LIAT’s newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer, Captain Ian Brunton has described thirty-five percent of the airline’s 112 daily flights as “social (uneconomic) routes”. “LIAT cannot continue to meet the cost of these social routes,” Brunton told the CTO state of the industry conference in St. Kitts last week.

LATAM Airlines Group S.A. and its subsidiaries, the leading airline group in Latin America, today reported its preliminary monthly traffic statistics for September 2012 compared to September 2011.