During November 2010, LAN Airlines and its
subsidiaries’ system passenger traffic increased 11.2% as capacity
rose 8.5%.
As a result, the company’s load factor for the
month increased 2 points to 81.5%. International passenger traffic
accounted for approximately 70% of total passenger traffic.
Domestic passenger traffic in Chile, Argentina, Peru
and Ecuador rose 7.4% as capacity increased 7.1%. As a
consequence, the domestic load factor for the month increased 0.2
points to 79.6%.
International passenger traffic
grew 12.9%, while capacity increased 9.2%. Accordingly, the
international passenger load factor for the month increased 2.7
points to 82.4%. During November, international capacity expansion
was mainly driven by an increase in operations on routes to Europe
and to the United States, as well as certain regional routes.
During November, cargo traffic increased 9.6%. This
increase was mainly due to the recovery and growth of the import
markets to Latin America, driven by Brazil, and the increase in
operations to Europe with the Boeing 777 freighter fleet. In addition,
in June 2010 LAN Cargo launched domestic cargo operations in
Brazil to Recife and Fortaleza through its affiliate ABSA. In-line
with higher demand, capacity grew 11.9%. As a result, the cargo
load factor decreased 1.6 point to 72.5%.
During
November, 83.8% of the company’s total flights left on time based
on a fifteen-minute standard (all departures leaving within fifteen minutes of the scheduled departure time are considered as
“on-time”). This represented a decrease of 4.2 points compared to November 2009.
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