Aeroperlas Regional,
one of Panama's largest and long-established domestic airlines,
is now offering daily, scheduled flights between Marcos A. Gelabert
Airport (Panama City) and the France Field Airport, in the city
of Colón. The new service will cater to the growing numbers
of businessmen traveling to the Colón Free Zone and tourists
visiting the Caribbean coast of the Isthmus. The flight between
Panama City and Colón lasts approximately 20 minutes.
Aeroperlas Regional,
which is affiliated to Grupo TACA, also flies to David, Chitré,
Bocas del Toro, the Perlas Islands and a number of destinations
in Darién and the Kuna Yala Islands. (see ad on the ad section).
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Copa Airlines
launches new
San Andrés-Panama City package
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With a
party at Panama City's Hotel El Panama, Copa Airlines launched its
"Panama-San Andrés Plan", a new travel package for
the carrier's customers. The plan was launched in association with
three hotel chains on the San Andrés and Providencia Islands:
Four Points/Sheraton, Hoteles Sol Caribe and Hoteles Sunrise, and
two hotels in Panama (El Panama and Hotel Sheraton Four Points). Present
at the event were representatives of tour operators and travel agencies
from Central America, Colombia and Ecuador.
Copa Airlines,
which recently started flying to the San Andrés Islands, serves
30 other destinations throughout the Americas and the Caribbean.
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Promoters
of the San Andrés-Panama City package. From left to right:
Jaime Campuzano, General Manager of Hotel El Panama; Juan Carlos Osorio
(Hotel Sol Caribe San Andrés); Lisette Holguín, Commercial
Manager of Hotel Sol Caribe San Andrés; Rafael Herrera, Manager
of the Four Points Sheraton Hotel (Panama City); Marrio Echeverry,
General Comptroller of Hotel El Panama, and Carlos Reyes, Manager
of Hotel Sunrise (San Andrés).
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Copa
Airlines has announced that it will move its headquarters, located
on Avenida Justo Arosemena since the company’s establishment
in 1947. The airline’s new offfices will be located at the Business
Park complex, in Costa del Este. Relocation will take place either
in December or in early 2006.
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Panamá
and Paraguay sign
commercial aviation agreements
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Copa
Airlines could start flying to Asunción, Paraguay in the near
future.
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The governments
of Panama and Paraguay recently signed a series of agreements covering
air transport and technical co-operation during the 28th Summit of
Heads of State of the South American Common Market (MERCOSUR), to
which Panama attended as a special guest.
The commercial
air transport agreement grants air representation to both countries,
which have never been linked by direct flight services. This could
benefit Copa Airlines, Panama’s private-owned national airline,
which could start a non-stop flight service between Panama City’s
Tocumen International Airport and Asunción, Paraguay in the
near future.
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The Carnival Liberty:
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Huge cruise
ship to call at
Colón 2000 this fall
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“Liberty”,
the newest luxury vessel of Carnival Cruise Lines, is scheduled to
call at Panama's Colón 2000 cruise port on the Caribbean on
November 17 as part of its maiden voyage.
When put
out to sea this fall, Carnival's "new baby" will be one
of the largest luxury liners of the Caribbean, with capacity for 3,500
passengers.
After a
30-year hiatus, Panama's cruise ship industry was officialy revitalized
in 2000 with the opening of the Colón 2000 and Pier 6 cruise
ports on the Caribbean, and with the Fuerte Amador Resort & Marina,
on the Pacific, a couple of years later. Each season since 2000 (October-May)
an average of 134 ships have called at Panamanian ports (It is important
to mention, however, that a number of experimental calls took place
between 1997 and 1999 at Gatún Yacht Club, on the Panama Canal).
Approximately 304,000 cruise ship passengers disembarked on Isthmian
soil during the 2003-2004 season.
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