenger journeys elevated 14%.
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U.S. home journeys elevated 11%.
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Worldwide journeys elevated 21%.
“The announcement that the U.S. would open its borders to vaccinated worldwide vacationers on November 8 led to a major enhance in airline ticket purchases all through October,” stated Steve Solomon, vp of world gross sales, advertising and marketing, operations and buyer expertise at ARC. “We noticed double-digit proportion will increase in new tickets from European international locations to the U.S., a optimistic signal for the journey business as we enter the vacation months.”
Whole passenger journeys settled by ARC in October 2021 elevated 115% 12 months over 12 months from 8.1 million to 17.6 million. U.S. home passenger journeys elevated 112% to 12.1 million YOY. Worldwide passenger journeys elevated 123% to five.4 million over the identical interval. The typical U.S. round-trip ticket value in October 2021 was $425, a 13% enhance from $377 in October 2020.
Yr over 12 months, October 2021 EMD gross sales elevated 157% to $7,861,025. EMD transactions elevated 146% to 163,212.**
Extra detailed data is on the market on ARC’s sales statistics page. Further breakdown of company, leisure and on-line ticket gross sales may be discovered on the ARC COVID-19 data page.
About ARC:
As a pacesetter in air journey intelligence and omnichannel distribution, ARC gives platforms, instruments and insights that assist the worldwide journey neighborhood join, develop and thrive. ARC permits the various retailing methods of its prospects by offering progressive know-how, versatile settlement options and entry to the world’s most complete air transaction dataset. In 2019, ARC managed greater than $97.4 billion in transactions between airways and journey businesses, representing greater than 302 million passenger journeys. For extra data, please go to arccorp.com.
Notes for Editors:
*Ticket Gross sales
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Outcomes are based mostly on month-to-month gross sales knowledge ending October 31, 2021, from 10,897 U.S. retail and company journey company areas, satellite tv for pc ticket printing workplaces and on-line journey businesses. Outcomes don’t embody gross sales of tickets bought immediately from airways.
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The typical ticket value (USD) is for a round-trip ticket settled by ARC for an itinerary that included solely U.S. home journey.
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Passenger journeys embody the whole 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 offer a internet view of touring passengers.
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U.S. home passenger journeys embody the whole quantity settled by ARC the place the itinerary is wholly throughout the U.S. Worldwide passenger journeys embody the whole quantity settled by ARC the place some or all of the journey happens to airports exterior the U.S. or originates exterior the U.S.
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Whole gross sales are equal to the whole quantity paid for a ticket, which incorporates taxes and costs.
**Digital Miscellaneous Paperwork (EMD)
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Consists of charges for services reminiscent of upgraded seats, checked baggage, an unaccompanied minor, pet-in-cabin, and many others.
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