ALTA Member Airlines Passenger Traffic Increases 8.0% in March 2013

Miami, May 2, 2013 – The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that its member airlines carried 12.9 million passengers in March, up 8.0% from the previous year.

Traffic (RPK) grew 9.6% and capacity (ASK) increased 7.4%, bringing up the load factor to 74.8%, 1.5 percentage points higher than in March 2012.

The number of passengers carried year-to-date increased 5.9% versus the same period of the previous year, reaching 38.8 million passengers. During the aforementioned period, traffic (RPK) rose 7.4%, capacity (ASK) increased 5.4%, and the passenger load factor reached 76.4%, 1.4 percentage points higher than the previous year.

Freight ton kilometers declined 0.3% in March but increased 0.4% year-to-date.