After spending twelve magnificent days in sunny Puerto Vallarta is moment to say goodbye.
Copa Airlines flies Thursdays and Sundays to Puerto Vallarta from The Hub of the Americas in Tocumén.
The view from deluxe room at Krystal Puerto Vallarta.
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz Airport is a huge place almost as big as CUN. Lots of planes for US and Canada carriers, plus the local airlines
An United Embraer with a Delta A320 in the back
It´s Lunch time at PVR!
Copa departs from the same area as North America airlines
With a lot of time before my flight, I bought one of my favourites magazines
We embark by remote position along Alaska Airlines flight to Seattle via Santa Ana, both planes are parked alongside too
What´s this?! AC y TS boarding alongside. This could be a future merger?! Both widebodies are parked together at the far end of the airport
Air Transat´s 332 to Montreal Trudeau YUL and Air Canada Rouge´s 763 to Toronto Pearson YYZ, these guys love their hometown, so they gave a little tribute!
Time to catch my bird with a nice A32 parked beside CM´s 737
Domestic terminal at PVR
Fuselage shot
Last photo of our neighbor
Emergency exit row for me, at no extra charge and nobody at the middle seat.
PTV showing images of Puerrto Vallarta
View from the window
We´re flying! Nice view of Riviera Nayarit, Nuevo Vallarta and the beatiful Banderas´Bay
A lunch is serve when we are at cruising altitude:
Chicken or pasta. The raviolis are great and spicy, with a Balboa beer for me
Afternoon views, just clouds
Mood lightning
Near the arrival in PTY
Tocumen airport, home of Copa, The hub of The Americas, sorry for the blurry photos
A special tag is added to the baggage tag, to remark that the luggage doesn´t go to another flight
I had to wait twenty hours for my flight to my hometown Rosario, so I went to nearby hotel to take a break. that flight is for the next FR
Qué bonito Puerto Vallarta! Me alegra que hayas tenido unas buenas vacaciones. El almuerzo a bordo se ve muy bien! Quizás la porción es un poco pequeña? Sea como sea, lo encuentro mejor que latam, que es mi punto de referencia. Parece que Copa es de las pocas líneas aéreas que todavía valen la pena a este lado del mundo.
Qué lata tener que esperar 20 horas por tu conexión!
Gracias por compartir, Fernando! :)
No te apures Nelson, falta el otro FR, jajjaa!
Hola Fernando, gracias por compartir este buen reporte! It brings back good memories as I loved Puerto Vallarta. It's nice that CM is flying this route. Really decent service for Economy on a 4h flight with a nice cabin, PTVs, and a hot meal. It's too bad there are problems with the 737 MAX because CM's new full flat Business class on the MAX jets is really competitive and they offer good fares between North and South American in Business.
Hi Kevin thanks for your comments; Copa offers a good inboard service, and great puntuality. I saw the MAX9 parked at PTY, the airline magazine says they only have one aircraft.
COPA definitely runs an efficient hub out of PTY, which is perfectly located for those North <-> South flows.
Hmm...I think the magazine was wrong, according to Airfleets, they have 6 737 MAX 9 in the fleet: https://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/COPA%20Airlines.htm
Yes Kevin, I read the same information: CM has 6 MAX9 according to air fleets