Originally Posted by
jbsay
Connecting in PTY means flying on narrow-bodies, which is a painful way to travel ~6000mi. As for LAX to South America, AA flies a 772 daily LAX-GRU flight; LA flies a 763ER 2x weekly LAX-SCL. In other words, OW is your best bet for flying from the west coast US to South America.
I agree. I don't know if UA competition with AA using wide-body would draw enough demand to make it profitable though.
Copa adding some widebodies on US flights would be nice. With connecting traffic they might even be able to sustain it, though I doubt it for now.