U.S. Agency Ticket Trajectory Tilts Downward As Recovery Stalls

The rate of week-over-week growth in airline tickets booked through U.S. travel agencies and settled through ARC has been on a monthlong retreat from the upward climb out of mid-April's demand depths, according to ARC settlement data through July 12. With confirmed U.S. Covid-19 cases rising this past month and U.S. agency air transactions down-sloping, the wrong curve has flattened.