Consumer spend is up 4% compared to January.
More than €210m was spent on airline tickets in the first two months of this year.
Kilkenny, Mayo and Longford saw the biggest increases in spend on flights.
AIB’s Spend Trend for February 2024 also saw spend in pubs up 27% last month, partly due to Ireland’s Six Nations rugby campaign.
However Laois pubs were below that average, at 23%.
Clothes spending remained static month on month, but shoppers in Offaly spent an extra 3.7%, one of the biggest increases in that category.
Over all consumer spend was up 4% last month when compared to January.
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