American Airlines: Latin America, Caribbean Traffic Continues Slide
By: Caribbean Journal Staff - March 8th, 2016
While American Airlines Group said it posted record February traffic and capacity in February, the carrier continued its decline in the wider Latin America and Caribbean region.
After a sluggish January in the region, the carrier reported a 2.2 percent reduction in revenue passenger miles to 2.454 billion, down from 2.51 billion in February 2015.
American Airlines did see a slight 0.8 percent increase in available seat miles to 3.31 billion.
The carrier’s Latin American-Caribbean decline continued as its overall international traffic rose by 3.2 percent in February to 4.6 billion.
American has been facing increasingly stiff competition from rapidly-expanding JetBlue in the Caribbean.
