Business Travel News
Ancillary revenue growth in 2025 outpaced overall revenue growth for airlines by nearly two to one, according to the latest report from IdeaWorksCompany, released Tuesday.
Total ancillary airline revenue in 2025 for the 58 carriers that appeared in each this and last year’s reports rose about $13.2 billion year over year, a 13.4 percent increase compared with overall airline revenue growth of 7.2 percent, according to the 2026 SeatMaps.com Yearbook of Ancillary Revenue by IdeaWorksCompany. For those same carriers, traffic increased 2.5 percent for the period, showing that “ancillary revenue is a major contributing factor” to carriers’ bottom-line growth.