LATAM issues June traffic reports

LATAM Airlines Group has stated its total passenger traffic increased 1.1% in June year-on-year, while its overall load factor rose to 81.9%. The results follow a cost-cutting strategy involving increasing efficiency by reducing capacity on Brazilian routes. Load factor in LATAM’s Brazilian operations fell to 80.8%, and increased to 76.1% at the airline’s other operations in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Brazilian domestic passenger traffic fell 5.2%, while domestic passenger traffic in the Spanish-speaking nations rose 1.1%.