Jan
23
I just received this email related to a new schedule for the AeroPerlas flights between David and Panama. Also there is an announcement about the flight from David to Boca.
Estimados clientes:
A partir del 26 de enero les ofrecemos un nuevo horario:
DAV PAC: 7:55 am (lunes a domingo) (Monday through Sunday)
12:55 pm (lunes a sabado) [...]
Tags: Airport, Tourist Related
Travel Related
May
31
The accident yesterday in Tegucigalpa, Honduras was tragic, but it appears to me that landing there isn’t that easy in the best of weather. If it is raining and foggy, then the difficulty increases.
Here is a video I found on YouTube showing the approach that is required to land in Tegucigalpa. Imagine a rain filled [...]
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Panama Journal
Feb
26
On February 18, 2008, TACA had its inaugural flight to David, beginning a service that will allow travelers to come to David without spending the night in Panama City. I was fortunate enough to have an invitation to this event, and what an event it was. The first thing I noticed, when I entered the [...]
Tags: Airport, Videos
Panama Journal
Jan
20
I received a nice email, related to the post I did on the new TACA flights to and from David. The following contains the parts of the email, which I think will be of interest to you.
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Jan
10
While I was waiting for a flight to come in from Panama City, I watched a couple landings, I have seen before.
First was this helicopter.
The second was this private jet.
I asked some of the AeroPerlas employees about the private jet and they told me that private jets have been coming in a lot. Many from [...]
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Panama Journal
Oct
13
I happened to be at the airport this morning and caught some photos of these two birds.
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Sep
18
There have been several posts on the Yahoo groups recently asking the status of Copa coming to David. This is an update to a previous post in Chiriquí Chatter.
I wrote a friend of mine, Wee-Mingh Fung, who is the President of the Chiriquí Chamber of Tourism and asked him if he had any news related [...]
Tags: Airport
Travel Related
May
08
Yesterday Sofia and her Nanny flew back to Panama City. Here is a photo of Sofia and her Nanny boarding the plane.
If you look real close, you can see Sofia waving goodbye out of the rear window. Well I thought it was Sofia anyway.
Tags: Airport, Children
Panama Journal
Apr
12
I had to go to the airport today and it has been a while since I was there last. The car rental building has made a lot of progress and it doesn’t look that far away from opening.
The most interesting part of going to the airport today was that the main road going to the [...]
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Apr
06
I have mixed emotions about David’s airport initiating flights to the US. The first flight that has been announced is a Copa flight from Florida to David. The initial flights will be using planes in the 737 class until the runways are enlarged for the larger class planes.
For many, this may be looked at as [...]
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