Demand for domestic flights in Brazil rises 4% in December and reaches highest level in 4 years

SAO PAULO-the demand for seats on domestic flights in Brazil in December rose 3,98% before that month of 2017, said on Tuesday the entity that represents airlines, Abear in the best performance for the period in four years. Already the supply of advanced 2,65% seats, also compared to the previous year. As the pace was lower than the demand, the level of occupancy of flights arrived in 84,36%, with a high of 1.07 percentage point year on year. Together, GOL and Latam, blue and Avianca, the partners of Abear, transported 8.6 million passengers on domestic flights in December, 4,23% volume greater than a year earlier. " The statistics offer, demand and passengers carried are some of the highest ever recorded for December, returning the highest levels recorded in 2014 ", Abear said in a note. On international flights, the demand for air transport in these companies went up 20,5% on December 2017, while supply grew 20, 6%. With that, the level of occupation of the aircraft climbed 0.31 percentage point, to 83,23%. The total number of passengers carried had almost 12% magnification, to 869,000. Year to date, the demand for domestic air travel, advanced 4,4%, while supply grew 4,7%. The international demand had 16,5% expansion before 2017 and the offer had increased to 19,7%. (By Aluízio Alves)