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Latin America Traffic Remains Strong with 11.8% Growth in RPKs During First Seven Months of 2008

Written by thomas · Filed Under Commercial 

September 5, 2008

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Miami, September 4, 2008. – The Latin American Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that its member airlines overall Latin America traffic remained strong with a 9.6% growth in RPKs during July 2008 compared to 2007 and an 11.8% growth in RPKs during the first seven months of the year, as well as a 10.6% increase in capacity.

Traffic (measured in RPKs) and capacity increased 9.6% and 10.1% respectively. The higher growth in ASKs than in traffic brought down the load factor to 75.7%, 0.4 percentage points lower than in the previous year.

The number of passengers carried year-to-date (January ’08 – July ’08) increased 7.3% versus the same period the previous year, reaching 67.3 million passengers. During the aforementioned period, traffic (RPKs) increased 11.8%, capacity 10.6%, and passenger load factor reached 71.8%, 0.8 percentage points higher than the previous year.

Freight ton kilometers decreased 11.1% in July and 10.1% year-to-date. Cargo results were affected by reduction of capacity by Varig Log.

ALTA, www.alta.aero, was founded in 1980 as a non-profit airline association. Its member carriers have total revenue of more than $19 billion, operate more than 800 aircraft and employ more than 70,000 workers in Antigua, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Uruguay and in other nations the airlines serve.

Member Airlines: Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Aeropostal, AeroRepública, AeroSur, Aires, Air Jamaica, Aserca Airlines, Avianca, Bahamas Air, Caribbean Airlines, Cayman Airways, Cielos Airlines, Click, Copa Airlines, Cubana, GOL, Icaro, LAB, LAN Airlines, LAN Ecuador, LAN Peru, Liat, Mexicana, Nature Air, Pluna, Santa Barbara Airlines, Sky Airline, TACA, TACA Peru, TAM, TAM Mercosur, Tame, VARIG, VARIG LOG and Volaris. In addition, ALTA includes four Associate Airlines – Air Canada, Continental Airlines, Iberia and UPS.

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