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United Airlines remains the world's leader in making money unrelated to ticket sales, having nearly quadrupled its ancillary revenues since 2008, according to a new study released this week by IdeaWorksCompany.
United earned $6.2 billion last year in non-ticket revenue, about $1.5 billion more than American Airlines, almost $2.5 billion more than Delta Air Lines and roughly $4 billion more than Southwest Airlines. Air France/KLM, fourth on the list, behind Delta, was the only non-U.S. airline in the top five, reporting nearly $2.2 billion in ancillary revenues.
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The study, called the CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue Yearbook, re
