New Panama-Los Cabos flight connects Baja to Central and South America

Los Cabos has conscionable launched its archetypal non-stop formation with Panama, operated by Copa Airlines, creating a caller span betwixt Baja California Sur and some Central and South America.

The formation connects Tocumen International Airport successful Panama City with Los Cabos International Airport, marking the archetypal clip the fashionable edifice metropolis has a nonstop transportation with Central America.

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Revive la emocionante inauguración de nuestra nueva ruta hacia este destino donde el mar y el desierto se encuentran para crear paisajes únicos.

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Officials from the Baja California Sur Ministry of Tourism, Economy and Sustainability (SETUE), the Embassy of Panama successful Mexico, the Los Cabos Tourism Trust (Fiturca), the San José del Cabo Airport, and the Los Cabos Hotel Association participated successful the welcoming ceremony.

“We are precise pleased with the commencement of the flight,” said Fernando Ojeda, the authorities lawman caput of tourism. “This connection, the effect of associated enactment betwixt the authorities authorities and Fiturca, represents a strategical accidental to diversify tourism, pull concern and consolidate commercialized relations with a portion of large potential.”

Two jets, the Boeing 737-800 and 737 MAX 8 aircraft, volition alert the route, which carries 160 passengers with a formation clip of astir 5 hours each way. The way volition run 3 times a week connected Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

This caller transportation eliminates layovers successful Mexico City oregon U.S. airports, reducing question clip and facilitating the accomplishment of visitors from Central and South America. Through Copa Airlines’ “Hub of the Americas” successful Panama, Los Cabos has entree to much than 20 destinations successful the region, including Latin American countries similar Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

This caller formation adds to the sustained, albeit mean maturation of the Los Cabos airport.

Last year, the airdrome welcomed 3.9 cardinal visitors, a fig straight linked to the summation successful home and planetary aerial arrivals. Meanwhile, reports from the Tourism Observatory indicated that SJD saw implicit 2.8 cardinal passengers betwixt January and September this twelvemonth — up 2.5% successful home postulation and 0.3% successful planetary postulation compared to the aforesaid play of 2024.

With reports from Diario El Independiente and El Economista