The table below offers a time series of the average domestic round-trip airfare as reported by U.S. passenger airlines to the U.S. Department of Transportation¹. Included in the table are the average base fare, the average bag and change fee revenue per passenger, and the combined average “all-in” base fare. All metrics are expressed in both current and inflation-adjusted dollars ($2017) and does not include government-imposed taxes and fees.

¹ Airfare data comes from the U.S. DOT Passenger Airline Origin and Destination Survey, a 10 percent sample of airline tickets from reporting carriers. The bag fee and change fee data comes from the U.S. DOT Form 41 Survey of U.S. Airlines.