ALTA Member Airlines Passenger Traffic Increases 2.4% in July

Miami, September 12, 2014 – The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that its member airlines carried 16.0 million passengers in July, up 2.4% from the previous year.

Traffic (RPK) grew 3.2% and capacity (ASK) increased 1.8%, bringing up the load factor to 82.2%, 1.1 percentage points higher than in July 2013.

The number of passengers carried year-to-date increased 5.8% versus the same period of the previous year, reaching 102.3 million passengers. During the aforementioned period, traffic (RPK) rose 6.0%, capacity (ASK) increased 2.7%, and the passenger load factor reached 79.3%, 2.5 percentage points higher than the previous year.

Freight ton kilometers increased 2.3% in July and 0.3% year-to-date.