Airline Yields Are Down, But Not at Low-Cost Carriers

We’ve written before about how the pandemic created a divergence in consumer behavior in the United States (see our Wal-Mart vs Dollar General comp store sales analysis for more). Here, we take a look at airline yields (in dollars per revenue passenger mile) and note a similar divergence. While most airlines posted a drop in pricing during the pandemic, two low-cost carriers (Allegiant and Frontier) actually saw upticks in yield instead. Data from the MIT Airline Data Project.

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