Flying High.
By Adam Jacobson

Latin America represents one of the hottest growth opportunities for airlines, as competition makes mergers and alliances the new name of the game.

Travelers flying around Latin America today are enjoying options that were unimaginable just a few years ago. Given the bevy of new routes, direct access to more cities and the entry of scrappy, low-cost carriers, business and leisure customers are flying high.

So is the industry. The expanding ranks of global airline alliances are credited with helping to boost business for a broad swath of carriers operating in the region. And Latin American carriers, unlike many struggling counterparts in the United States and Europe, managed to skirt the turbulence of the crisis.

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