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It is 17 of November Copa Airlines celebrates his 25 anniversary in Ecuador where it operates with up to 9 daily flights from Panama City.
The main Panamanian airline celebrates a new important milestone in its operation at Quito and Guayaquil, fulfilling 25 years of uninterrupted operations to both major cities.
With 4 daily flights in both cities, Copa Airlines is the foreign airline with the largest number of flights and seats offered in Ecuador with the 17.5% From the market.
History Copa Airlines
Founded in 1947 by businessman Alberto Motta under the name Copañía Panameña de Aviación, began its domestic flights with Douglas DC-3 aircraft to three cities in Panama.
For 1960, the airline started international flights to San José, Jamaica, Barranquilla and Medellín with Avro aircraft 748 and electra.
at the beginning of the years 70, the airline closes all its domestic routes and focuses its efforts on international routes, what would later become what we know today as the Hub of the Americas.
Since the exclusive start of its international operation and with the incorporation of its first Boeing 737 classics, the airline begins an accelerated growth that allows it to take its biggest international leap in 1992, where it opens routes to Carcas, Mexico, Santiago, Cali, Bogota, Lima, Buenos Aires and Havana, propping up your hub.
After receiving his first Boeing 737-800 Next Generation in the year 2003, the airline has continued its growth throughout the Americas, being a benchmark in compliance, safety and punctuality in the aeronautical sector.
Currently, opera a 80 destinations with a fleet of 102 planes, of which it has begun to receive the newest and most modern Boeing 737 MAX 9.
History in Ecuador
One 17 November 1993, the airline within its international expansion plan, began flights to Ecuador, at that time performing a triangulation operating from Tocúmen to Quito and later continuing the flight to Guayaquil and return.
These flights started with 3 weekly frequencies and later the number of weekly flights increased.
With the demand and thanks to its growth as Hub of the Americas, airline for the year 2000 separates the operation of both cities and implements 2 daily flights to both destinations.
Projections for Ecuador
It is 2018, It has been a great and excellent year for the airline, being the preferred one for the Ecuadorian market for trips mainly to North America thanks to the hundred flights it offers from Panama.
with positive numbers, the airline maintains 4 daily flights to Quito and 5 daily flights to Guayaquil on certain days of the week, operating on mainly Boeing aircraft 737 in their versions -700 and -800 with capacities to 124 and 154 passengers respectively in 2 lessons, plus some flights operated on Embraer aircraft 190 to José Joaquín de Olmedo with capacity for 94 passengers in 2 lessons.
Projections point to increase, on certain days to 5 Daily flights, the arrival of the Boeing 737 MAX and venture into a new destination as they could potentially be blanket and basin, if the operating conditions so allow.
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Good afternoon, could you tell me about the possibility of traveling by Copa Airlines?, either from Caracas or Maracaibo to Miami or Orlando in the month of June
Copa would restart its flights in July.
It would be excellent if the opening of flights to Manta and Cuenca becomes a reality; a magnificent initiative that will contribute to the development of these cities and consequently to the diversification of destinations, currently focused on Quito and Guayaquil.
To Quito they are 4 Daily flights (28 weekly), To Guayaquil they are 4 diaries + CM258 that operates 4 times a week (32 weekly)
Thank you Gabriel, I searched the Copa website for that fifth flight, I could never find it in the itineraries.