Copa Airlines, subsidiary of Copa Holdings, announced it has secured a financing commitment by the Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO) to finance the purchase of two Boeing 737-800 aircraft for which preliminary commitments for comprehensive, long-term Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) guarantees have been obtained.

Passengers choosing to take a trip to Barbados with bmi now have more choice of when to depart as the airline’s direct service from Manchester has been increased to three times a week.

Delta Air Lines continues to move forward with plans to expand service to Colombia with new service to Cali and Medellin from the world’s largest passenger hub in Atlanta, and also between Bogota and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Continental Airlines submitted its application to the Department of Transportation (DOT) to be the first-ever U.S. carrier to provide daily, overnight service between Houston and Bogota, Colombia, to arrive in each city in the early morning and depart each city late at night.

The low-cost airline Frontier on Friday morning flew its first flight from Denver to Costa Rica, its tenth destination outside the U.S. Denver-Costa Rica flights will operate four times a week until January 5, when Frontier will expand the service to include a fifth flight on Saturdays.

JetBlue’s winter schedule to the Caribbean calls for as many as 220 weekly roundtrip flights to 11 tropical destinations, which represents a 46 percent growth in seats over last winter’s schedule, according to Jim Fuoco, manager of route planning.