Latin American air traffic reaches 98% of  pre-pandemic levels

Air passenger traffic in Latin America and the Caribbean continues to show signs of full recovery.

In February, 27.5 million passengers were transported in the region according to the monthly report of the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA). 98% of the passenger movement in the same month of 2019, that is, before the pandemic.

Domestic traffic in February grew 0.5%, international extra-LAC consolidated at 2.6% below 2019, and intra-regional traffic at 12.6% below its pre-pandemic levels. While on average all flights are 79.9% occupied.

In January of this year, 96% of the numbers for January 2019 had been reached, while in December 2022 it had managed to reach 100% of the same period in 2019.

Between January and February, the number of accumulated passengers who have traveled in the region reached 58.71 million, a figure still 2.9% below the two-month period of 2019 when 60.48 million passengers were registered.

COUNTRY FIGURES
By country, the ALTA report specifies that in February 2023, Colombia exceeded the levels of passengers it handled in the same month of 2019 by 27% and Mexico by 24%. In another positive development, Argentina practically exceeded its 2019 levels, and Brazil found itself at 89%.

Panama mobilized one million 347 thousand 326 passengers in February, exceeding by 6% the number of travelers it mobilized for February last year.