How To Redeem Miles For Copa Business Class

@Lucky I flew J class AUA-PTY-LAS, just a few days ago. and your initial assessment of Copa was spot on. I was on the standard J seats on the first leg, and then the "Dream" seats for the longer leg. I would fly them again, simply for the convenience and price. It was only 35,000 UAL miles for this routing. The food was meh, the entertainment offering was adequate, the seat was perfect on the 2nd leg. The Copa Club in PTY was nothing special. Both of their locations are also PP Clubs. But it was a nice escape from the craziness of the terminal.

So far in my experience the Copa availability via Flying Blue seems to have been phantom space. Every single time I've got to the payment page I've received an error and the very fairly priced award space has disappeared. Has anyone else experienced this?

Yes, I have tried dozens of times and have NEVER been able to book a Copa award via Flying Blue. Same error message each time.

Don't transfer credit card points to Flying Blue in hopes of booking Copa business class; it's all phantom.

Same issue I just had this week! This article needs to be updated asap. This award availability on flying blue is complete BS! I transferred a bunch of miles to flying blue to try and book copa business class as the other comments have mentioned and it is pure phantom availability. I even called flying blue to have them assist and even they got the same error message! DO NOT TRANSFER FLYING BLUE MILES if you want to book copa.

Here is another one! LIFEMILES they suck, they keep sending me to economy Hell when you SELECT "J" . Bought 300K at 200% Promo when OMAAT was pushing it. Any suggestions/ Flyertalk has nothing nice to say about them either, same complaints.

I use Lifemiles to book Copa business from Central America to Uruguay and Argentina 2x/year for 40,000 miles each way, less than Aeroplan.

Copa, nor their PTY hub, are great experiences - but it's the best option in my use case.