Petrovsky19 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (5 years 6 months 1 week 3 days ago) and read 3104 times:
Starting May, 2008 CM to increase its flights to HAV to four times a day, carrying an average of 500 passengers. Is the Panama-Cuba demand that high? Is CM increasing flights to other destinations as well?
Yellowtail From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 5159 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (5 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2966 times:
Come on CM....make one of those a PTY-BZE-HAV....there is a lot of HAV-BZE traffic....all of it goes through Cancun or on the Yak Charters....
When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No-one has ever collided with the sky.
Luisca From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (5 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2950 times:
Quoting Petrovsky19 (Thread starter): Starting May, 2008 CM to increase its flights to HAV to four times a day, carrying an average of 500 passengers. Is the Panama-Cuba demand that high? Is CM increasing flights to other destinations as well?
Copa provides the only connection to Havana for MANY South American countries, it is one of CMs premium cash cow routes and can be very hard to find a seat some times, It is mostly connecting traffic, although Cuba is one of the Colon Free Zone's largest customers.
2travel2know From Panama, joined Apr 2005, 3580 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (5 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 2773 times:
Other Latinamerica (except CUN) / Caribbean - Cuba flights have very limited frequencies.
Nowadays it might be right to say that the 1st airline which comes to mind to someone in Southamerica when traveling to/from Cuba is CM.
PTY-SCU - at least thrice weekly - would really be the icing on the cake for PTY-Cuba airtraffic.
SJOtoLIR From Costa Rica, joined Jul 2007, 4078 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (5 years 6 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 2494 times:
From the report:
"According to the agreement, Copa Airlines will fly to Havana four times a day, carrying an average of 500 passengers.
At present, Copa Airlines operates three daily flights to Cuba, and flights will increase to 28 a week after the agreement comes into force."
The new flight PTY-HAV will be probably departing in the evening bank and returning early next day.
At this time, there are two CM PTY-HAV in the morning array.
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Quoting Luisca (Reply 2): Copa provides the only connection to Havana for MANY South American countries
TA offers one daily morning departure HAV-SJO that allows connections to nine South American countries through SJO and LIM as long as an evening operation TA SJO-HAV is able to come back those passengers to Cuba.
However, CM supplies more connections to South America from HAV, as you pointed out.
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Quoting 2travel2know (Reply 3): Other Latinamerica (except CUN) / Caribbean - Cuba flights have very limited frequencies.
Nowadays it might be right to say that the 1st airline which comes to mind to someone in Southamerica when traveling to/from Cuba is CM.
I agree there.
CM is currently offering the best level of service supported on frequencies, more destinations and just one stop on the way to their South American stations from HAV.
CU flies to CCS, BOG and EZE with limited weekly schedules.
LA gets one weekly SCL-HAV.
IMHO, the South American market is participating actively in order to load CM's planes for their other destinations in the Caribbean: STI, PUJ, SDQ, PAP, KIN, SJU, ADZ and POS next month.
Spinkid From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 1001 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (5 years 6 months 1 week 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 2449 times:
Sounds like this will make travel to Cuba easier flying from the West and Midwest of the USA, for those choosing to ignore the travel embargo.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21481 posts, RR: 24 Reply 7, posted (5 years 6 months 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 2318 times:
I wonder if the U.S. government has any problem with CM doing business with Cuba when CO still owns about 10% of CM (down from 49% as recently as 2005).
Nycfly75 From Italy, joined Aug 2005, 748 posts, RR: 10 Reply 8, posted (5 years 6 months 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 2305 times:
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 7): I wonder if the U.S. government has any problem with CM doing business with Cuba when CO still owns about 10% of CM (down from 49% as recently as 2005).
I think most level headed people consider that embargo one of the silliest foreign policy positions around today. I would think CM would would rather buy back CO's 10% interest than sacrifice a lucrative route if the Americans made an issue of it.
SJOtoLIR From Costa Rica, joined Jul 2007, 4078 posts, RR: 5 Reply 9, posted (5 years 6 months 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 2109 times:
CM PTY-HAV is not for leisure traffic exclusively.
One of the three daily flights has been code-shrared with CU.
CU is boosting special fares for Cuban residents in Panama as shown in the following link in Spanish: http://www.cubana.cu/html/espanol/oferta_panama.html
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