ALTA Member Airlines Passenger Traffic Increases 9.0% in July

Miami, September 6, 2012 – The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that its member airlines carried 13.9 million passengers in July, up 9.0% from the previous year.

Traffic (RPK) grew 8.3% and capacity (ASK) increased 5.1%, bringing up the load factor to 81.8%, 2.4 percentage points higher than in July 2011.

The number of passengers carried year-to-date increased 6.4% versus the same period of the previous year, reaching 85.1 million passengers. During the aforementioned period, traffic (RPK) rose 8.0%, capacity (ASK) increased 7.4%, and the passenger load factor reached 76.3%, 0.4 percentage points higher than the previous year.

Freight ton kilometers increased 4.6% in July and 7.5% year-to-date.