Latin America Aviation Market

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

Here are some of the top statistics from Latin America's aviation market this month:

• Busiest Airport: Bogata
• Largest airline: LATAM
• Latin American country with most global airline capacity: Brazil
• Largest regional market: Lower South America
  

In Latin America this month there are 155 airlines with scheduled capacity and 537 airports

How much airline capacity is there in latin america?

• Overall capacity for Latin America has increased by 3.8% to 56.9 million seats in January 2026.
• Domestic capacity grew by 3.7%, whilst international capacity grew by 3.9 % vs last year.
• Mainline carriers represent 65% of the market and grew by 4.3% vs January 2025, whilst LCCs grew by 3% year on year and account for 20.2 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?

• Bogota remains the busiest airport in the region with 2.6m seats.
• Rio de Janeiro saw the strongest growth of those in the Top 10 with 18.9% capacity increase versus January 2026, followed by Panama with a 13% increase.
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Which is the biggest airline in Latin America?

• The LATAM Airline Group remains the largest airline in the continent with 9.4m seats, and increased capacity this month by 6.6% (587,700 additional seats).
• JetSMART again recorded the largest percentage increase in capacity this month, up 22.8% (an additional 315,900 seats), followed by Copa Airlines and VivaAerobus with increases of 13.7% and 13.2% respectively.
• Azul Airlines, by contrast, reduced capacity by 5.9% this month, with 208,600 fewer seats than in January 2025.