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

Complete Passenger Outings Continued to Rise Month over Thirty day period Even with Enhanced Airfare



Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC) introduced information demonstrating ARC-accredited travel company air ticket gross sales totaling $7.8 billion in March 2022, a 180% boost year over yr from March 2021.* The net income overall marks a second consecutive pandemic higher and the initial time income have eclipsed $7 billion since February 2020.
Month around thirty day period, March 2022 outcomes confirmed:
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- Total product sales improved 45%.
- Full passenger visits amplified 25%.
- U.S. domestic trips up 25%.
- Worldwide journeys up 26%.




“March’s profits ended up fueled by solid growth in company vacation, which improved from 60% of pre-pandemic ranges in the first week of March to 70% of pre-pandemic concentrations in the very last week,” explained Steve Solomon, vice president of world prospects and details solutions at ARC. “Despite climbing airfares, the selection of passenger visits ongoing to accelerate as intercontinental journey bookings neared pre-pandemic stages.”
In March 2022, full passenger visits settled by ARC increased 74% 12 months above yr from 14.3 million to 24.9 million. Global visits just about doubled calendar year in excess of yr, totaling 8.7 million, whilst U.S. domestic visits increased 64% to 16.3 million in the very same interval.
The common U.S. round-excursion ticket rate in March 2022 was $540, a 41% raise from $382 in March 2021. The March 2022 ordinary eclipsed pre-pandemic concentrations by 11%, when the common ticket value was $487. The final time this normal was previously mentioned $530 was in June 2015, when the typical ticket value was $548.
March 2022 EMD sales improved 103% calendar year about calendar year to $11,739,523. EMD transactions enhanced 86% to 232,848 above the exact same time period.**
More thorough details is out there on ARC’s product sales data page. Extra breakdown of corporate, leisure and on line ticket revenue can be found on the ARC COVID-19 knowledge page.
*Ticket Income
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- Final results are based on month to month revenue details ending March 31, 2022, from 10,724 U.S. retail and company vacation agency areas, satellite ticket printing offices and online travel businesses. Results do not involve sales of tickets bought directly from airways.
- The ordinary ticket price tag (USD) is for a spherical-trip ticket settled by means of ARC for an itinerary that incorporated only U.S. domestic journey.
- Passenger outings consist of the complete number of passengers getting a journey from just one airport to yet another applying direct or connecting flights. Newly issued visits are additional, and refunded excursions are deducted to present a net view of traveling passengers.
- U.S. domestic passenger visits involve the full selection settled by means of ARC exactly where the itinerary is wholly in just the U.S. Worldwide passenger excursions include things like the whole selection settled as a result of ARC where by some or all the vacation occurs to airports outdoors the U.S. or originates outdoors the U.S.
- Whole gross sales are equivalent to the complete sum paid out for a ticket, which features taxes and fees.





**Digital Miscellaneous Documents (EMD)
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- Consists of fees for goods and expert services this kind of as upgraded seats, checked luggage, an unaccompanied insignificant, pet-in-cabin, etcetera.