The sector is held by Copa Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LIM Lima to PTY Panama City
Jorge Chavez International, Peru, to Tocumen International, Panama. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 8.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,359 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 31m
- Door to door
- 10h 16m
What LIM to PTY looks like
The LIM to PTY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lima LIM to Panama City PTY is a medium haul sector of 2,359 km by great circle, flown nonstop 8.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,359 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 31m.
Lima LIM is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 67 scheduled destinations and 306.4 departures a day. Panama City PTY has 89 destinations and 246.3 departures a day.
Lima and Panama City keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on LIM to PTY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIM to PTY | 8.29 | 58 | Copa Airlines |
| PTY to LIM | 8.29 | 58 | Copa Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Copa Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 8.3 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 116.1 departures a week on LIM to PTY, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 3h 31m block time on LIM to PTY. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to LIM | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LIM before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LIM to PTY in the air, estimated | 211 min | 8h 01m |
| Formalities at PTY | 90 min | 9h 31m |
| Delivery run in Panama City | 45 min | 10h 16m |
| Door to door | 616 min | 10h 16m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for LIM to PTY is 10h 16m.
A courier who leaves Lima at 09:00 local is on the ground in Panama City at about 12:31 local and at the door by 14:46 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Panama City, the last useful departure from Lima is around 12:14 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 34 of them join LIM to PTY.
| Connecting at | LIM to hub, flights a day | Hub to PTY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quito UIO | 3 | 7.43 | 2,359 | 5h 01m |
| Guayaquil GYE | 2.43 | 6.86 | 2,389 | 5h 03m |
| Medellin MDE | 2.29 | 9.14 | 2,574 | 5h 24m |
| Bogota BOG | 9.86 | 16.29 | 2,643 | 5h 47m |
| Cartagena CTG | 1.57 | 5.29 | 2,955 | 5h 52m |
| San Jose SJO | 1.14 | 12 | 3,110 | 6h 05m |
With 8.3 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
34 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Quito UIO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3 times a day.
Through UIO the routing covers 2,359 km against the 2,359 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 01m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 30m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Guayaquil GYE at 5h 03m and Medellin MDE at 5h 24m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Lima to Panama City yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for LIM to PTY in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The LIM airport entry
- The PTY airport entry
- Hand carry into Peru
- Hand carry into Panama
- The route calculator
More pairs through LIM and PTY: Lima to Sao Paulo, Lima to Bogota, Lima to Santiago, Lima to Miami, Buenos Aires to Lima, Lima to Mexico City, Buenos Aires to Lima, Sao Paulo to Panama City.