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Copa Airlines announces 2011 expansion plans: more destinations, new flight frequencies and improved schedules

Source: Copa Airlines


Copa Airlines announces 2011 expansion plans: more destinations, new flight frequencies and improved schedules With the addition of three new destinations as of June 2011, the airline will serve 55 destinations in 27 countries on the American continent, with a total of 180 daily flights from the Hub of the Americas at Tocumen Airport in Panama City, Panama.
Copa Airlines will generate more than 1,000 new jobs in 2011, to include pilots, technicians, crew and management.


From left to right:
Moises Veliz, Government Relations VicePresident; Rafaél Bárcenas, General Director of Civil Aviation Authority of Panama; Pedro Heilbron, Executive President of Copa Airlines; Juan Carlos Pino, General Manager of Tocumen International Airport; Ada Romero Monico, General Director of MITRADEL; Victor Vial, CFO Copa Airlines.

PANAMA, January 20, 2011--Copa Airlines, subsidiary of Copa Holdings, S.A. {NYSE: CPA} announced today that as of June 2011 it will increase daily flight frequencies to several countries in its extensive route network, offer more convenient schedules and begin service to three new destinations: Toronto, Canada; Porto Alegre, Brazil; and Nassau, Bahamas.

The new flights and increased frequencies reinforce Copa's major role in the development of the Panamanian economy; the ambitious expansion plan will generate direct and indirect contributions to the local economy.


"Thanks to these new destinations and the increase in frequencies from our Hub of the Americas in Panama City, Copa Airlines continues to expand its coverage and reaffirm its leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean," said Pedro Heilbron, CEO. "Copa offers flights to more international destinations than any other airline from any other hub in the region."

"The Hub of the Americas continues to be the most efficient and convenient connection point on the continent," Heilbron added. "The increase in flight frequencies will allow us to significantly improve our daily arrival and departure schedules to offer better connectivity, more flight options and more frequent connections throughout the day - in fact, up to six connections for some markets."

In 2010 Copa Airlines transported more than 5.2 million passengers via the region's most complete route network through the Hub of the Americas. The airline's on-time performance of greater than 90 percent (measured by industry standards established by the U.S. Department of Transportation), puts the airline in a leadership position in Latin America and among the best in the world. The arrival of 10 new Boeing 737-800 aircraft this year will signal even greater growth. The airline will generate more than 1,000 jobs, including pilots, technicians, crew and management, and Copa will continue its expansion and contributions to the development of business and tourism in Panama and Latin America.

More and Better Schedules, Flight Frequencies for Business Travellers
Copa Airlines' transition as of June 15 from a four-bank operational system to six banks (groups of connecting schedules) will allow the airline to better utilize Tocumen Airport's existing infrastructure as well as offer passengers more and better scheduling options.

As of that date, the Hub of the Americas at Tocumen Airport will add to its existing flight banks (two in the morning and two in the afternoon) with a group of early-morning departures - ideal for travelers who want to arrive at their destination early in the day- and afternoon departures to take advantage of airport down time.

These operational changes also translate to significant improvements in Copa Airlines' flight schedules to major destinations on the American continent, such as New York's JFK Airport and Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., as well as to South America's principal cities.

Opportunities for connection will increase throughout Copa's extensive route network as well, resulting in shorter connecting times, giving the Panamanian airline a firm foothold as the best choice for connectivity and convenient travel schedules.

In addition to the four-times-a-week flights to its three new destinations, Toronto, Porto Alegre and Nassau, Copa will increase frequencies on the following flights:

Destinations from Panama Daily flights
In 2010 as of June 2011
Lima, Peru
4
5
Orlando, Florida
2
3
Miami, Florida
3
4
Bogota, Colombia 5 6
Santiago Chile 2 3

In operation for more than six decades, the Panamanian airline will offer a total of 180 daily flights from the Hub of the Americas at Tocumen International Airport to 55 destinations in 27 countries in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. The airline will continue to strengthen Panama City as a business center and tourist destination and to improve Panama's connectivity with the rest of the world.

COPA AIRLINES announces new destinations

COPA AIRLINES announces new destinations: Source www.laprensa.com

Flights to Toronto, Nassau and Porto Alegre will be released in June. At year end, the company expects to have increased its capacity by 20%.
ROBERTO JIMÉNEZ GONZÁLEZ
roberto.gonzalez @ prensa.com
Copa Airlines will fly from June 15 to three new destinations: Toronto, Canada, Nassau, Bahamas , and Porto Alegre, Brazil. Each destination will fly four times weekly. This was announced at a press conference its chief executive, Pedro Heilbron, who announced that in June announced 3 or 4 destinations to begin operations in December.
In addition, the company will extend from June a daily basis to destinations such as Lima (end in 5 flights daily), Orlando (3), Miami (4), Bogotá (6) and Santiago de Chile (3).
The Panamanian airline serves 55 destinations in 27 countries, with a total of 180 flights daily. The extension of frequency and destinations will run with 8 aircraft were in 2010 and 10 waiting in 2011, which the airline's capacity will grow by 20%, some 7 000 additional seats per day, for what you need 500 thousand new employees.
To manage the increased traffic, create two new banks Copa flight-periods of time in which several planes arriving and departing the airport, facilitating connections, "one early morning and another in the later.
These banks had joined the airline operates four in Tocumen. In this sense, the Panamanian airport will distance themselves from their competitors in the region, working with two banks of flights, said Heilbron.
In the expansion plans of the airline "fit" the opening of the new airport terminal, the North Pier. "Today we do not fit in the airport," he said. The terminal works implemented by the consortium Aerotocumen have been delayed by heavy rains, but is expected to open in the second half of the year.
The manager of Tocumen SA, Juan Carlos Pino, said he is working on studies of the south pier, a new terminal with 15 gates to 20.

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

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Malek airport expansion progresses

Source: La Prensa

Malek airport expansion progresses
The work will enable the arrival of ships capable of carrying up to 300 passengers and improve the conditions and service.


TERMINAL. Extension work at the Enrique Malek Airport. SPECIAL TO THE PRESS / Teófilo González
TEÓFILO A. GONZÁLEZ
DAVID, CHIRIQUI
negocios@prensa.com
The remodeling and expansion of facilities Enrique Malek International Airport in the city of David progressing despite excessive rains late last year.

The rehabilitation and expansion of the airport terminal and runway Enrique Malek develop at a cost of 27 million 478 thousand 845 U.S. dollars.

Sources from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) reported that the first phase (taxiway) was finished and is expected later this month will be delivered the second phase corresponding to reinforcement, sealing cracks and prenivelación of the main runway.

The third stage or extent of the track progressed by 14% until Dec. 22 when they had poured 20 thousand cubic meters of material selected, and the fourth phase or adjacent to the terminal building by 20% advanced.

The work awarded through competitive bidding to the company Riva Argentina SA, in mid-2009, allow for the arrival of ships capable of carrying up to 300 passengers and will significantly improve conditions and services of the airport.

The Civil Aviation director, Rafael Barcenas, said the Enrique Malek airport expansion and construction of new airport terminals in Columbus and central provinces will serve as a hub to the national economy, mainly on the exploitation of tourism potential within the country.

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