Panama, May 13, 2020 – The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announces that airlines operating the Latin America and Caribbean market carried 31.1 million passengers in March, down 17.5% – or 6,600,845 less passengers – from the previous year. Traffic (RPK) decreased 22.9% and capacity (ASK) decreased 11.7%, bringing the load factor to 71.9%, 10.4 percentage points lower than in 2019. (see table 1).
Traffic to/from Latin America & Caribbean
10.4 million passengers travelled to and from Latin America and the Caribbean in March, a decrease of 23.6% from the previous year (see table 2). Traffic (RPK) decreased 26% and capacity (ASK) declined 13.6%, bringing the load factor to 70.8%.
Domestic Traffic
Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 17.4 million domestic passengers in March, down 11.1% from the previous year. Traffic (RPK) decreased 9.9% and capacity (ASK) decreased 3.4%, bringing the load factor to 76.2%.
International Traffic
Airlines operating in Latin America and Caribbean carried 13.7 million international passengers in March, of which 3.3 million were international passengers within the region and 10.4 million outside the region.
* Most important segments in number of passengers