The recent year-over-year declines in total U.S. air sales and in the number of corporate trips seemed to level off in June, according to the latest monthly report from Airlines Reporting Corp.
The number of trips in June sold by corporate agencies, those with at least 70 percent self-reported corporate and government business, and settled by ARC declined for the sixth month in a row. However, the rate of the decline significantly slowed, according to ARC. Corporate trips in June were down 0.41 percent year over year, which is less than the 8 percent drop reported for May and the 6.2 percent decline in April.
Total June U.S sales settled by ARC held steady at more than $7.6 billion, an increase of 0.3 percent year over year after four months of consecutive declines. Total June passenger trips were up 3 percent year over year to nearly 23.4 million. Of those, nearly 14.7 million were domestic trips, up 3.2 percent from a year prior, and about 8.7 million were international trips, an increase of 2.6 percent versus June 2024.
ARC also reported half-year totals, with U.S. sales from January through June down 1 percent year over year to $52.3 billion and total passenger trips up 2 percent to 152.7 million.
"Airlines and travel agencies were challenged with a rapidly changing economic environment in the first half of the year," ARC chief commercial officer Steve Solomon said in a statement. "Despite the increased uncertainty, ARC's data shows the strength of air travel demand, underscoring the importance of commercial air travel connecting people and businesses."
New Distribution Capability transactions in June accounted for 21.9 percent of the total transactions reported and settled by ARC, up from the 21.5 percent settled in June 2024. The number of agencies reporting NDC transactions in June totaled 968.
The June average price for a U.S. domestic roundtrip ticket was $536, up from $526 reported a year prior and from $530 reported for May 2025. For the first half of the year, however, the average ticket price fell 2 percent year over year to $543.
The average price in June of an economy-class ticket increased 2 percent year over year to $493. The average price for a premium-class ticket increased 4 percent for the same period to $1,258.
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