Miami, December 8, 2017 – The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced today that Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 20.9 million passengers in October, up 3.9% - or 790,546 more passengers - from the previous year. Traffic (RPK) grew 8% and capacity (ASK) increased 4.3%, bringing up the load factor to 85.8%, 3 percentage points higher than in October 2016. (see table 1).