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ALTA Member Airlines Passengers Up 2.7% in August

Written by thomas · Filed Under Commercial 

October 5, 2009

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Miami, October 5, 2009 – The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that its member airlines carried 10.7 million passengers in August, up 2.7% from last year.

Traffic (measured in RPKs) grew 2.6% and capacity increased 5.2%. The load factor dropped to 70.6%, 1.8 percentage points lower than in the previous year.

The number of passengers carried year-to-date (January ’09 – August ’09) dropped 0.4% versus the same period of the previous year, reaching 79.9 million passengers. During the aforementioned period, traffic (RPKs) fell 0.6%, capacity increased 3.5%, and passenger load factor reached 69.1%, 2.8 percentage points lower than the previous year.

Freight ton kilometers increased 1.3% in August but fell 13.8% year-to-date.

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