Mainly fly LAS-PTY but also some MIA and MSY in there. over the last 6 months finding it very hard to price copa at less than a 50% premium to either UA or AA or both. Often copa is 100%+ more - even head to head with AA on pty-mia.

I assume over recent years more of copa's customers are going to/from brazil, and that this changes how they can value/price segments, but it has been a frustration to find that not only are they almost always the high price las-pty, but often they are 100% higher than their 2 main competitors.

There was a time not too long ago copa actively matched/competed on price on the routes I use (particularly las-pty), and apparently they just aren't anymore. I am beginning to get the same feeling I usually do when I check WN's fares - still remember them almost always being lowest but now often they are nearly double their competitors, at least in the markets I would use them for.

Am I the only person puzzled by copa high pricing on direct routes from the US to PTY? Once their FF program starts, for platinum/1k members, in theory, a good bit of price difference on, say, las-pty might get made up in mileage, but for MIA-PTY, even a 1k ff will only get a relatively trivial mileage difference vs. UA, and (at present) AA is on the mileage-based reward miles system still.