U.S. travel agencies in April processed 3.1 percent more total air transactions than they did a year earlier,

according to ARC, with growth in domestic transactions (1.7 percent) lagging international (6.4 percent). Total April sales excluding refunds and exchanges rose 1.4 percent, as a 12.8 percent jump in airline fees helped to offset a 0.2 percent drop in airfare sales. That drop in total fare sales resulted from a 3.2 percent decline in domestic airfare sales canceling out a 3.2 percent increase in international fare sales.