No cabe duda, que luego de ser el ejemplo de latinoamérica, cada vez estemos peor.
Infrastructure shortcomings threaten Latin American carriers’ fast growth
By Aaron Karp | November 15, 2012
Latin American airlines continue to enjoy strong growth, but the
region’s aviation infrastructure—both airports and ATC—cannot adequately
handle the rapid expansion in passengers and cargo, potentially
suppressing demand, a number of officials have warned.
“With [year-over-year] growth of 10.1% in passenger traffic over the first nine months of the year, [Latin America] is only surpassed by the Middle East among aviation’s fastest-growing regions,” IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler told the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Assn. (ALTA) Airline Leaders Forum in Panama City.
But he added, “It is no secret that Latin American infrastructure development has not kept pace with growing demand. Only one state—Barbados—ranks in the top 25 for quality of air transport infrastructure, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2011 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report of 139 countries. Panama ranks among the highest at 33. Of the region’s largest economies, Chile ranks 26. But Mexico is 65, Brazil 93 and Argentina stands at 115.”
AviancaTaca chairman and ALTA president Roberto Kriete, also speaking at the forum, noted that infrastructure is “not always favorable for air transportation” in Latin America.
“Approximately one-third of flights in the region depart from an airport that is congested or very congested,” he said, adding that aviation infrastructure is “actually going backwards” in some parts of Latin America. “We cannot continue to patch the infrastructure” and maintain the current pace of growth, he cautioned.
Part of the problem is that growth in the region has been much faster over the last decade than anyone could have anticipated, LAN and TAM parent LATAM Airlines Group CEO Enrique Cueto said. “When you talk to authorities, they say by law they can’t plan for growth rates of more than 6% [annually], but the industry is growing at 15%,” he explained. “The industry in the region has grown faster than elsewhere in the world.”
Explosive growth achieved over the last decade by carriers such as Brazil’s TAM and GOL “was unthinkable for aviation planners 10 years ago and we have to catch up,” Cueto said.
“With [year-over-year] growth of 10.1% in passenger traffic over the first nine months of the year, [Latin America] is only surpassed by the Middle East among aviation’s fastest-growing regions,” IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler told the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Assn. (ALTA) Airline Leaders Forum in Panama City.
But he added, “It is no secret that Latin American infrastructure development has not kept pace with growing demand. Only one state—Barbados—ranks in the top 25 for quality of air transport infrastructure, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2011 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report of 139 countries. Panama ranks among the highest at 33. Of the region’s largest economies, Chile ranks 26. But Mexico is 65, Brazil 93 and Argentina stands at 115.”
AviancaTaca chairman and ALTA president Roberto Kriete, also speaking at the forum, noted that infrastructure is “not always favorable for air transportation” in Latin America.
“Approximately one-third of flights in the region depart from an airport that is congested or very congested,” he said, adding that aviation infrastructure is “actually going backwards” in some parts of Latin America. “We cannot continue to patch the infrastructure” and maintain the current pace of growth, he cautioned.
Part of the problem is that growth in the region has been much faster over the last decade than anyone could have anticipated, LAN and TAM parent LATAM Airlines Group CEO Enrique Cueto said. “When you talk to authorities, they say by law they can’t plan for growth rates of more than 6% [annually], but the industry is growing at 15%,” he explained. “The industry in the region has grown faster than elsewhere in the world.”
Explosive growth achieved over the last decade by carriers such as Brazil’s TAM and GOL “was unthinkable for aviation planners 10 years ago and we have to catch up,” Cueto said.
No
cabe duda alguna, que sin la salida forzada de MXA, estos no hubieran
crecido, pero según ellos han abierto rutas, les creemos?
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Interjet adds 10 Superjet 100 options; Mexican carrier seen as program’s key customer
By Aaron Karp | November 16, 2012
Interjet has added 10 options to its firm order for 20 Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft, and Superjet International increasingly believes the Mexican carrier holds the key to the future success of the regional aircraft.
While there are 11 SSJ100s already in service, Interjet will become the first Western operator to receive the aircraft when it takes delivery of its first of the type in March 2013 (ATW Daily News, Oct. 9). It plans to take eight more SSJ100s through the remainder of 2013 and another 11 in 2014.
“Interjet is now considered as the top priority customer,” Superjet International CEO Nazario Cauceglia told ATW at the Latin American and Caribbean Airline Assn. (ALTA) Airline Leaders Forum in Panama City. “This is our great chance to penetrate the Western market and we can’t lose it … We cannot fail. We must make them happy.”
He said Interjet plans “very intensive use of the aircraft,” adding, “Interjet will help us a lot” in convincing other Western airlines to order the SSJ100. He said there is “a good, good chance” the carrier will turn the 10 options into additional firm orders “in a reasonably short time.”
