(Not my words) DEN is excited to announce that Copa Airlines will begin nonstop service from Denver to Panama City, Panama beginning Dec. 11!
The new service will operate four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The flight is scheduled to arrive at DEN at 4:12 p.m. and depart DEN at 10:30 p.m. It will operate using a Boeing 737-800 with 154 seats.
Currently, more than 30 passengers a day fly between Denver and Panama, and demand to Central and South America totals nearly 700 passengers per day. Copaās nonstop flight will enable Denver passengers to arrive in Panama up to two to three hours faster than on other airlines.
Say it again!! Now Iām going to make a game and try and guess the next international carrier to arrive š!
I added some more of the photos I found. Hope you guys are as pumped and excited as me :)
If they are copying anyone, itās Continental. They had a large role in Copa, and so they took thier design and tweaked it a bit, so people knew that they were related.
Half of Copa Airlinesā actions were handled by Continental since 1998 until their merge with United. Yes, looks like UA/CO because they decided to adopt a similar livery, which looks beautiful in their fleet but I slightly disagree since they should have made their own livery. United still has the alliance with Copa.
The new service will operate four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The flight is scheduled to arrive at DEN at 4:12 p.m. and depart DEN at 10:30 p.m. It will operate using a Boeing 737-800 with 154 seats.
Fun fact, Continental bought out United, the United livery you see today is the livery Continental used, Unites had that weird blue and white thing going on.
Itās no PTY-GRU, but PTY-DEN is 2,631 miles according to GCM, which is longer than PTY-JFK (2,200 miles) and PTY-BOS (2,348 miles). With the altitude payload optimisation that DEN has, imagine how many empty seats that 737 will have!
In 1998, Continental Airlines acquired 49% of the airline, marking the beginning of a comprehensive marketing and operating alliance. On May 19, 1999, Continental increased its stake to 51%. Since then, Copa has adopted a livery and corporate logo similar to Continentalās (now United). Copa participated in the OnePass frequent flyer program until Continentalās merger with United Airlines. In connection with the initial public offering in December 2005, Continental reduced its stake to approximately 27.3% and through a follow-on offering in 2006, further reduced it to approximately 10%.
