STATS: Intra South American Air Capacity

In our final edition of The HUB for 2011 we bring you some statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in individual domestic markets, regional capacity within continents and traffic between particular parts of the world. All the data shows weekly flight capacity for the week commencing January 14, 2012.

AIRLINES

AIR TRAFFIC IN THE SOUTH AMERICAN MARKET (non-stop weekly flights)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

1

Gol Transportes Aereos

6,306

1,042,737

24.6 %

2

TAM Airlines

6,009

846,203

20.0 %

3

LAN Airlines

4,045

548,111

12.9 %

4

Avianca

2,443

295,239

7.0 %

5

Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras

2,336

234,924

5.5 %

6

TRIP Linhas Aéreas

2,688

175,442

4.1 %

7

Aerolineas Argentinas

1,523

155,682

3.7 %

8

WebJet Linhas Aéreas

1,085

146,475

3.5 %

9

Oceanair

842

91,872

2.2 %

10

Sky Airline Chile

505

65,364

1.5 %

(Others)

7,245

642,069

15.1 %

TOTAL

35,027

4,244,118

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AIRPORTS

AIR TRAFFIC IN THE SOUTH AMERICAN MARKET (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

1

Sao Paulo Guarulhos

2,165

313,205

7.4 %

2

Sao Paulo Congonhas

1,585

235,673

5.6 %

3

Brasilia Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek

1,563

223,132

5.3 %

4

Bogota El Nuevo Dorado International

1,927

221,574

5.2 %

5

Rio de Janeiro Galeão Antonio Carlos Jobim International

1,266

193,055

4.5 %

6

Santiago Arturo Merino Benitez

988

145,027

3.4 %

7

Belo Horizonte Tancredo Neves

1,094

141,167

3.3 %

8

Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont

1,069

136,010

3.2 %

9

Salvador Luis Eduardo Magalhaes

922

127,522

3.0 %

10

Buenos Aires Jorge Newbery

1,084

119,762

2.8 %

(Others)

21,364

2,387,991

56.3 %

TOTAL

35,027

4,244,118

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Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…