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We are experiencing the worst airline industry crisis in history, Today we will know what the drop in passenger traffic was in Latin America and the Caribe at 2020.
Days ago we learned the sad statistics that he left, al global air transport in the 2020, the advance of the pandemic reaching numbers comparable to 2003.
On this occasion, the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (HIGH) published the specific data for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, where passenger traffic fell in 59.2% throughout last year, carrying 177.3 million users or equivalent to 256.783.534 million fewer passengers compared to the year 2019.
The traffic (RPK) decreased 61.9% and the capacity (ASK) decreased 55.7%, bringing the load factor to 71.3%, 11.5 percentage points less than in 2019:
Of the total number of passengers transported, the 62% corresponded to domestic passengers, which represents an increase compared to 55% that domestic passengers represented of the total passengers in 2019 and evidence of the effect that the restrictions for international flights that are still maintained in several markets in the region and that generated decreases in the year. 62% in the extra-regional market and 72% in the intraregional.
In the meantime, in countries like Brazil, Mexico and Chile, where the flights did not stop, but restrictions were implemented, which accounted for most of the region's traffic last year. In Mexico they flew 48 million passengers, what represents the 27% of the entire region and was the country with the smallest overall drop in traffic with the 53% less and 6 points above the regional average.
Brazil also performed better than the regional average with a total of 49.5 million passengers and a reduction in 57% with respect to 2019. Mexico and Brazil together represented almost the 60% of the total number of passengers 2020. For his part, Chile had a total of 9.4 million passengers in 2020, a 64% less than in 2019.
Finally, the report details that:
The first quarter of 2021 It will be complex for the industry and the recovery that has been observed may slow down due to the second and third waves of infections., new variants of the virus, reimposition of travel restrictions and delays in vaccination campaigns in some of our countries. Nevertheless, The prospects for economic recovery are positive according to the International Monetary Fund, The population maintains the need to transport itself in a safe and efficient means and, if the skies remain open, We will be able to continue recovering this sector that generates millions of jobs and socioeconomic well-being.
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