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Tocumen International Airport

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Panama's largest international air gateway is located at Tocumen International Airport (IATA airport code PTY) in Panama City.

Tocumen is a large facility and center of flights heading to and from the Caribbean, South America, North America and all of Central America. Also, one European city (Madrid) is served. Tocumen is the hub of Panama's international airline, Copa.

On July 2,2004, a Medevac flying from Quito, Ecuador to Washington, D.C. made a stopover at this airport and crashed during the subsequent take off, killing six persons on board and an airport worker.

On August 16,2005, West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 flying from Tocumen to Fort de France, Martinique crashed, killing all 160 people on board.

Airlines

Airlines serving Tocumen include:

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