Chile's LAN February passenger traffic up 17.2pc

SANTIAGO: Chile's LAN Airlines said on Friday its passenger traffic rose 17.2 percent in February from a year earlier after rising 10.4 percent in January, while cargo traffic fell 1.7 percent.

LAN, which has domestic passenger operations in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru and cargo operations in Brazil and Mexico, expects its takeover of Brazil's TAM to be completed by early May.