São Paulo, September 11, 2017 - Azul S.A., "Azul", (B3: AZUL4, NYSE: AZUL), the largest airline in Brazil by number of destinations and departures, announces today its preliminary traffic results for August 2017.
Passenger traffic (RPKs) increased 15.5% compared to August 2016 on a capacity increase (ASKs) of 13.1%. As a result, load factor was 81.6%, 1.7 percentage points higher than in the same period last year.
Year-to-date load factor increased 2.4 percentage points over last year, reaching 81.7%. Domestic load factor was 79.8% and international was 90.3%.