Panama flight

In November and December, Condor of Germany and Tame of Ecuador, will start  commercial flights from Panama’s Tocumen International Airport.

The Ecuadorian airline will make its first commercial flight to Panama on December 1, whereas the German airline has programed  to fly early November.

Tame will have a frequency of six flights per week, excluding Saturdays and will cover two routes a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Quito to Panama, while on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from Guayaquil to Panama.

The Panamanian market is familiar to Tame, the airline already performed two charter flights to Panama every seven days.

“We realized we had an opportunity to establish weekly flights and hope in the first months an occupation of 75%,” said Maurice Benaim, manager of Tame in Panama.

For its part, the German airline Condor is only waiting for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to give its approval to begin flights to Panama.

The company will have direct flights to Panama from the German city of Frankfurt with a 45-minute stopover in the Dominican Republic.

Besides these two airlines in 2011 Panama is awaiting the arrival of new companies, including Qantas of Australia, who will perform a scale of four days in Havana, Cuba, and then fly to Panama, where passengers will spend another four days, then return to their country. In November, Panama will take the first step to get airlines of the UAE interested in flying to Panama.

Rafael Barcenas, director of AAC, said during the forum hosted by the Latin American Air Transport Association (ALTA) Panama will sign a bilateral agreement with the UAE, which would allow companies such as Emirates Airlines and Flydubai set frequencies that include Panama.

For the next year also has been set the arrival of the Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA), which is awaiting the results of the technical study on their new model Boeing Dreamliner to negotiate with Panama a direct flight between the two countries.

On Saturday October 23 was the first trip of the Dutch Antilles Express Company (DAE) to Panama.

The airline was founded in 2005 will have two flights a week between Curacao and Panama. Floris Van Pollan, CEO of the company, said the airline operates flights to Venezuela, Colombia and the Dominican Republic but said that Panama will be the first Central American destination that the company will cover.

Article courtesy of Estrategia & Negocios

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