Copa Airlines
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| IATA code : | CM |
| ICAO code : | CMP |
| Call sign : | COPA |
| Founding: | 1947 |
| Seat: |
Panama City , Panama
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| Home airport : | Panama |
| IATA prefix code : | 230 |
| Management: | Pedro Heilbron ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees: | 8,733 (2016) |
| Sales: | US $ 2.2 billion (2016) |
| Passenger volume: | 11.345 million (2013) |
| Alliance : | Star Alliance |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | ConnectMiles |
| Fleet size: | 83 (+ 55 orders) |
| Aims: | international |
| Website: | www.copaair.com |
Copa Airlines is Panama's national airline based in Panama City and based at Panama Airport . It is a member of the Star Alliance aviation alliance .
history
The airline was founded on June 21, 1944 and began operating on May 5, 1947. Copa is an acronym for Compañía Panameña de Aviación . It was founded with the help of Pan Am , which had a risk share of 32%. Flight operations began with a small fleet of Douglas DC-3s and Douglas C-47s . The airline offered the first international routes in the 1960s when routes to Jamaica , Colombia and Costa Rica were established.
Until the 1980s, Air Panama Internacional , which by then had a greater international profile, was a tough competition. Copa Airlines increased the competition when the first jet aircraft, a Boeing 737-100 , was bought for routes to the Dominican Republic , to Puerto Rico and the USA .
The expansion policy continued into the 1990s, and the flight destinations extended to Argentina , Chile , Cuba , Peru , Mexico and many other Latin American countries.
On May 19, 1998, Continental Airlines acquired 49 percent of Copa Airlines' shares, initiating a comprehensive marketing and operations alliance. Since then, Copa Airlines has adapted the aircraft livery and logo and took over the OnePass frequent flyer program .
Due to the change from Continental Airlines to the Star Alliance , Copa Airlines announced on May 26, 2009 that it would end its cooperation with SkyTeam as of October 2009. On November 10, 2010, it was finally announced that Copa Airlines would join the international airline alliance Star Alliance by 2012.
In 2011, Copa Airlines introduced a new logo similar to United Airlines' design and has since been using their MileagePlus frequent flyer program after Continental Airlines merged with United Airlines. Joined the Star Alliance on June 22, 2012.
On April 10, 2015, Copa Airlines announced that it would order 61 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft . The division between MAX 8 and MAX 9 is still open.
Destinations
From its hub in Panama, Copa Airlines operates a network of 73 destinations in 30 countries in North America , Central America , South America and the Caribbean and also serves metropolises such as Washington DC , Bogotá , Rio de Janeiro and Nassau .
Code sharing
The airline has code-sharing agreements with United Airlines , Aeroméxico , Avianca , Gol Transportes Aéreos , KLM , Lufthansa , Turkish Airlines , Asiana Airlines and TAME .
fleet
As of August 2020, the Copa Airlines fleet consists of 83 aircraft with an average age of 9.2 years:
| Aircraft type | active | ordered | Remarks | Seats ( Business / Economy ) |
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| Boeing 737-700 | 13 | with winglets fitted | 124 (12/112) | |
| Boeing 737-800 | 64 | all equipped with winglets, 50 of them with split-scimitar winglets | 154 (16/138) 160 (16/144) |
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| Boeing 737 MAX 9 | 6th | 55 | Distribution between MAX 8 and MAX 9 still open; all inactive | - open- |
| total | 83 | 55 |
Former fleet
In August 2020, Alliance Airlines took over 14 Embraer E190s from Copa Airlines .
Incidents
- On June 6, 1992, Copa Airlines flight 201 crashed with 40 passengers and 7 crew members on board in the province of Darién on the border between Panama and Colombia. There were no survivors. Investigators found that one of the Boeing 737's gyroscopic instruments failed, but the pilots did not react properly and consequently lost control of the aircraft.
See also
Web links
- Copa Airlines website (English, Spanish, Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2016 , April 21, 2017, accessed on February 21, 2018.
- ↑ Copa Airlines 2013 financial year results PDF file (English) accessed on April 11, 2015
- ↑ copaair.com - About ConnectMiles , accessed December 17, 2015
- ↑ aero.de - Avianca-TACA and Copa Airlines join Star Alliance November 10, 2010
- ↑ Avianca, Taca Airlines and Copa Airlines join the Star Alliance at aero.de, accessed on June 3, 2019
- ↑ boeing.com - Copa Airlines selects the 737 MAX with 61 airplane order, April 10, 2015 (English) accessed on April 13, 2015
- ↑ Bulk order for Boeing from Panama , accessed on April 11, 2015
- ↑ [1]
- ^ Copa Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Boeing - Orders and Deliveries (English) accessed on November 23, 2018
- ↑ copaair.com - Fleet (English) accessed on December 23, 2014
- ^ Alliance Airlines To Acquire 14 Former Copa Embraer E190s. In: simpleflying.com. August 3, 2020, accessed on August 3, 2020 (eng).
- ↑ Los Angeles Times - 47 Killed in Crash of Panama Airliner.Retrieved February 7, 2015
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
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