Airline Industry Update: Detailed Pricing Analysis

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Airline Industry Update: Detailed Pricing Analysis

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North America Industry Date

United States 18 May 2026

Airline Industry

Industrials Industry Update

Airlines Update

Detailed Pricing Analysis

Michael Linenberg

Airline Fare Monitor Research Analyst

Each week, we collect airfares across 500+ of the largest domestic and +1-212-250-9254

international city pairs (ranked by ASMs) for the publicly traded US airlines using a

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program developed by Deutsche Bank’s Data Innovation Group (dbDIG). The dbDIG Research Analyst

fare data in this report is representative of the lowest available published fares for +1-212-250-5935

one-way travel on a walk-up basis (defined as fares published on Thursday of each

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week for travel on Friday of the same week) and a 21-day advance purchase (21AP)

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basis. The week-over-week and year-over-year comparisons are color-coded to

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provide readers with a magnitude of the change (green reflects fare increases, red

reflects fare decreases). The markets' average is a straight average but week-over- Doug Runte, CFA

week and year-over-year changes exclude any "NA" fare comparisons. Also, be Research Analyst

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aware that these fares are subject to inventory control and a published fare does not

necessarily constitute a purchased fare.

Notable observations in recent fare scrape data:

n Average walk-up domestic airfares for Friday, May 15 were mixed week-

over-week. Gainers include Hawaiian (+7.9%, to $372 one-way),

Southwest (+6.0%, to $377 one-way), JetBlue (+6.0%, to $361 one-way),

Alaska (+5.3%, to $424 one-way), and Delta (+3.4%, to $560 one-way).

Decliners include Allegiant (-8.8%, to $256 one-way), United (-2.0%, to