Infrastructure can’t cope with pace of pan-American air trade growth

Airport cargo infrastructure, as well as established ways of handling logistics, are being challenged by growing traffic.

Airfreight capacity between Latin America and Canada is on the rise, courtesy of Air Canada (AC).

Last month, the airline resumed service to Santiago and Lima, serving the Chilean capital with four weekly nonstop flights each from Montreal and Toronto with B787-9 aircraft – the only carrier with direct flights on these routes.

AC’s return to the Peruvian market, twice weekly out of Toronto and Montreal with B787-9s, ended a three-year hiatus. The airline also deployed the aircraft type on its route to Bogota, marking an increase in capacity from the A330 previously used.

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