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Azul EVP marketing & people Jason Ward, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Latin America & Caribbean, stated (10-Sep-2026) "We have over 800 daily departures and we fly to over 120 cities in Brazil. We also have flights to the US and to Europe". Mr Ward continued: "We focus very much on having a great operation and on-time performance in Brazil, we have an advantage there". He noted: "If your operation is not flowing well, it doesn't matter how nice you are, how cool the tools are and all that... your core business has to be the number one priority". Mr Ward added: "Each day we look at how the fleet launch was and what are the indicators that show what lines of flying are going to be the most difficult and how can we get ahead of that". [more - CAPA TV]

Airlines Association of Panama president Carlos Conde, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Latin America & Caribbean, stated (10-Sep-2026) "I believe that the big change is in maybe two, three or five years. It's not the people looking for a flight, it's their AI agent looking for a flight". Mr Conde continued: "Airlines need to feed that and to understand that to get more reliable and profitable", noting: "It's a game changer". He concluded: "I think that people more commonly will use AI, you know, to make decisions, to plan a trip, to book a flight", adding: "The fundamentals of the business is the same, but the thing that we're going to change is how to use the AI to improve your decisions". [more - CAPA TV]

ALTA CEO Peter Cerda, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Latin America & Caribbean, stated (10-Sep-2026) the air travel sector is "still treated as a cash cow industry" by some governments in Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr Cerda continued: "We're still treated as if we were an industry of the rich instead of considering air transportation as really a public mode of movement in our region, because of the lack of other modes of transportation, [such as] high speed rail, good highway systems...". He called on governments in the region to follow the example set by Panama and recognise the necessity of aviation, stating: "You need it. You need it socially. You need it economically". [more - CAPA TV]

BermudAir chief commercial officer (CCO) John Pepper, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Latin America & Caribbean, stated (10-Sep-2026) "AI is only as good as the context that you give it. And so you've got to have a data portfolio that backs that up". Mr Pepper continued: "The learning curve and the speed at which these models are pacing and producing and being able to execute content is incredible". He stated: "It's not necessarily in the AI companies' best interest, at least with current compute, to go to every individual airline's website to do that transaction", noting: "From an inference standpoint and from a cost standpoint, it's better for them to go to Skyscanner or Google Flights or another aggregator to do that transaction because you can do one search and get those results back and process that in an easier fashion". Mr Pepper added: "And so that has the potential to undo a lot of what's been done over the last 20 years". [more - CAPA TV]

Panama's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) DG Rafael Bárcenas, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Latin America & Caribbean, stated (10-Sep-2026) greater liberalisation and harmonisation of aviation regulations, charges and processes for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean "could bring great benefit to the region, because right now there's a lot of disparity between everything", adding: "That's something that needs to be addressed". Mr Bárcenas said: "We definitely have to work on the harmonisation of the rulebooks", as the issue of regulatory discrepancies between countries "is making the job of the aviation industry very difficult", reporting: "I can tell you examples of countries where importing a part to fix an airplane is almost impossible or takes a month and a half". He continued: "We are chasing fees all around. We have a neighbouring country that charges 40% more, then you have somebody else that charges a lot less", concluding: "The perfect scenario would be that all our airspaces would be based on the same fees". [more - CAPA TV]

BermudAir CEO Adam Scott, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Latin America & Caribbean, stated (11-Sep-2026) Bermuda is a "unique market", noting: "40% of the traffic is outbound, but it has a really nice split between high-end leisure and business travellers". Mr Scott continued: "To get to Anguilla now, we offer a service that takes literally less than half the time of our competitor", adding: "I think our markets are very premium markets, and the product that we have, the product that we've developed, is very well received". He stated the carrier's passengers are "looking for premium service" and are "ready and willing to pay a little extra for more of a premium experience". Mr Scott noted the carrier is looking for "right-sized aircraft" for the markets it serves to be able to "provide the right frequencies", adding: "I'm very confident about where the future is going to take us". [more - CAPA TV]