Anyone taken COPA?
 

My wife and I are taking COPA:

MIA-Panama City-Lima and back in late Decemeber/Early January.

Any reviews of this airline? Flight? Planes?

We are both DL FO so I've called, had our Skymiles numbers added to the reservation and asked for seat assigments and were told we were given Bulkhead.

Thanks in advance!

I've flown COPA SCL-PTY-SJO and return, in J. Planes are 737s and they're not really set up for flights as long as the 7 hours from Santiago, but with the relatively short legs to Panamá and Lima you'll be OK. Expect about the same service as you'd get on CO. There's good dutyfree at PTY if that's your thing.

We're going to be in Coach.

I assume this means we'll get a hot meal and free alchohol?

There have been other Copa threads recently. Since CM is 49% owned by Continental and uses the Onepass program, the similarities are major.

In fact, if you're CO elite, you will often get upgraded on these flights. As a NW Platinum, I've also been upgraded recently, 1 or 2 days before my flight.

I believe at this point, all of their planes are 737-700 or 737-800. They have signed up for some Embraer planes, but I think those will be a year or two away.

Thanks. My wife and I are both DL Silver, so we probably won't get upgraded, right? :(

We do, so I was told over the phone, have bulkhead seats. I wish I could get an e-mail confirming that so I have it in hand. Could I ask the reservation agent to send me an e-mail of my reservation?

I'll also be on COPA in December, though only on the way back from PTY to IAD (taking CO proper on the way down). Btw, my PTY-CTG-PTY legs are on E170's (one operated by AeroRepublica - looks like "Copa Express", the other not sure, but it looks like COPA itself...). AeroRepublica has the dubious distinction of having crashed the first E170, a brand new plane too...

God forbid. Good luck.

We're confirmed that we are on 737's.

Has anyone used another airlines Frequent Flier Number when flying COPA? How good are they in posting those miles to your account? How long it takes, did you need to call again, etc.?

Thanks!

They post about the same as a normal CO flight. 2-3 days, I think. They credited to my NW account last month, with no problem.

Cool, thanks!

I am taking AeroRepublica using miles around Thanksgiving. I personally had a good experience last time I was on Copa, so I am sure it will transfer over.

Question for Jaimito or anyone else who may know:

If there different availablity on Aerorepublica (Copa) if one is using OnePass miles as opposed to SkyMiles? I am buring SkyMiles because DL is partenered with Avianca, which help getting down there.

The bummer is that (A) it will cost me 7k extra miles since I have to connect through BOG several times and (B) I have long layover at the aiport because the award seats supposedly aren't there for SkyMiles (through they are readily available for OnePass miles.)

Thanks!

Jaimito, do you know if this is an official policy, was it announced anywhere? Or did they just get CO's software, which recognizes NW Elites for upgrades? :)

I asked Scoop in a NW thread, but nothing official on the NW side. Worked fine on 3/4 segments for me. If you don't fly on Mon/Fri, you'll probably do even better.

No chance for DL Medallions, however, right?

No idea. I don't associate with riff-raff. :D

It doesn't even seem to be a published benefit, but you could try it and see what happens.