USA: American Airlines Reports Improvement in Latin America, Caribbean

After months of decline, American Airlines Group reported positive growth in revenue passenger miles to Latin America and the Caribbean last month.

The carrier reported 2.773 billion revenue passenger miles, up 0.2 percent from August 2014.

The carrier’s revenue passenger miles to the region remain down 4.7 percent year over year, however.

Available seat miles to the region fell by 4.4 percent last month, and is down 6.4 percent for the year.

Load factor rose, however, improving by 3.8 percent to 84 percent last month.