American Airlines: Latin America, Caribbean Struggles Continue

By: - October 16th, 2016
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American Airlines Group is showing a continued decline in traffic to Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the company’s latest monthly report.

American Airlines saw an 8.1 percent decline in traffic to the region last month, with a total of 1.962 billion revenue passenger miles.

The company also reported a 9.6 percent reduction in available seat miles, with 2.44 billion, while load factor increased by 1.3 percentage points to 80.5 percent.

Total revenue passenger miles for the company were 17.8 billion, a 1.7 percent decline from September 2015.

American Airlines said it expected its third quarter total revenue per available seat mile to decline by approximately 2 to 3 percent year over year.

— Caribbean Journal Staff

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