Originally Posted by
Colonel_Klink
Does anyone have any idea on the stats of people who would be booking domestic flights with a travel agent? As a percentage of total bookings, it’s hard thinking that the number would be too high.
Pre-pandemic, around 10 percent of domestic bookings went through agents. Apparently that increased during the pandemic but the data underpinning that is scrappy, based on reported intentions rather than actual booking numbers. It wouldn't be a significant percentage.
Rex are not going to double pax bookings off the back of the agency deal - that's pie in sky. Notably the announcement did nothing to their share price.