2017 U.S.-Booked Air
Volume: $128 million
Consolidated Global TMC: BCD
BTN estimates that media conglomerate Comcast—which owns NBCUniversal,
Xfinity cable and DreamWorks Animation—increased its U.S.-booked air travel
spend by about 2 percent in 2017. Revenue increased about 5 percent to $84.5
billion. Operating and administrative expenses, outside of programming and
production costs, increased about 7 percent to $25 billion. The company at
year-end 2017 had about 164,000 full-time and part-time employees, up from
159,000 a year earlier. On Sept. 22, 2018, Comcast, with a bid worth $39
billion, beat Fox in an auction to buy a majority stake in London-based pay-TV
company Sky.