Brent Pin­heiro

brent.pin­heiro@guardian.co.tt

Pana­ma-based car­ri­er Co­pa Air­lines will in­crease ser­vice to Port of Spain, Trinidad (POS) from June 5th, 2024. The air­line will fly to and from POS ten times week­ly, up from sev­en dai­ly flights. These ad­di­tion­al non­stop flights be­tween Toc­u­men In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (PTY) in Pana­ma City and Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al will op­er­ate on Tues­days, Wednes­days, and Fri­days. Co­pa Air­lines will use a mix­ture of Boe­ing 737 air­craft on the route, with the largest, the Boe­ing 737 MAX 9, able to hold up to 174 pas­sen­gers in a 2-class con­fig­u­ra­tion.

Copa’s new flight schedule for flights to/from Trinidad.

Ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease, the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture, and the Arts, as well as the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad & To­ba­go (AATT), the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port, and Tourism Trinidad Ltd have been work­ing to in­crease air­lift to Trinidad by way of strate­gic al­liances with Co­pa Air­lines and oth­er air­lines that serve Latin Amer­i­ca. The min­istry says this lat­est in­crease in ser­vice al­lows for more ac­cess to the Pana­ma mar­ket and op­por­tu­ni­ties for in­creased leisure and trade links.

Co­pa Air­lines, the flag car­ri­er of Pana­ma, has been ramp­ing up its net­work ex­pan­sion plans and now flies to 85 des­ti­na­tions in 32 coun­tries across Cen­tral, South, North Amer­i­ca, and the Caribbean. Less than a month ago, the air­line an­nounced plans to fly to three new des­ti­na­tions - Tu­lum, Mex­i­co, Flo­ri­a­nop­o­lis, Brazil, and Raleigh-Durham, USA.