Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC) has released data from its latest survey showing ARC-accredited travel agency air ticket sales totaling $7.3 billion in September 2022, a 129 percent year-over-year increase.
Results are based on monthly sales data ending September 30, 2022, from 10,630 U.S. retail and corporate travel agency locations, satellite ticket printing offices and online travel agencies. Month over month, September 2022 results showed:
- Total sales increased 1 percent
- Total passenger trips decreased 2 percent
- U.S. domestic trips decreased 2 percent
- International trips decreased 2 percent
“Travel demand remained relatively flat throughout September as vacation season wound down and airlines, airports and other stakeholders in the travel industry addressed the issues that impacted summer travel,” said Steve Solomon, chief commercial officer at ARC. “As we look ahead to the final quarter of the year, we expect additional recovery in the corporate and online travel agency sectors while leisure travel holds at its current pre-pandemic levels.”
Total passenger trips settled by ARC in September 2022 increased 38 percent year over year from 15.4 million to 21.2 million. U.S. domestic trips increased 26 percent year over year to 13.9 million, with international trips increasing 65 percent to 7.3 million over the same period.
The average round-trip U.S. air travel ticket price in September 2022 was $560. This marks the first month-over-month increase since May 2022, and a 44 percent increase year over year.
Additionally, electronic miscellaneous document (EMD) sales increased 119 percent year over year to $14,441,242. EMD transactions increased 93 percent to 256,887 over the same period.
Source: ARC
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