The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced today that Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 21.5 million passengers in September, and up 7% (or 1,398,831 additional passengers) from the previous year. Traffic (RPK) grew 9.6% and capacity (ASK) increased 12%, bringing up the load factor to 80.5% (1.7 percentage points lower than in September 2017). (see table 1).
Traffic to/from Latin America & Caribbean
Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 2.2 million passengers to and from Latin America and the Caribbean in September, and up 17.4% from the previous year (see table 2). Traffic (RPK) grew 7.8% and capacity (ASK) increased 11%, bringing the load factor to 81.5%.
Luis Felipe de Oliveira, Executive Director at ALTA, said: «As a highlight, Colombia ended the 3-month streak of negative growth with an important increase of 12% in domestic traffic, regarding to September 2017 and, keeping the trend of 2018, the domestic markets of Argentina, Chile and Peru continued to show great dynamism and growth above 10%».
«In the intra-Latin American international market, three markets stood out: Brazil – Chile with a 14% growth in their capacity or the equivalent to 125 additional flights. Argentina – Peru with 116 additional flights (19% growth) and Colombia – Ecuador with 100 additional flights (19% growth). In the Caribbean, highlighted the increase in capacity between Bonaire and Curaçao with 197 additional flights» said de Oliveira.
Traffic data from the following airlines is included in this report: Aerolíneas Argentinas (includes Austral), Aeromar, Aeromexico, Aeromexico Connect, Avianca Holdings, Avianca Brasil, Azul Airlines, Copa Airlines, Copa Airlines Colombia, Flybondi, Interjet, Jetsmart, LATAM Airlines Group, Sky Airline, VivaAerobus, VivaColombia and Volaris.
