It's silly that Copa's website defaults to basic whenever you do multi-city.

One solution I found is to go on sites like Expedia and do the multi-city booking and select copa. On Expedia, they give you the option to upgrade to classic economy.


I honestly think this is a better solution then booking basic and calling back to speak with agent to upgrade to classic. On a couple of occasions, I had called Copa to book the multi-city booking on classic, and shockingly those specific agents were only to see basic economy fares. It seemed that they had no knowledge of how to look for classic fares for multi-city. I felt annoyed as I had waited on the call for some time only to get agents who could not do more than what I could do on my own on Copa's website.

Try Expedia and see how it goes.