Panama City, Panama, July 11, 2014 - Copa Airlines {NYSE: CPA} subsidiary of Copa Holdings, S.A., and a member of Star Alliance, today began nonstop service four times a week from its Hub of the Americas at Tocumen International Airport in Panama to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the airline's fourth destination in Florida, its 10^th in the U.S., and its 67^th destination overall. 

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- Broward County elected officials, Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau and Broward County Aviation/Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport executives joined local tourism and business leaders at a luncheon welcoming Copa Airlines to Greater Fort Lauderdale on March 26. Copa's Senior VP, Commercial and Planning Joseph Mohan and other Copa officials attended.