Latin America Aviation Market

Monthly Latin American Airline Data Updates

Discover the Busiest Airports and Airlines in Latin America This Month | January 2025

How much airline capacity is there in Latin America? Find out with new data each month, detailing:

  • How many airlines and airports are operating in Latin America?
  • Which is the busiest airport in the continent?
  • What is the biggest airline in Latin America?
  • Which Latin American country has the most airline capacity?
  • Which regions are most visited?
  • And more.
Data is sourced from OAG's Schedules Analyser; a cutting-edge platform for airline schedule analysis. 

 

Airline Capacity in Latin America | January 2025

 

How much airline capacity is there in latin america?

  • Domestic capacity has grown by 5.1% vs last year, rising to 28.3 million seats in January 2025.
  • International capacity has expanded by 5.5%, with 16.8 million seats.
  • Overall capacity for Latin America has increased by 5.3% to 45.1 million seats.
  • Mainline carriers represent 62% of the market. However LCCs continue to grow faster, with a 7.5% increase year on year and account for 17.2 million seats.

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Country Aviation Markets in Latin America | January 2025

 

Which Latin American Country Has The Most Airline Capacity (Domestic + International)?

  • Brazil is the largest country market with 12.5m seats, growing by 6.3% vs January last year.
  • Capacity in Argentina and Colombia grew at the fastest rates of 13.4% and 11.7% respectively vs last year.
  • With the exception of the Dominican Republic, where capacity remained constant, capacity grew in all of the Top 10 countries.

Which Latin American Country Has THE Most DOMESTIC Airline Capacity?

 

  • Brazil is the largest domestic market with 10.8 million seats, increasing capacity by 4.8% - 500, 685 seats vs last January.
  • Domestic capacity increased at the fastest rate within the Top 10 markets in Venezuela, increasing by 19.5% vs last year, which represented 48,500 seats.
  • The domestic markets in Argentina and Colombia also showed strong growth, up 10.8% and 10% respectively vs last year.
  • Domestic capacity declined by 15.9% vs January 2024 in Bolivia, at 82,847 seats, continuing the contraction of domestic capacity in previous months.

Top Ten Busiest Airports by Departing Seats in Latin America | January 2025

 

Which is the Busiest Airport in Latin America?

  • Bogota remains the largest Latin American airport with 2.5m seats, an increase of 4.6% vs last January.
  • Strongest growth this month amongst the largest airports in the continent comes from Rio de Janeiro and Lima airports, where capacity is up by 13.1% and 10.1 respectively vs last year.
  • Both Mexican airports, Mexico City and Cancun, continued to reduce capacity by 2.6% and 9.7% respectively vs last year.
  • There are 541 airports this month with scheduled capacity, and 157 airlines operating in Latin America.
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Airline Capacity By Region | January 2025

Which Region of Latin America Has Most AIRLINE Capacity?

  • Capacity to/from Upper South America continues to grow at the fastest rate by 7.9% to 9.5 million seats.
  • Nevertheless the most seats were added vs last year in Lower South America, where 1.2million seats were added vs January 2024.
  • Capacity to/from the Caribbean is virtually unchanged from January 2024.
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Where do flights from Latin America go?

  • The largest increase this month, in terms of seats by region, is for capacity operating within Latin America. Capacity with the continent is increasing by 737,700 seats which continues the trend of recent months.
  • North America is the largest international destination region with 7.8m seats, remaining constant vs last year.
  • Percentage wise the highest growth rate in international capacity continues to be to/from Asia Pacific albeit on a very small basis, increasing by 74%, 23,400 seats.
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Top Ten Airlines in latin America (Departing seats, one-way) | January 2025

 

Which is the biggest airline in Latin America?

  • The largest increases in capacity this month are from Volaris, increasing by 9.1%, Copa Airlines increasing by 7.8% and Azul Airlines increasing by 7.5%. This represents a reverse of the previous month's decline for Volaris.
  • The LATAM Airline Group remains the largest airline with 8.8m seats. It grew by 6%, 497,800 seats vs last year.
  • The greatest reductions in capacity was Aerolineas Argentinas, by 5% vs January 2024.

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