Railways and Aviation: Fares

(asked on 24th October 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Andy McDonald Portrait
Andy McDonald
(Labour - Middlesbrough)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) rail and (b) air fares that were booked online in each of the last three years.

Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 1st November 2018

(a) DfT does not routinely hold data on the number of rail fares booked online.

(b) The proportions of surveyed air passengers departing selected UK airports that booked their air ticket online in each of the last three years are shown in the table below.

Proportion of passengers booking their air ticket through the internet, 2015-2017 Source: CAA Departing Passenger Survey

Survey airport

2015

2016

2017

Birmingham

77.60%

76.90%

76.10%

Bristol

79.60%

-

-

Cardiff

68.80%

-

-

East Midlands

80.50%

78.50%

-

Leeds Bradford

-

-

29.50%

London City

64.90%

65.30%

67.20%

Heathrow

-

68.30%

69.60%

Liverpool

94.00%

93.00%

91.10%

Manchester

69.30%

69.60%

70.40%

Newcastle

-

-

74.10%

Stansted

93.10%

89.80%

92.80%

Unweighted sample size

64,161

48,836

57,777

Note:

1

Based on the question Where did you book your ticket?' asked as part of the CAA departing passenger survey. The CAA departing passenger survey is asked at a selection of UK airports every year to obtain information about air travellers and the determinants of the travel market.

2

'-' indicates that the airport was not surveyed in the year, or the question of ticket booking was not asked to passengers.

3

Booking through the internet can entail booking online with the airline directly or through a tour operator/travel agent.

4

Passengers surveyed may be of any residency, and are either travelling from a UK airport or passing through a UK airport when surveyed.

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