PANAMA CITY, Panama, May 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA), today released preliminary passenger traffic statistics for April 2017.

For the month of April 2017, Copa Holdings’ system-wide passenger traffic (RPMs) increased 16.5% year over year, while capacity (ASMs) increased 6.3%. As a result, system load factor for April 2017 was 83.4%, a 7.3 percentage point increase when compared to April 2016.