On April 10 Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez and U.S. President Barack Obama witnessed an agreement signed by Copa Airlines to order for 61 Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 jets.

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On November 16, Lufthansa will begin serving Panama City five times a week using Airbus A340-300 widebodies, each configured to seat 298 passengers for use by its leisure market-oriented ‘Jump’ operation.

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Panama’s Copa Airlines will launch new services this year from Panama City to Montreal in Canada, Fort Lauderdale in Florida, and Georgetown in Guyana. The new destinations will bring Copa Airlines’ route network to a total of 69 destinations in 30 countries.

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Panamanian carrier Copa Airlines is launching four-times-weekly service between Panama City and Tampa on December 16.

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Boeing has rolled out the first 737NG built at the new production rate of 38 aircraft a month. Panamanian customer Copa Airlines will take delivery of the Boeing 737-800 in early April.

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Copa Airlines will offer the first non-stop scheduled flight from Boston Logan International Airport to Latin America when the Star Alliance member begins daily service from Boston to Panama City’s Tocumen International Airport on July 10.

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The milestone Boeing 737-800 containing the 500th 737 Boeing Sky Interior was delivered to Newport Beach, California-based leasing company Aviation Capital Group. Panama-based Copa Airlines will lease and operate the new aircraft.

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Copa Airlines is increasing its service between the airline’s Hub of the Americas at Tocumen International Airport in Panama’s capital Panama City and Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport to four times a week from December 17.

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Avianca, TACA Airlines and Copa Airlines have been inducted into the Star Alliance, cementing the alliance’s presence in Latin America and adding nearly 50 more airports to its network.

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Fort Lauderdale-based Gulfstream International Airlines will deploy all six Saab 340Bplus turboprops on its intra-Florida and Florida-Bahamas routes, replacing smaller, 19-seat Beech 1900D aircraft.

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Panama’s Copa Airlines is adding three new destinations in December – Chicago O’Hare International Airport; Cucuta, Colombia; and Asunción in Paraguay – to bring the airline’s total of new destinations in 2011 to seven.

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Panama’s Copa Airlines will begin nonstop service four times a week between Panama City and Brazil’s capital Brasilia on June 18.

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Boeing has delivered a Next-Generation 737-800 with the new Boeing Sky Interior to Copa Airlines – the first Latin American carrier to take delivery of Boeing’s new cabin interior.

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Panama’s Copa Airlines is increasing daily flight frequencies to several countries in its route network and is launching service to Toronto, Porto Alegre in Brazil and Nassau in the Bahamas in June.

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Copa’s latest Boeing 737-800 order previously was attributed to an unidentified customer on Boeing’s orders and deliveries website.

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Five of the newly contracted 737-800s are due for delivery in 2011 and five during 2012. Copa Airlines now has firm orders and delivery commitments for 33 aircraft, all of them 737-800s.

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We revealed on October 27, 2009 that Star Alliance was in discussions with both Copa Airlines and Avianca-TACA over potential membership in the alliance.

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The newly branded airline incorporates the destinations, route networks and services that Aero República and Copa Airlines offer, including access to Copa’s Hub of the Americas in Panama.

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Copa Airlines is launching twice-weekly nonstop service from Panama City to the Caribbean island of St. Martin on December 18, 2010.

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