Asking for a little feedback since I'm ignorant of Panama travel much.
I need to book a flight from Panama City to David, where I'll catch a car service and boat to Isla Palenque.

I don't want to do early morning so I'd be on a Copa flight from PTY which doesn't land until 1700, and then we still need the car and boat transfer to the island. I can do that, but Air Panama has an option from PAC-DAV which lands a couple hours earlier (and a back up flight about the same time as the Copa one). I've read a ton of mixed reviews on the reliability and overall shadiness of Air Panama, and am wondering if that would be a risky move and I should just stick with Copa and travel out to PTY for the flight. Any thoughts?

For the return we're just doing a private helicopter from the island right to PTY, so it's only a one-way issue.