PANAMA CITY - Panama-based airline Copa Holding SA inotarisira kuona kukura kwenhamba yevafambi gore rino sezvo mutakuri anowedzera ndege uye mafambiro endege nehupfumi hweLatin America huri kupora, sekureva kwemukuru mukuru.
Mukuru weCopa, Pedro Heilbron, akataura mubvunzurudzo kuti kambani iyi ichawedzera huwandu hwayo negumi muzana, iine majeti masere eBoeing 10-737, uye kuwedzera huwandu hwendege kuenda kuGuatemala City, Los Angeles, Punta Cana muDominican Republic, uye Sao Paulo.
Anotarisira kuti huwandu hwevatyairi vanotakura zvinhu-kana chikamu chezvigaro zvinogara mundege nekubhadhara vatengi-kukwira kusvika pa76% kubva pa75% muna 2009. Muna Kukadzi, Copa's load factor yaive 81%.
"Tichava nendege dzakawanda, uye dzichazara," akadaro Heilbron. Copa ichatsvagawo kuwedzera huwandu hwenzvimbo dzainoshandira mudunhu "kubva kuCanada kuenda kuArgentina."
Kuburikidza nenzvimbo yayo muPanama Guta, Copa inobhururuka ichienda kumaguta makuru muCentral America, Caribbean, uye South America. Iyo bhizinesi modhi inobvumira mutakuri kushanda yakaderera-density nzira pakati pemaguta eLatin America nendege dzemazuva ese.
"Kana iwe uchida kubhururuka pakati peMaracaibo, Venezuela, neSan Salvador, hauna zvakawanda zvingasarudzwa," akadaro Stephen Trent, muongorori weNew York neCitigroup.
Copa, inovawo muridzi weColombian inotakura vanhu mudzimba yeAero Republica, yakaisa purofiti inosvika mazana maviri nemakumi mana emamiriyoni emadhora muna 240, kubva pamadhora zana nemakumi mapfumbamwe nepfumbamwe muna 2009 apo makambani endege akakuvadzwa nekukwira kwemitengo yemafuta.
Mubairo wendege unosungirwa kukwira sezvo rwendo rwebhizinesi ruchikwira mudunhu, uye kudiwa kwepamusoro kuchabvumira mitengo kukwira, Trent akadaro.
Zvinhu zvinotakura zvinotarisirwawo kubatsirwa kubva pakuenzaniswa kusina simba, sezvo muna May-Chikumi nguva ya2009, iyo A/H1N1 furuwenza kubuda yakaodza mwoyo kufamba.
Trent ine kurudziro yekutenga pamigove yeCopa, ine mutengo wemadhora makumi manomwe, zvichienzaniswa neChishanu kuvhara kwemadhora makumi mashanu neshanu.
Copa's Heilbron akati haaoni chero kutyisidzira kwemakwikwi kubva kundege dzinodhura, kana kubva mukubatanidzwa pakati peColombian airline Avianca neEl Salvador-based airline Grupo Taca.
"Panzvimbo yekuti tive nevakwikwidzi vaviri, ikozvino tichava nemumwe chete," akadaro. Dzvinyiriro pamitengo inogona kutodzikira zvishoma, akawedzera.
Copa inoronga kudyara madhora mazana maviri nemakumi mashanu emamiriyoni gore rino, kunyanya kutenga majeti matsva, uye ine fungidziro yekutanga yekushandisa mari inosvika zviuru zana nemakumi mashanu nesere emamiriyoni emadhora muna 250 nemadhora zana nemakumi mashanu nerimwe e158.
Nendege inowana mari yekutenga nemusanganiswa wekuyerera kwemari uye zvikwereti zvebhanga nemagarandi kubva kuU.S. Export-Import Bank.
Boka revatengesi vePanamani vane chikamu chekutonga muCopa, iyo inotengesa pamusika weNew York. Kambani yekuAmerica yeContinental Airlines Inc. yaive nechikamu chidiki mukambani iyi, asi yakaitengesa mumakore mashoma apfuura.
