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ALTA reports January traffic better than expected-up 5.8%

Written by thomas · Filed Under Commercial 

March 12, 2009

thomas

The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) reports that its 39 member airlines carried 10.6 million passengers in January for an increase of 5.8%. While Alex de Gunten, ALTA’s executive director, said in the report, “The Latin American and Caribbean region experienced higher than expected growth in January 2009. While US and European traffic was weak, domestic and intra-Latin American passenger growth was strong.” Domestic traffic with 6.9 million passengers was up 8.6%, Intra-Latin American traffic with 2.1 million passengers was up 5.0%. North America, which was to be expected, was down 3.5% while Europe was up 0.8%. Asia-Pacific passengers were down 7.0%. Overall, RPKs were up 3.2% on ASM growth of 4% bringing the total load factor down by 0.5% to 73.1%.

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