Copa Cargo introduces  new plane after record year

Growing demand has led the Copa company to introduce to Copa Airlines Cargo, an aircraft with the capacity to transport 21.7 tons per flight, thus expanding its operations and enhancing the region’s connectivity in the area.

“Due to the growing demand in the region, Copa Airlines has seen the opportunity to expand Copa Airlines Cargo services and deepen our participation in this competitive market, taking advantage of the advantages offered by the ‘Hub of the Americas’, located in the Tocumen International Airport in Panama City,” said Copa Airlines’ senior cargo and courier director, Jaime Álvarez. The company incorporates into the Copa Airlines Cargo service an exclusive cargo aircraft model Boeing 737-800BCF with the capacity to transport 21.7 tons per flight, with which it is projected to “increase the kilos transported by 50% versus 2021 “, a record year with 30,000 tons transported, the company said.

Álvarez explained, “it is a plane from the Copa family converted into a freighter by Boeing itself, with the latest technology, for a freighter plane.” The aircraft registration began operations on March 28 with weekly flights to Central America, Santo Domingo, and Havana, the company said. It is being evaluated soon to operate to other potential destinations that are part of the more than 70 of Copa Airlines’ commercial passenger routes.