ALTA Member Airlines Passenger Traffic Increases 5.6% in September
The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that its member airlines carried 11.5 million passengers in September, up 5.6% from the previous year.
Traffic (RPK) grew 8.1% and capacity (ASK) increased 10.9%, bringing down the load factor to 74.3%, 74.3%, 1.9 percentage points lower than in September 2010.
The number of passengers carried year-to-date increased 3.6% versus the same period the previous year, reaching 103.4 million passengers. During the aforementioned period, traffic (RPK) rose 4.9%, capacity (ASK) increased 1.1%, and the passenger load factor reached 75.4%, 2.8 percentage points higher than the previous year.
Freight ton kilometers increased 5.4% in September and 4.3% year to date.
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Source: ALTA
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