Air Canada’s traffic to the Caribbean keeps rising.

The carrier announced continued growth to the region in January, with an 8.1 percent year-over-year increase in revenue passenger miles to 735 million.

Load factor increased by 1.2 percentage points to 86.8 percent, while available seat miles rose by 6.4 percent to 846 million.

Overall, the carrier reported a record load factory in January of 80.1 percent.

“Air Canada generated greater traffic in all markets served led by Atlantic, Pacific, Latin American and Caribbean markets in which we also achieved increases in load factors from the previous year,” said Calin Rovinescu, President and Chief Executive Officer. “These strong results underscore the effectiveness of our commercial strategy with its focus on international growth, aggressive expansion of Air Canada rouge in leisure markets, focus on sixth freedom traffic to feed Canadian hubs, Boeing 777 aircraft seat densification, introduction of a Premium Economy product, A++ Joint Venture with Star Alliance partners and regional airline diversification.”