The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced today that Latin American and Caribbean airlines carried 20.6 million passengers in April 2018 and increased 6.1% (1,193,015 more passengers) compared to the previous year. (see table 1)
Traffic measured in RPK grew 8.2% and capacity (ASK) increased 8.4%, bringing up the load factor to 81.7% (0.2 percentage points lower than in April 2017).
Traffic to/from Latin America & Caribbean
Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 2.1 million passengers to and from Latin America and the Caribbean in April 2018 and up 8.7% from the previous year. (see table 2) Traffic measured in RPK grew 8.4% and capacity (ASK) increased 11.2%, bringing the load factor to 81.7%.
