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American Airlines: Latin America, Caribbean Traffic Decline Continues

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - April 23, 2017

American Airlines Group is continuing to show a traffic decline in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The carrier reported 2.574 billion revenue passenger miles in March, a 4.8 percent decline compared to the same month in 2016.

Available seat miles to the region saw a 2.5 percent reduction to 3.43 billion, while load factor declined by 1.9 percentage points to 75.1 percent last month.

For the year to date, revenue passenger miles to Latin America and the Caribbean have declined by 7 percent compared to the first quarter of 2016, while available seat miles saw a 6.7 percent decline in the first quarter.

— Caribbean Journal Staff

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