He wears it OAG.com presents its first report and stilláanalysis of the airline market first quarter toéLatin American prisonerérica 2018, where growth stands out (al fin) from Brazil, Viva Air Group, the tráfic that China generates and the airports mápunctual s of the regionón.
Brazil recovers but the Caribbean continues to decline
In the úlast 12 months the aerosolsíneas operated 418.8m seats in Latin Americaérica, 12.6m máI know that the 12 previous months. This translates into a growth of 3.1%.
South Sudanérica experimentó its greatest growth of úlast toños, with a 10% más capacity this April than last. To the kingsón isá stimulated by recoveryón from Brazil, where the aerosolsíneas añgoodbye 670.000 seats in april, and alsoén by Argentina and Chile, with a growth of 17% and 22% respectively.
The decline in capacity in the Caribbean has slowed with the start of the summer season, but with a 7% less this April compared to lastñor past due to continued reductionón capacity in Cuba, which has already reduced 115.500 of seats, and recoveryón aún ongoing areas of the Caribbean hit by the devastating hurricanes of the yearñor past (the places with más foundóThey are Puerto Rico, Islas Vírgenes and Isla de San Martín).
The Viva Group increasinglyás strong in Peruú
With the great ambitionón to provide low-cost transportation in Latin Americaérica, the live group (founded by Irelandia Aviation, who tooén establishedó Ryanair and other successful global LLC brands) went inó in Colombia and Peruú in the past toñO.
In Perú, the group (a través of Viva Perú and Viva Colombia, of your property) has managed to secure a 8% of capacity since its launch in early 2017. For now, The Group operates in the domestic marketéPeruvian stico, attending 5 of the main routes of Peruú from Lima to Cusco, Arequipa, Piura, Tarapoto and Iquitos.
All these routes are alreadyán serviced by other aerolílines but it is interesting to see that the new entrant does not seem worried about the competitionón.
According to CAPA, The Viva Group currently has 13 A320 aircraft in its fleet, with a request from others 50, which means that he has big plans for Latin Americaérica.
What China means for Sudanérica
Many parts of the world areán feeling the impact of the surge of Chinese outbound tourism; However, ¿thaté effect isá taking in transportationéSouth American prisoner, area located so far from China?
At úlast quarter of 2017 was 118.000 reservations between China and Sudanérica, an increase of 66% with respect toñprevious one.
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Perú and Venezuela are the 5 paímain South American countries of origin and destination, and justify the 83% of all the troubleáshipping to and from China, being Brazil – China market más big and creating for sí only the 37% of the tráfico.
Reserves in Brazil-China grew by 13% between úlast quarter of 2016 and the one of 2017. The Argentina-China route grewó a 10% and for Chile – China the increase has been 11%.
Since it is almost impossible to have a non-stop service due to the great distance, almost all passengers make connections. ÁAmsterdam and Paris are the favorite connection pointsón, followed by Dubái, Dallas/Ft.Worth y Doha.
OTP – On Time Performance
The average performanceñor on punctuality for 10 main airports in Latin Americaérich was from 82.8% in march 2018, slightly below the March average 2017, which was from 83.5%.
Panama Cityá (PTY) has the OTP más alto, with a 94% of flights that operate on time. The City of México (MEX) has the second OTP más tall with a 90%, y experimentó a considerable improvement last March, where he 82% of operational flightsó punctually.
Más of half of the 10 Major airports recorded above-average OTP, which is admirable considering that some of these airports areán experiencing strong growth; for example Cancún, with a 12% más of flights this March compared to lastñor past he managedó to improve your OTP 82% a 85%, and Santiago (SCL) with 20% más of experimental flightsó a caífrom del 86% al 83%.
