2020 Summer Aviation Forum: “Recovery and the Flightpath to New Aviation”   Source: Hermes The 2020 Summer Aviation Forum entitled “Recovery and the flightpath to new aviation” was organized by ATN – Air Transport News in association with Hermes – Air Transport Organisation, with Aegean Airlines being the Official Air Carrier Sponsor and easy power the Sponsor. It was held in Ekali, Greece on Friday 28 August.  The Forum is the new initiative of ATN and it is at the same time the first major air industry event, since the start of COVID-19 pandemic, with the physical presence of the participants. Major leaders of the industry participated and addressed the Forum, Salvatore Sciacchitano, President of the ICAO Council, Luis Felipe de Oliveira, [...]

On this occasion, we present the Traffic Report for May 2020, which, as we announced, keeps the same trend recorded in April, showing a 95.8% drop in passenger traffic compared to May 2019. This percentage shows that throughout the past May, fewer passengers traveled in the region in comparison with any given day in May 2019. About 1.5 million passengers were carried from, to and within Latin America and the Caribbean, representing a decrease of 33.5 million passengers over the previous year. As in April, during May only the Mexican, Chilean, and Brazilian markets were operational and these recorded decreases above 90% in passenger traffic. In the accumulated for January-May 2020, we already reached a 42.3% decrease, which accounts for [...]

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 [...]

Panama, April 14, 2020 – The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announces that Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 24.2 million passengers in February, up 4.5% – or 1,049,391 additional passengers – from the previous year. Traffic (RPK) increased 2.6% and capacity (ASK) increased 4.7%, bringing the load factor to 79%, 1.6 percentage points lower than in 2019. (see table 1). Traffic to/from Latin America & Caribbean Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 2.18 million passengers to and from Latin America and the Caribbean in February, down 1% from the previous year (see table 2). Traffic (RPK) decreased 0.8% and capacity (ASK) increased 1.2%, bringing the load factor to 78.5%. Domestic Traffic Latin America and Caribbean airlines [...]

The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced today that Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 27.7 million passengers in January, up 3.5% – or 928,053 additional passengers – from the previous year. Traffic (RPK) increased 0.1% and capacity (ASK) increased 1.2%, bringing the load factor to 79.6%, 0.9 percentage points lower than in 2019. (see table 1) Traffic to/from Latin America & Caribbean Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 2.6 million passengers to and from Latin America and the Caribbean in January, down 1.3% from the previous year (see table 2). Traffic (RPK) decreased 2.8% and capacity (ASK) decreased 3%, bringing the load factor to 78%. Domestic Traffic Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 21.1 million domestic [...]