Airlines show no sign of relenting on the industry push towards ancillary revenue, with the latest projection suggesting a $7.3 billion year-over-year increase – that’s $49.9 billion of income for global airlines overall in 2014.
The estimate comes from the latest IdeaWorks/CarTrawler Worldwide Estimate of Ancillary Revenue, and pegs this ancillary total as the highest yet in continued efforts towards sustained profitability in a traditionally not-so-profitable industry.
The breakdown of the year-over-year growth of airline ancillaries shows the largest year-over-year increase for 2014 in terms of share of overall revenue since 2010:
