Good News for Canadian Travellers to Panama
sduford on Jun 26 2008 at 9:18 am | Filed under: Aviation, Panama, Travel
We got two good news items this week for Canadians who travel to Panama regularly like myself.
The first one was that Continental Airlines is joining Star Alliance. This means that will be able to buy connecting flights between Air Canada and Continental, opening up many new possibilities for flying to Panama. This also means that we will finally be able to collect or use Aeroplan points to travel to Panama, given that I have nearly 1 million Aeroplan points, this is great news for me. Now it remains to be seen whether or not COPA (Panama’s airline) which is partly owned by Continental will also follow suit. They might not as they have a code share agreement with KLM/Air France.
The second good news is that Canada and Panama have finally resolved their differences over access to each other’s airports. This means that Air Canada should finally be able to begin the long-rumoured direct flights to Panama City soon. Perhaps COPA might also implement direct flights to Toronto.
That’s great news for you, and fellow Canadians!
One can’t beat direct flights.
Hope your building work is going well. It was starting to really take shape with what was visible in those last pictures.
All my best.