According to the Airline Reporting Corporation, for all three quarters to date of 2012, Mega Agencies have issued 25% of the domestic airline tickets issued by the agency community.
The Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) grew as a percentage of total transactions (42%) in the 2nd quarter, but reverted back to 41% of total agency sales in the 3rd quarter.
The number of tickets issued by all other travel agencies in the US grew to 34% of total in the 3rd quarter, after a slight dip in the 2nd quarter.
Tomorrow we will look at the corresponding split in sales for domestic air tickets issued by these three constituents.
Stay tuned.