Caribbean Airlines introduces cargo charter services to support supply chains within the  Caribbean region.   The airline launched this new option to meet the growing demand for cargo uplift to a number of Caribbean islands, which are now experiencing significantly reduced cargo capacity with the closure of borders to passenger aircraft, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.   Caribbean Airlines Cargo will utilize the airline’s fleet of Boeing 737-800 and ATR-72 aircraft, offering up to 18,000 pounds for the movement of essential goods to and from destinations, including but not limited to, Antigua, Barbados, Curacao, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Nassau, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.   Charter flights will be subject to the regulatory approvals of [...]

Aerolíneas Argentinas announced 2 new exceptional flights from Cancun and Punta Cana, scheduled for April 15 and April 16, respectively. Both flights will be operated with Airbus 330–200 aircraft, which implies that a total of 530 seats will be available for Argentine people who are still stranded abroad. It is important to highlight that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship is the authority that defines the lists of passengers based upon the priorities established by health protocols. Said modality applies to exceptional flights. That is why passengers have been asked to make their requests through the consular offices, since the Company will not issue bookings or commercialize the flight through its sales channels. Having confirmed these new flights, so [...]

Volaris* (NYSE: VLRS and BMV: VOLAR), the ultra-low-cost airline serving Mexico, the United States and Central America, reported March2020 preliminary traffic results. In March 2020, capacity measured by ASMs (Available Seat Miles) decreased by 5.6% vs the same period of last year, while demand measured by RPMs (Revenue Passenger Miles) decreased 10.3% year over year.  Volaris transported a total of 1.6 million passengers during the month of March, a decrease of 12.8% year over year. Network-wide load factor for March 2020 was 82.3%, a decrease of 4.3 pp versus last year. These decreases were a result of the decline in demand related to the virus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, which affected Volaris at the end of March. On March 24, 2020 the [...]

Viva Aerobus, Mexico´s ultra-low-cost carrier, reports its monthly passenger figures corresponding to March 2020. The airline registered nearly 850 thousand passengers this month with a load factor of 80.5%. This represented an increase of 1% in the number of customers compared to March 2019 and a decrease in the load factor of 10.4 percentage points. This decrease was caused by the drop in de-mand resulting from the health emergency due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the world and due to the growth in our country. Regarding the accumulated total for the year (January-March 2020), Viva Aerobus reported 2.8 million passengers and an average load factor of 84.7%. These results, compared to the accumulated January - March 2019, implied an increase [...]