Copa Airlines Announces Daily Flights to Sao Paulo, Brazil.Business Editors & Travel/Transportation Writers PANAMA CITY Panama City, city (1990 pop. 34,378), seat of Bay co., NW Fla., on St. Andrews Bay; inc. 1909. A Gulf Coast resort with amusement parks and excellent fishing, it is also a port of entry. The city's industries produce paper, clothing, and chemicals. , Panama--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 2002 Copa Airlines announced today that beginning Dec. 13, it will offer daily flights between Panama and Sao Paulo, Brazil, except Mondays from Panama and Tuesdays from Sao Paulo. With these new flights, Copa will operate six weekly flights between Panama and Sao Paulo. The new Copa flight will leave Panama at 11:20 a.m., arriving in Sao Paulo at 9:20 p.m., local time. The return flight leaves Sao Paulo at 2:10 p.m., arriving in Panama at 6:10 p.m. "The increase in the number of daily flights that we offer to Sao Paulo reinforces our effort to promote travel options from our Hub of the Americas, in order to contribute to the development of trade and tourism in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. ," said Jorge Garcia Jorge Garcia (born April 28, 1973) is an American comedian and actor. He first came to public attention with his performance as Hector Lopez on the show Becker, and currently stars as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes in the American television series Lost. Icaza, commercial vice president of Copa Airlines. "In addition, it demonstrates the progress of our operations at Copa's Hub of the Americas at Tocumen International Airport Tocumen International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Tocumen) (IATA: PTY, ICAO: MPTO) is an international airport located 15 miles (24 km) from Panamá City, Panamá. ." Copa Airlines will operate a Boeing 737-700 Next Generation aircraft on the route, with space for 124 passengers: 12 in Executive Class and 112 in the main cabin. "The recent increase in the number of flights we offer, as well as our modernization program that includes the acquisition of new Boeing 737-800 Next Generation aircraft, places Copa Airlines at the forefront of commercial aviation in the region," Garcia Icaza added. With more than 55 years of experience, Copa Airlines (copaair.com) flies to 29 destinations in 19 countries in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. In September 2001, Copa was named to the "Excelencia 2001" ("Excellence 2001") list in America Economia Magazine for its "innovation, creativity and leadership in the field of aviation." In November 2002, PODER PODER People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (San Francisco, CA) Magazine and Booz, Allen & Hamilton and Egon Zehnder International Egon Zehnder International is a leading global executive search firm. It was founded in 1964 by Egon Zehnder. History Realizing that the only way to overcome the resistance encountered by executive search in Europe was to adopt an entirely professional approach marked by gave Copa the "Best Regionalization regionalization Managed care The subdivision of a broadly available service–eg, a blood bank, into quasi-autonomous regional centers, capable of making decisions and providing more cost-effective and/or faster service to hospitals and health care facilities, in Latin America" award for its "successful development of its hub in Panama, which contributes to the continuous development of Latin America." From its base at Tocumen International Airport in Panama City, Copa Airlines operates the Hub of the Americas, one of the most efficient and successful hubs in Latin America. In 2002, the airline expects to transport 1.2 million passengers. |
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