Cargo traffic for LATAM Airlines Group, which includes LAN Airlines, decreased in August.
Traffic dropped by 1.9 percent year over year as capacity decreased 5.6 percent. As a consequence, the cargo load factor increased 2.2 points to 59 percent.
The decrease in cargo capacity is a result of a reduced freighter operation in addition to decreased availability in the bellies of passenger aircraft. Cargo traffic decrease was driven by weaker imports into Latin America.