American Airlines: Latin America, Caribbean Traffic Rebounding

By the Caribbean Journal staff

After months of flat to negative growth in the Latin America and Caribbean region, American Airlines Group is showing signs of a serious rebound.

The company reported 2.136 billion revenue passenger miles to the region in September, a 5.3 percent improvement over the same period in 2014.

The company also showed a 2.5 percent increase in available seat miles to Latin America and the Caribbean in the same period.

Load factor to Latin America and the Caribbean rose by 2.1 percent to 79.2 percent last month.

For the year, RPM to the region are down 3.8 percent, while ASM are down by 5.7 percent.

— CJ