ARC, the financial settlement link between airlines and travel sellers, reports that the consolidated dollar value of airline tickets sold by U.S.-based travel agencies has gone up 4.85 percent year-over-year in the first eight months of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011,
Airline ticket sales by travel agents went up 11.6 percent over the same period in 2010.
From January through August 2012, ticket sales totaled $60 billion, compared to $57.2 billion in 2011, and $53.8 billion in 2010.
Source: ARC
