U.S. leisure air travel bookings have increased in recent weeks, though demand for more lucrative business travel remains down, according to US Airways Group Inc chief executive Doug Parker.

Published: 19 Jun 2009

U.S. leisure air travel bookings have increased in recent weeks, though demand for more lucrative business travel remains down, according to US Airways Group Inc chief executive Doug Parker.

“We have seen a nice uptick in leisure demand, leisure bookings, in the last couple of weeks which we believe is encouraging,” Parker said, according to Reuters.

“It would be more encouraging if it were business,” he added. “There is something going on here that is different than we had seen in the last few months.”

Parker also said that the increase in leisure bookings came without added incentives on tickets. He cautioned that it had been only a couple of weeks of bookings, but that the increase in the volume of bookings was significant.