This is the seventh edition of T2RL's report on the airline distribution market taking into account the channels through which airlines' seats are sold.

This edition, published in September 2025 is based on 2024 passengers boarded and describes the state of the distribution market following the COVID-19 crisis and in the early stages of the shift within the industry towards adopting modern retailing technologies including NDC and OOSD.

T2RL's annual research into global passenger volumes highlights 4.81 billion passengers boarded in 2024. Traffic volumes have now exceeded those of the pre-pandemic year of 2019. There are variations on a regional basis. Asia Pacific outside China, and Africa are both still to pass 2019 numbers but all other regions have now done so. Despite this the industry has still lost a huge amount of growth that we would have expected between 2019-2025.
Link below to download this 27 page report.