Latin America Aviation Market

Monthly Latin American Airline Data Updates

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

 

How much airline capacity is there in latin america?

  • Overall capacity for Latin America has increased by 5.4% to 42.3 million seats in April 2025.
  • Domestic seats, which represent 65% of capacity, have grown by 5% vs last year. It has increased to 27.3 million seats in April 2025.
  • International capacity grew at a faster rate of 6.1% to 15 million seats.
  • Mainline carriers represent 61% of the market. However LCCs continue to grow faster, with a 11.1% increase year on year and account for 16.7 million seats.

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Country Aviation Markets in Latin America | April 2025

 

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

  • The top ten country markets by seats remains unchanged from March 2025.
  • Brazil is the largest country market with 11.5m seats, growing by 5.5% vs April last year.
  • Capacity in Argentina grew at the fastest rates of 19.8%, followed by Panama where it grew by 9.4% vs last year.
  • Capacity in Ecuador and Chile declined by 0.5% and 0.2% respectively.

Which Latin American Country Has THE Most DOMESTIC Airline Capacity?

 

  • Brazil is the largest domestic market with 10.2 million seats, increasing capacity by 4.2% (412,400) seats vs last April.
  • Domestic capacity grew fastest in Argentina by 20.5% (297,700 more seats), followed by Venezuela by 17% (41,500 more seats) vs April 2024.
  • Domestic capacity continued to decline sharply in Bolivia by 20.1% vs last year.

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

 

Which is the Busiest Airport in Latin America?

  • Bogota remains the largest Latin American airport with 2.3m seats, up 1.2% vs last year.
  • Strongest growth within the top ten largest airports in the continent comes again from Buenos Aires airport, which grew by 38.1% vs April 2024. This represents an increase of 262,000 seats.
  • Mexico's Guadalajara airport grew by 11.5% again this month vs last year.
  • Capacity at Cancun continued to reduce, declining by 1.2% vs April 2024.

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Airline Capacity By Region | April 2025

Which Region of Latin America Has Most AIRLINE Capacity?

  • Capacity to/from Lower South America and to/from Central America has increased by 6.7% and 7.5% vs last year.  This represents an additional 1 million and 876,400 seats respectively compared with last year.
  • Capacity to/from the Caribbean grew again this month by 2.3%, having remained more or less constant in recent months.

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Where do flights from Latin America go?

  • The largest increase this month in terms of seats by region continues to be for capacity operating within Latin America, increasing by 677,800 seats, an increase of 12% vs April 2024.
  • North America is the largest international destination region with 7m seats and a small increase of 2% in capacity vs last year.
  • Percentage wise the largest growth in international capacity continues to be to/from Asia Pacific, increasing by 74% (20,900 more seats) vs April 2024.

Top Ten Airlines in latin America (Departing seats, one-way) | April 2025

 

Which is the biggest airline in Latin America?

  • The largest increases in capacity this month again come from the Mexican carriers, Volaris and Vivaaerobus, increasing by 16.2% and 17.1% respectively vs April 2024.
  • The LATAM Airline Group remains the largest airline with 8.2m seats.
  • The AZUL/GOL proposed merger and Chapter 11 filing of the latter in the US have not yet had a significant impact on their networks.

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