Latin America Aviation Market

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.

In Latin America this month there are 140 airlines with scheduled capacity and 511 airports

How much airline capacity is there in latin america?

• Overall capacity for Latin America has increased by 1.3% to 45.8 million seats in September 2025.
• International capacity grew at a faster rate than domestic capacity this month by 2.6% to 19.1 million seats - 42% of capacity.
• Mainline carriers represent 63% of the market and grew by 1.1% vs September 2024. However, LCCs continue to grow at a slightly faster rate, with a 1.6% increase year on year, now making up 17.1 million seats.
  

*As of July 2025, international capacity is reported on a two-way basis (previously one-way departing).

Which is the Busiest Airport in Latin America?

• Sao Paulo Guarulhos Intl Airport grew by 8.8% vs last year and remains the busiest airport in the region with 2.3m seats.
• Capacity at Bogota, Colombia, continued to reduce by 2.9% vs last year to 2.25m seats. It remains the second busiest airport in Latin America.
• Strongest growth within the Top 10 largest airports in Latin America came again from Buenos Aires Airport, which grew by 23.7% vs September 2024. This represents an increase of 173,500 seats.
• Rio de Janeiro increased capacity by 15.8%, adding 123,700 seats.
  
  
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Which is the biggest airline in Latin America?

• The LATAM Airline Group remains the largest airline with 8.7m seats and has increased capacity this month by 7.5% (607,500 additional seats).
• Jetsmart made the largest percentage increase in capacity of 22.5% (271,400 additional seats), followed by GOL Linhas Aereas with a 9.4% increase (303,800 additional seats).
• Aeromexico and Azul Airlines reduced capacity by 5.7% and 5.5% respectively. Aerolineas Argentinas also reduced capacity by 2.6%.