Aviation in Panama - Airlines of Panama, Airports in Panama, Aviation Accidents and Incidents in Panama, Tocumen International Airport (Paperback)

Chapters: Airlines of Panama, Airports in Panama, Aviation Accidents and Incidents in Panama, Tocumen International Airport, Copa Airlines, Howard Air Force Base, Albrook Air Force Station, Rio Hato Airport, List of Airports in Panama, Aeroperlas, Bocas Del Toro "Isla Colon" International Airport, Enrique Malek International Airport, Air Panama, Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901, Copa Airlines Flight 201, Dhl Aero Expreso, Albrook "Marcos A. Gelabert" International Airport, List of Airlines of Panama, Panavia, Calzada Larga Airport, Chame Airport, Panama City Metropolitan Airport, Ruben Cantu Airport, Air Services Cargo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 85. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Copa Airlines is an airline based in Panama City, Panama, and serves as Panama's flag carrier. Its main base of operations is Tocumen International Airport, from where it operates approximately 148 daily scheduled flights to 45 destinations in 24 countries in North America, Central America, South America and The Caribbean. The airline was established as Compania Panamena de Aviacion (hence the acronym COPA) on 21 June 1944 and started operations on 15 August 1947. It was founded by a group of prominent Panamanian investors with assistance from Pan American, which took a 32% stake. It began operations with domestic flights operated by a small fleet of Douglas DC-3 and Douglas C-47 aircraft. The airline started its first international flights in the 1960s when services were inaugurated to cities in Jamaica, Colombia, and Costa Rica. It became wholly Panamanian owned in 1971. Until the early 1980s, the airline had significant competition from Air Panama, until then, a better known airline to the international public. Copa discontinued its domestic flights in 1979 and acquired its first jet, a Boeing 737-...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=29887