Originally Posted by
gregorygrady
The flight that poster mentioned is listed as being under CO. The first and last leg are codeshares through Copa Airlines from JFK-PTY (Panama City). It's a weird routing. JFK-PTY-HOU-GUA and then the reverse home. You fly from USA-Panama-USA-Guatemala. I'm not too familiar with CO as I never fly them, but the website says they are an affiliate of CO. So I'm gonna give it a try as soon as I get through to an agent (been on hold for 59 minutes now and they say the wait is about 1.5 hours).
BTW, flying out of EWR instead drops the price below $1k. Not exactly what we're looking for.

You'll likely end up with a Copa ticket then, not a CO ticket.