Source: ACI-LAC Airports are natural engines of socio-economic and tourism development around the world, triggering net economic benefits for surrounding communities, providing air connectivity to shippers, travelers, and businesses, and ultimately enhancing the competitiveness of countries, regions, and cities. We believe that the aviation ecosystem in the Latin American and the Caribbean region has much to gain from a liberalized framework that provides airlines the freedom to operate international air services without being burdened by market access restrictions. To achieve this vision, it is necessary to deploy greater efforts towards the achievement of a fully liberalized framework and a competitive business environment that fosters greater air connectivity in the LAC region and provides airports the tools to further enhance current [...]

Source: US DOT The Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released U.S. airlines’ September 2023 fuel cost and consumption numbers indicating U.S. scheduled service airlines used 1.518 billion gallons of fuel, 9.2% less fuel than in August 2023 (1.672 billion gallons) and 2.8% more than in pre-pandemic September 2019. The cost per gallon of fuel in September 2023 ($3.14) was up 32 cents (11.4%) from August 2023 ($2.82) and up $1.19 (60.6%) from September 2019. Total September 2023 fuel expenditure ($4.77B) was up 1.1% from August 2023 ($4.72B) and up 65.1% from pre-pandemic September 2019. Year-over-year changes in fuel consumption and cost for September 2023 include 6.0% increase in domestic fuel consumption, 4.2% decrease in domestic fuel [...]

Source: Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares - ASA (Airports and Auxiliary Services) Mexico With the participation of officials from the Secretariats of Agriculture and Rural Development and Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation, as well as the National Committee for the Sustainable Development of Sugar Cane (CONADESUCA), the country's potential to develop sustainable aviation fuels aviation from sugarcane ethanol was addressed. As part of the work carried out by the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation, led by Airports and Auxiliary Services (ASA), to achieve the goal that the Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have set, of zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (Net Zero), a working meeting was held, coordinated with the Ministry of Agriculture and CONADESUCA, [...]