ALTA Member Airlines Passenger Traffic Increases 2.7% in May
06-Jul-2012 The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that its member airlines carried 11.5 million passengers in May, up 2.7% from the previous year.
Traffic (RPK) grew 5.6% and capacity (ASK) increased 5.1%, bringing up the load factor to 73.7%, 0.4 percentage points higher than in May 2011.
The number of passengers carried year-to-date increased 5.2% versus the same period of the previous year, reaching 59.7 million passengers. During the aforementioned period, traffic (RPK) rose 7.2%, capacity (ASK) increased 7.7%, and the passenger load factor reached 75.1%, 0.3 percentage points lower than the previous year.
Freight ton kilometers increased 7.7% in May and 8.3% year-to-date.
Reporting airlines: Aerolíneas Argentinas (includes Austral), Aeromexico, Avianca, COPA Airlines, GOL, LAN Group, PLUNA, TACA Group, TAM, TAM Mercosur, and Volaris.
Glossary
RPK (Revenue Passenger Kilometers) number of passengers carried times the distance traveled | ASK (Available Seat Kilometers) number of seats available for sale times the distance traveled | PLF Passenger Load Factor, obtained by dividing the RPKs by the ASKs | FTK (Freight Ton Kilometers) number of tons of freight carried times the distance traveled