Latin American and Caribbean airlines transported 6.6% more passengers

Latin American and Caribbean airlines transported 6.6% more passengers

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The airlines of Latin America and the Caribbean transported 6.6% more passengers in the month of August 2018 compared to the same period of 2017.

In a lengthy report from HIGH, the statistical data of passengers transported by the airlines of both regions was known, which together added more than 23 million passengers.

The traffic (RPK) grew up 7.4% and the capacity (ASK) increased a 9.6%, with which the load factor reached 81.2%, equivalent to 1.6 percentage points less than in August 2017.

August set a record so far this year, being the month with the highest percentage growth (6.6%) and absolute (more of 1.43 million additional passengers). Near to 50% of absolute growth in passenger traffic occurred in the region's two largest domestic markets: Mexico and Brazil. percentage, highlighted Argentina, Chile and Peru, with double-digit growth mostly due to the positive impact of low-cost airlines.

El mercado internacional extra–Latinoamérica creció un 13.8%, highlighting the growth towards North America, particularly from Mexico and Brazil. In the case of Brazil, the 3 Brazilian airlines that operate to the US increased by more than 30% your flights compared to 2017. LATAM operated 78 additional flights, Blue 72 additional flights and Avianca Brazil 56 additional flights. In this way, the benefits of the open skies treaty between the 2 countries that entered into force in May of this year. By contrast, Traffic to the US from Argentina showed a drop of more than 5%, probably product of the strong devaluation that Argentina is going through.

Latin American and Caribbean airlines transported 2.5 millones de pasajeros desde y hacia la región en agosto, which represents an increase in 13.8% with respect to 2017 (ver tabla 2). The traffic (RPK) grew up 11% and the capacity (ASK) grew up 13.8%, with which the load factor reached 83.3%.

Tráfico desde/hacia Latinoamérica y Caribe

En el mercado internacional intra-Latinoamérica, se destaca el crecimiento en el tráfico entre Brasil-Chile, with growth greater than 15% gracias al aumento de frecuencias por parte de Avianca Brasil en la ruta Santiago-Sao Paulo y LATAM en las rutas Santiago-Sao Paulo y Santiago-Rio de Janeiro. Too, destacan el crecimiento en los mercados Argentina-Brasil gracias a las nuevas rutas a Córdoba y Rosario desde Recife y Porto Alegre que inició Azul en el año en curso.

El tráfico hacia África continúa mostrando gran dinamismo gracias al aumento de frecuencias a Johannesburgo por parte de LATAM que ya acredita un crecimiento acumulado del 60% during the 2018. El mercado hacia Europa mostró un crecimiento del 11.1% durante agosto, destacándose el alto factor de ocupación en este mercado con el 87.3%, uno de los más altos del 2018.

El informe se construye a partir de los datos de tráfico de las siguientes aerolíneas:

Argentinian airlines (incluye Austral), Aeromar, Aeromexico, Aeromexico Connect, Avianca Holdings, Avianca Brazil, Azul Airlines, Copa Airlines, Copa Airlines Colombia, Flybonds, Interjet, Jet smart, LATAM Airlines. Grupos Sky Airline, VivaAerobus, VivaColombia y Volaris.

Glosario aeronáutico

RPK

(Revenue Passenger Kilometers): es la cantidad de pasajeros pagos transportados multiplicado por la distancia recorrida

ASK

(Available Seat Kilometers) cantidad de asientos disponibles para la venta multiplicado por la distancia recorrida | PLF factor de ocupación. se obtiene dividiendo los RPK por los ASK |

FTK

(Freight Tonne Kilometers) cantidad de toneladas de carga transportadas multiplicada por la distancia recorrida.

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