Emirates still bets on Panama for Latin America foothold
Emirates is still planning for Panama to be its foothold into Latin America despite having twice deferred launching flights after it failed to gain approval from regional govts to code-share with a local airline. Emirates in March put its plans to set up a Panama hub connecting Latin American cities with Asia on hold after just 3 or 4 out of 13 South America govts approved codeshares with Copa Airlines. “We do not consider an alternative to Panama. We are still working on … this code-share agreement,” Thierry Antinori, Emirates executive VP and CCO, said Sunday. Panama would be Emirates’ fourth destination in Latin America after Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil and Buenos Aires in Argentina. Emirates has said it would now launch flights to Panama at the end of 2016 or in early 2017. <br/>
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Emirates still bets on Panama for Latin America foothold
Emirates is still planning for Panama to be its foothold into Latin America despite having twice deferred launching flights after it failed to gain approval from regional govts to code-share with a local airline. Emirates in March put its plans to set up a Panama hub connecting Latin American cities with Asia on hold after just 3 or 4 out of 13 South America govts approved codeshares with Copa Airlines. “We do not consider an alternative to Panama. We are still working on … this code-share agreement,” Thierry Antinori, Emirates executive VP and CCO, said Sunday. Panama would be Emirates’ fourth destination in Latin America after Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil and Buenos Aires in Argentina. Emirates has said it would now launch flights to Panama at the end of 2016 or in early 2017. <br/>
