Latin America Aviation Market

How much airline capacity is there in Latin America? Find out with new data each month.

Here are some of the top statistics from Latin America's aviation market this month:

• Busiest Airport: Bogata
• Largest airline: LATAM
• Latin American country with most global airline capacity: Brazil
• Largest regional market: Lower South America
  

In Latin America this month there are 153 airlines with scheduled capacity and 537 airports

How much airline capacity is there in latin america?

• Overall capacity for Latin America has increased by 3.8% to 51.1 million seats in November 2025.
• International and domestic capacity grew at a similar rate this month of 3.8% and 3.7% respectively vs last year.
• Mainline carriers represent 64% of the market and grew by 3.7% vs November 2024, whilst LCCs grew by 3.9% year on year and account for 18.4 million seats.
  

*As of July 2025, international capacity is reported on a two-way basis (previously one-way departing).

Which is the Busiest Airport in Latin America?

• Bogota is the busiest airport in the region with 2.5m seats. This reflects Colombia's steady growth as the third-largest market in Latin America, as discussed in OAG's Colombia-focused webinar in October.
• Among the Top 10 largest airports in Latin America, Rio de Janeiro saw the highest growth, increasing by 19.8% compared to November 2024.
  
  
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Which is the biggest airline in Latin America?

• LATAM Airline Group is the largest carrier in Latin America, offering 8.6 million seats this month - an increase of 5.8%, or 475,100 more seats than last month.
• Jetsmart made the largest percentage increase in capacity again this month of 29.5% (354,100 additional seats), followed by GOL Linhas Aereas with a 17.8% increase (555,000 additional seats).
• Azul Airlines and Aeromexico reduced capacity by 5.9% and 1.5% respectively.