Copa Holdings Announces Monthly Traffic Statistics for July 2012

PANAMA CITY, Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA), today released preliminary passenger traffic statistics for July 2012.

For the month of July 2012, Copa Holdings’ system-wide passenger traffic (RPM) increased 20.4% year over year, while capacity increased 27.5%. As a result, system load factor for July 2012 was 78.6%, a 4.6 percentage point decrease when compared to July 2011.

International passenger traffic grew 22.4%, while capacity increased 29.8%. This resulted in a load factor of 78.4%, a 4.8 percentage point decrease when compared to July 2011. For the month, International capacity represented 95.5% of total capacity.

Domestic traffic, represented wholly by Colombian domestic service, decreased 8.4%, while capacity decreased 7.8%. As a result, domestic load factor for the month decreased 0.6 percentage points to 83.0%. For the month, domestic capacity represented 4.5% of total capacity.