ARC Reports $1.75 Billion Jump in Travel Agency Air Ticket Sales First Half 2019
Total Passenger Trips Grew by 2.4% in Same Period vs. 2018
Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC) announced today that the consolidated dollar value of airline tickets sold in the first half of 2019 by U.S.-based travel agencies increased 3.38% compared to the same period in 2018, totaling $52.4 billion vs. $50.7 billion.* The average U.S. round-trip ticket price in June 2019 increased to $512 vs. $502 in the same period last year.
The total number of passenger trips settled by ARC for U.S. travel agencies in the first half of 2019 increased by 2.4% to 161,850,103 from 157,997,776 during the same period last year.
Electronic Miscellaneous Document (EMD)** sales for the first half of 2019 totaled $44 million, a 2% increase compared to the same period in 2018. EMD transactions declined 3% year-over-year.