(GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) --Santiago, Chile, March 8, 2018- 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 February 2018 compared to February 2017.

System passenger traffic increased by 4.8%, while capacity rose 4.4%. As a result, the Company's load factor for the month increased 0.4 percentage points to 85.3%. International passenger traffic accounted for approximately 58% of the month's total passenger traffic.

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