IATA, Regional Vice President The Americas, Peter Cerdá, at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Americas 2025
IATA, Regional Vice President The Americas, Peter Cerdá spoke to CAPA TV at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Americas 2025 in the Cayman Islands, about latest industry trends and company developments.
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Transcript
Peter Cerdá:I think it's a great opportunity. What the CEOs of the IATA Executive Board, who happen to also be CEOs of IATA, what they are looking for is greater synergies. How do we bring both organizations to work more collaboratively, more efficiently, and take advantage of the pros on both sides of the fence, on the side of IATA from the global perspective, and in ALTA, the different dimensions that they bring locally within the market in Latin America. Well, I think one of the things is how are we going to work together collaboratively with one single voice for the benefit of the industry and making sure that our governments are listening to the industry needs. And that's really the goal that we have both from the IATA and the ALTA side. I mean, in most cases, 95% of the activities are already very much seamless and very much aligned. So it's how do we collaborate better to make sure that the industry is heard with a strong aligned voice, and we can certainly achieve what our member airlines want from both organizations, and that's create a better operating environment which will permit the industry to grow, connect more destinations, to connect to more cities, and to make air travel much more viable for the travelling public. Right now we haven't seen a significant impact on the tariffs that have been applied by the US government, but certainly something we're going to be very watchful for. It may actually be an opportunity for Latin America as a region, because you may see many travelers from places like Canada or Europe who decide not to travel to the US and look towards the south in Latin America and the Caribbean as an opportunity of travel. So this is something we're looking very, very closely. Certainly what we want to make sure is that air connectivity can stay strong, that air connectivity can continue to grow between the US and, and our region in Latin America.
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