Grupo AeroMexico, which controls Mexico's largest airline, said on Tuesday its passenger traffic in August increased 17 percent from a year earlier, helped by a jump in international bookings.

It's a good thing we are pulling down more flying, because there are only so many passengers out there. If we are going to invest in AeroMexico and help them to become the strong competitor they deserve to be, we need to give them a lot of passengers as well to make sure their planes are full. They only grew 17% last year, but hopefully with the help of our codeshare and all those tickets bought at Delta.com, this next year will be a more prosperous one for them.