ALTA traffic report July 2016

The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that ALTA member airlines carried 11.7 million passengers in July, up 6.5% from the previous year, excluding domestic traffic in Brazil (see table 1). Traffic (RPK) grew 7% and capacity (ASK) increased 3.8%, bringing up the load factor to 85.6%, equivalent to 2.5 percentage points […]

10th Annual ALTA Aviation Law Americas Conference Taking Place This Week in Mexico City

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the ALTA Aviation Law Americas Conference kicks off this week in Mexico City, Mexico, hosted by CANAERO, and supported by airline partners Aeromar, Aeromexico, and Volaris. ALTA"™s Aviation Law Americas is the region"™s premier legal conference focused specifically on the aviation industry. Attended by top law firms, aviation industry experts and […]

Latin American Airlines: Buyers welcome

Foreign airlines and investors are plowing money into Latin American carriers, and more appears on the way. Why the strong appetite for the region’s airlines? The combination of market, industry and operator-specific factors make Latin America one of the safest bets in the global airline business. As background, in recent months, China’s HNA Group acquired […]

ALTA-IATA safety team meeting

Attended by Lorenzo Sepulveda, the General Director for Safety from the Chilean Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC), Sky Airlines, LATAM, GOL, and IATA, the meeting served as an opportunity to review safety data and to coordinate the establishment of a Chilean national safety group. The campaign, to be led by the DGAC, is coordinating a follow-up […]

Prominent Aviation Safety Experts Focus on Industry Collaboration, Data Sharing and Risk Mitigation Agenda at 7 th ALTA Pan American Safety Summit in Panama City, Panama

ALTA’s 7th Pan American Safety Summit came to a close today. More than 200 aviation safety professionals from around the world participated in the conference in Panama City, Panama, with the objective to promote safety solutions that are critical to the future of the aviation industry in the Latin America and Caribbean region. The collaborative […]

ALTA traffic report april 2016

The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that ALTA member airlines carried 9.5 million passengers in April, up 4% from the previous year, excluding domestic traffic in Brazil (see table 1). Traffic (RPK) grew 5.7% and capacity (ASK) increased 5%, bringing up the load factor to 77.7%, equivalent to 0.5 percentage points […]

Argentina despolitiza su transporte aéreo

Tras una década, la IATA, junto a ALTA y la cámara local; ha vuelto a organizar en la Argentina su Aviation Day, el pasado 27 de mayo. Alejado de los títulos sugeridos para los periódicos de noticias, lo destacable es que tras una jornada intensa, ningún funcionario de gobierno se ufanó de la expresión jurídica […]