Copa Holdings released preliminary passenger traffic statistics for August 2022. As compared to August 2019, this year’s passenger traffic was up by about 0.4%. The August 2019 passenger traffic in available seat miles was 2,125.5 while in August 2020, it rose to 2,1333.3 showing a steady rise. The passenger traffic in revenue per mile also showed an increase of 2.0%. As a result, the system load factor for the month was 86.6%, 1.4 percentage points higher than August 2019. Due to the irregular nature of the operations starting in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the traffic reports are compared to the