Featured Map for 21 April 2017:
Copa Airlines to Denver

On Wednesday, Copa Airlines announced the addition of four-times-weekly flights to Denver, Colorado from Copa's "Hub of the Americas" at Tocumen International Airport in Panamá City. The flights will begin on 11 December 2017 and will be operated with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Denver will be Copa's 13th destination in the United States and will be the 74th airport served by Copa with its fleet of 88 aircraft (comprised of 10 Boeing 737-800s, 66 Boeing 737-800s, and 12 Embraer E190s). Panamá's central location allows the airline to serve most of the Americas and the Caribbean with the 737; the longest route in the network is the 2,941-nm flight to Montevideo.

As a hub for Star Alliance partner United Airlines, Denver appears to be an obvious addition to Copa's network, and Copa will now serve all of pre-merger United's hubs in the continenal United States. Despite a strategic partnership with Continental Airlines that was established in 1998, Copa does not serve United's two ex-Continental hubs at Houston and Newark, though United has twice-daily service from those hubs to Panamá City.

Today's Featured Map shows Copa's 13 U.S. routes from Panamá City.

References and additional information:

• Copa Airlines
  • Copa Airlines announces new nonstop service between Denver, Colorado and Panama (19 April 2017)
• Star Alliance
• United Airlines
• Copa Airlines Fleet Detals and History – Planespotters.net