Where Latin America’s new airline capacity is really going
Latin America will offer 46.9 million scheduled airline seats in September 2026, up 2.3% from a year earlier. The expansion, however, is increasingly uneven: domestic and intra-regional capacity continue to grow while the North American market has lost more than 400,000 seats. OAG data suggest that the next phase of regional aviation growth may be […]
How Far Can Efficiency Take Latin American Aviation Toward Net Zero?
Latin American airlines are already achieving measurable reductions in carbon intensity through newer aircraft, higher seat density and operational improvements. Cirium’s 2025 emissions data show that those gains can be substantial, while the ALTA/ICF pathway to 2050 also exposes their limit: efficiency can reduce the scale of aviation’s carbon challenge, but it cannot close the […]