US airline ancillary revenue to grow

A new report from IdeaWorksCompany and CarTrawler, project airline ancillary revenue will reach $82.2 billion worldwide in 2017.  The CarTrawler Worldwide Estimate of Ancillary Revenue represents a 264% increase from the 2010 figure of $22.6 billion, which was the first annual ancillary revenue estimate. Earlier this year, CarTrawler and IdeaWorksCompany reported the ancillary revenue disclosed by 66 airlines for 2016.  These statistics were applied to a larger list of 184 airlines to provide a truly global projection of ancillary revenue activity by the world’s airlines for 2017. Revenue included in the report includes commissions gained from hotel bookings, the sale