I need to be able to estimate all required costs to take my entire family from the airport here to the airport there. Fortunately, I live in Florida; however, I am still more than an hour away from Orlando. Therefore, all estimates are going to start at Orlando, Florida. The only destination explored will be the Tocumen International Airport in Tocumen, which is located approximately ten-and-a-half miles to the east of Panama City on the Pan American Highway, or Corredor Sur.
Between the United States and Panama City, Panama, The two Panamanian air carriers flying: Copa Airlines and Spirit Airlines. Both offer non-stop flights between Orlando, Florida and Panama City.
I checked with Spirit Airlines <http://www.spirit.com/Default.aspx> for Friday, July 1, 2011. The flight prices increase and decrease based upon historical demand. The interactive graphic, on the Spirit Airlines ticketing site, indicates the best months to fly, one-way, from Orlando to Panama City, on Spirit, appear to be August and September, but, amazingly, there are $134 tickets available every month.
As luck would have it, on July 1, Spirit offers a flight leaving directly from Orlando, Florida for $134 per person, with no child discounts; adding in the taxes results in a total cost of $175.40 per person. For a family of four, that should come to $701.60. The total quoted me on the site is $657.20.
Copa Airlines <http://www.copaair.com/sites/US/en/Pages/homepage.aspx> is the other Panamanian airline. The Copa Airlines website was harder to use. Most of the flights around July 01, 2011 were grayed out as unavailable. I am offered an 8:00 AM flight on June 16 and a 6:30 PM flight on June 20. There’s not much more available, but the seats are only $84 per person for a flight which endures for three hours and fifteen minutes. The total quoted this time was $1060.40.
The actual fare per person is 168.00; plus almost a hundred dollars of taxes each; with no discounts for children 2-11, comes to four times 265.10 or 1,060.40. Wow! It looked good, but turned out badly.
On July 01, 2011, Delta Airlines <http://www.delta.com/> has a flight leaving to Atlanta with a 48 minute layover for $1,157.20.
On July 01, 2011, American Airlines <http://www.aa.com/homePage.do> flies to Miami with an hour layover and a price of $2,077.20.
On July 01, 2011, Continental Airlines <http://www.continental.com/web/en-US/default.aspx>has a stop in Houston with a 49 minute layover for $2.407.20.
Continental Airlines also has non-stop flights straight to Panama City for $3,089.20.
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