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Aviation

First Quarter 2022 Average Air Fare Increases 16.9% from First Quarter 2021

The average U.S. domestic air fare decreased in the first quarter of 2022 to $328, down 1.8% from the fourth quarter 2021 inflation-adjusted fare of $335.  Adjusted for inflation (constant 2022 dollars), the average 1Q 2022 air fare was down 11.1% from $370 in the same quarter of 2020 and down 16.6...

April 2022 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

U.S. airlines carried 72.2 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in April 2022, seasonally adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS), up 4.4% from March.