United Ups Revenue Projections on Full Return of Corporate Travel Business


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Plenty of doubters predicted business travel wouldn’t fully return, but recent surges suggest the wider industry could break past its pre-pandemic $1.4 trillion value.

United Airlines is continuing to see a recovery in corporate sales, as it upgrades its outlook for the second quarter. United now expects total revenue per available seat mile to be up 23-25 percent from the same period in 2019, it said in a guidance update on Tuesday, compared to its prior forecast of a 17-percent increase. This is despite predicting it will fly 14