{"id":59360,"date":"2020-07-20T21:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/june-air-travel-study-shows-signs-of-life-for-airline-ifc-markets\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:01:54","slug":"june-air-travel-study-shows-signs-of-life-for-airline-ifc-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/june-air-travel-study-shows-signs-of-life-for-airline-ifc-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"June Air Travel Study Shows Signs of Life for Airline, IFC Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>There may be a sliver of good news for satellite In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) providers looking to rebound from the COVID-19 shutdown, according to new air travel industry data released by the <strong>Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC)<\/strong> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>In a study that examined net sales from ARC-accredited travel agencies, ARC found that airline travel sales increased 337% in June 2020 compared to May 2020, representing the highest monthly sales growth since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. During that same period of time, ARC noted a 56% increase in the number of passenger trips, with U.S. domestic flights up 57% and international trips up 53%.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines and in-flight service providers have been hit especially hard in 2020 as COVID-19 preventative measures and travel restrictions have made it difficult for vacationers to travel. ARC\u2019s study highlighted the overall impact of the pandemic. Despite the sharp uptick in June, year-over-year net airline sales are still down 94%, with the consolidated dollar value of tickets transacted by agencies last month totaling $469 million, compared to $7.9 billion in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The number of U.S. domestic trips in 2020 is down 72% for the year compared to 4.3 million in 2019, with international trips down 84%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be a sliver of good news for satellite In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) providers looking to rebound from the COVID-19 shutdown, according to new air travel industry data released by the Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC) earlier this week. In a study that examined net sales from ARC-accredited travel agencies, ARC found that airline travel sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}