 Copa Airlines - Destinations: Encyclopedia II - Copa Airlines - HistoryThe airline was established on 21 June 1944 and started operations on 5 May 1947. It was founded with assistance from Pan American, which took a 32% stake. It began operations with a small fleet of Douglas DC-3/Douglas C-47 aircraft. The airline saw its first international service in the 1960s, when services were inaugurated to cities in Jamaica, Colombia, and Costa Rica. It became wholly Panamanian owned in 1972.
Until the early 1980s, the airline had stiff competition from Air Panama, until then a better known airline to the interna ...
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