(GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) --Santiago, Chile, February 11, 2019- LATAM Airlines Group S.A. and its subsidiaries, ("LATAM Airlines Group" or "the Company") (NYSE: LTM / IPSA: LTM), the leading airline group in Latin America, today reported its preliminary monthly traffic statistics for January 2019 compared to January 2019.

System passenger traffic increased by 5.1%, while capacity rose 6.1%. As a result, the Company's load factor for the month fell 0.8 percentage points to 85.5%. International passenger traffic accounted for approximately 57% of the month's total passenger traffic.