ALTA Member Airlines Passenger Traffic Increased 3.8% in May 2015
Version en Castellano ALTA Member Airlines Passenger Traffic Increased 3.8% in May 2015 Miami, July 8, 2015 The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that its member airlines carried 15.0 million passengers in May, up 3.8% -or 549,000 additional passengers- from the previous year. Traffic (RPK) grew 5.5% and capacity (ASK) increased 4.7%, bringing up the load factor to 79.1%, 0.6 percentage points higher than in May 2014. Year-to-date, the number of passengers carried from January to May increased 5.5% versus the same period of the previous year, reaching 76.9 million passengers, or 4.0 million more passengers vs. January-May 2014. During the aforementioned period, traffic (RPK) rose 6.1%, capacity (ASK) increased 5.3%, and the passenger load factor reached 79.3%, 0.6 percentage points higher than the previous year. Freight ton kilometers declined 11.3% in May and 8.2% year to date. * International and domestic flights Reporting airlines: Aerolíneas Argentinas (includes Austral), Aeromar, AeroMéxico, AeroMéxico Connect, Avianca, Copa Airlines, Copa Airlines Colombia, GOL, InselAir, LATAM Airlines Group, 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 About ALTA ALTA (Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association) is a private, non-profit organization, whose member airlines represent more than 90 percent of the region's commercial air traffic.
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