LATAM Group presented its passenger operations projection for July, revealing that the subsidiary in Brazil recovered 88% of its flights compared to the same period in 2019. This places it, in available seat-kilometers/ASK, as the subsidiary with the second-best level of recovery, surpassed only by Colombia.
The company presents a real growth of 6% in domestic supply compared to the same period of 2019 with 627 daily flights on average. During the first half of 2022 (January-June), the company transported 12,685,622 passengers, representing a recovery of 89.14% compared to the same months of 2019, according to ANAC Brazil.
LATAM Brazil launched thirteen domestic routes in July, including 5 new destinations to its network: Monte Claros (MOC) and Juiz de Fora (IZA), Minas Gerais; Cascavel (CAC), Paraná; Caxias do Sul (CXJ), Rio Grande do Sul; and Presidente Prudente (PPB), São Paulo; all from São Paulo/Guarulhos (GRU).
With this, LATAM completes a total of fifty-six domestic destinations in Brazil. It also recovered eight other links in other areas of the country:
- Brasilia (BSB) – Palmas (PMW), Tocantins. New link inaugurated in October 2021, briefly suspended between April and June.
- Brasília (BSB) – Rio Branco (RBR), Acre. Route recovered, suspended since March 2020.
- Porto Alegre (POA) – Curitiba (CWB). Route recovered, suspended since March 2020.
- Manaus (MAO) – Fortaleza (FOR). Route recovered, suspended briefly between April and June.
- Manaus (MAO) – Porto Velho (PVH), Rondônia. New link inaugurated in October 2021, suspended briefly between April and June.
- Fortaleza (FOR) – Maceió (MCZ). New link inaugurated in October 2021, suspended briefly between April and June.
- Fortaleza (FOR) – Vitoria (VIX), Espirito Santo. Route recovered, suspended since March 2020.
- Belo Horizonte (CNF) – Porto Seguro (BPS), Bahia. Route recovered, suspended briefly between April and June.
International Market
In Brazil recovered 68% of the international offer during July, 33% more than last month.
LATAM recovered two routes from the Brazilian interior: Porto Alegre (POA) – Lima (LIM), Peru; and Fortaleza (FOR) – Miami (MIA), United States. It also added a seasonal charter connection to San Carlos de Bariloche (BRC), Argentina, which was previously a regular route in the winter season.
Although it was the new flight to Rome/Fiumicino (FCO), Italy, that garnered much of the attention after being suspended in 2019, becoming the only Latin American carrier to offer flights to two Italian destinations, since it already operated to Milan/Malpensa (MXP).
Despite the new routes, the company has more than a dozen suspended connections with no official restart date:
- São Paulo/Guarulhos (GRU) to Cordoba (COR), Argentina; Tel Aviv (TLV), Israel; Johannesburg (JNB), South Africa; and Mount Pleaseant (MPN), Falkland Islands.
- Brasilia (BSB) to Lima (LIM), Peru, and Santiago (SCL), Chile.
- Porto Alegre (POA) to Santiago (SCL), Chile.
- Rio de Janeiro/Galeao (GIG) to Montevideo (MVD), Uruguay.
- Miami (MIA), USA to Belém (BEL), Salvador (SSA) and Recife (REC).
- Buenos Aires (AEP/EZE), Argentina to Salvador (SSA) and Recife (REC).
However, some links have a restart date for October and November:
- Curitiba (CWB) to Santiago (SCL), Chile, beginning November 1.
- Florianopolis (FLN) to Santiago (SCL), Chile, as of October 30.
- Foz do Iguacu (IGU) to Lima (LIM), Peru, beginning Oct. 30.
- Rio de Janeiro/Galeao (GIG) to Buenos Aires/Ezeiza (EZE), beginning Oct. 30.
- São Paulo/Guarulhos (GRU) to Boston (BOS), United States, beginning Oct. 30.
- São Paulo/Guarulhos (GRU) to Punta del Este (PDP), Uruguay, starting October 30.
As is the case in most countries, the international market in Brazil has a slower recovery. LATAM Brazil recovered 21.28% of passengers on flights abroad by moving 1,416,315 travelers during this first semester (January-June), when in the same period of 2019 it had transported 6,653,850 people.
