Copa Holdings' Consolidated Traffic for June Grows 20.8%

PANAMA CITY, July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA), today released preliminary passenger traffic statistics for June 2012.

For the month of June 2012, Copa Holdings’ system-wide passenger traffic (RPM) increased 20.8% year over year, while capacity increased 26.4%. As a result, system load factor for June 2012 was 73.6%, a 3.4 percentage point decrease when compared to June 2011.

International passenger traffic grew 24.8%, while capacity increased 31.1%. This resulted in a load factor of 73.2%, a 3.7 percentage point decrease when compared to June 2011. For the month, International capacity represented 95.2% of total capacity.

Domestic traffic, represented wholly by Colombian domestic service, decreased 23.1%, while capacity decreased 26.7%. As a result, domestic load factor for the month increased 3.8 percentage points to 82.6%. For the month, domestic capacity represented 4.8% of total capacity.