ALTA: Traffic Report September 2017

Miami, November 9, 2017 – The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced today that Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 20.1 million passengers in September, up 4.4% - or 837,375 more passengers - from the previous year. Traffic (RPK) grew 5.7% and capacity (ASK) increased 4.5%, bringing up the load factor to 82.1%, 0.9 percentage points higher than in September 2016. (see table 1).