LATAM Airlines Group reports preliminary monthly statistics for October 2018
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. and its subsidiaries, (“LATAM Airlines Group” or “the Company”) (NYSE: LTM / IPSA: LTM), reported its preliminary monthly traffic statistics for October 2018 compared with the same period of 2017. System passenger traffic increased 1.5%, while capacity rose by 7.0%. As a result, the Company’s load factor for the month fell […]
Heathrow Airport soars with another consecutive month of growth
Heathrow has reported that during October the airport experienced strong passenger growth of nearly 4.5 per cent; almost seven million passengers travelled through the airport, which was reinforced by the half-term getaway traffic. Heathrow marked two years of consecutive record monthly volumes for the hub airport. The increases in passenger numbers are coming from larger […]
Global Passenger Traffic rose 5.5% in September
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for September showing that demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometers, or RPKs) rose 5.5% compared to the same month in 2017. This was a slowdown from the 6.4% growth recorded in August year-over-year. Capacity climbed 5.8% and load factor slipped for the first time […]
Argentina had the best October in terms of domestic passengers: EANA
Last month finished as the best October in terms of domestic passengers (1.34 million) and it exceeeds by 41% the value for October 2015, when there were 949 thousand passengers. Several airports set new historical highs in terms of domestic passengers (both embarked and disembarked): Córdoba, with 226 thousand passengers, exceending previous record by 4% […]
Brazil’s largest airline goes after higher-paying customers with a new perk: No middle seat
Brazil’s largest airline is trying a new tack to get passengers to pay more expensive fares: No middle seats. Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes is launching its first nonstop flights from Brazil to the U.S. in early November. The airline will use its new Boeing 737 Max 8 jets on the routes from Fortaleza in northerneastern […]
23 million passengers transported the airlines of Latin America and the Caribbean: ALTA
The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced today that Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 23 million passengers in August and up 6.6% (1,426,159 more passengers) from the previous year. Luis Felipe de Oliveira, Executive Director of ALTA, said: «Nearly 50% of the absolute growth in passenger traffic took place in the […]
VINCI Airports reported third-quarter 2018 traffic
Thanks to its ambitious international development policy, the VINCI Airports network handled more than 180 million passengers for the first time in a 12-month year-on-year period. In the third quarter of 2018, traffic across the 44 platforms managed by VINCI Airports reported a +2.8%* increase relative to the third quarter of 2017, with a record […]
ASUR Announces Total Passenger Traffic for September 2018
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: ASR; BMV: ASUR) ASUR a leading international airport group with operations in Mexico, the U.S. and Colombia, today announced that total passenger traffic for September 2018 increased 15.4% when compared to September 2017. Passenger traffic rose 8.3% in Mexico, 56.6% in Puerto Rico and 15.8% in Colombia. […]
Group Traffic and Capacity Statistics
Group traffic in September, measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres, increased by 5.9 per cent versus September 2017; Group capacity measured in Available Seat Kilometres rose by 7.2 per cent. STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENTS On 12 September, Aer Lingus announced two new North American routes that will start next summer. Its flights between Dublin and Minneapolis-St. Paul commence […]
Strengthening Indian Aviation Preparing for a Trebling of Passengers
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on the government of India to maximize the potential contribution of aviation to India’s development by addressing infrastructure constraints that limit growth and government policies that impose excessive costs on aviation. Growth forecasts for India indicate a trebling of passenger demand by 2037 when some 500 million people […]
