Copa Holdings Announces Monthly Traffic Statistics for August

Copa Holdings, S.A. CPA, and its Copa Airlines and Aero Republica operating subsidiaries, today released preliminary passenger traffic statistics for August 2010: For the month of August 2010, Copa Holdings' system-wide passenger traffic increased 12.2%, while capacity increased 13.5%. System load factor for August 2010 was 75.0%, a 0.9 percentage point decrease when compared to August 2009. Copa Airlines passenger traffic for August 2010 increased 13.5%, while capacity increased 15.0%. This resulted in a load factor of 75.2%, a 1.0 percentage point decrease when compared to August 2009. Aero Republica passenger traffic for August 2010 increased 4.9%., while capacity increased 5.5%. Load factor for the month reached 74.4%, a 0.4 percentage point decrease when compared to August 2009.