For years, Panama-based Copa Airlines used United MileagePlus as their loyalty program, which goes back to Continental having a stake in them. However, in 2015 Copa decided to launch their own ConnectMiles program, which very closely mirrored MileagePlus.
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I have a 10,000 mile roundtrip flight with Copa (booked in T class) coming up in April and have been debating which program to credit the miles to. They give the option of Alaska, but I don't see Copa listed as a partner of theirs. Any thoughts on best value options?
Copa redemptions seem to focus on the Americas, especially the Central America area. Redemptions on *A European airlines from say, JFK to any European destination are hard to find, especially in premium classes. Unless this changes I am not a buyer of their miles.
This program stinks. I left United's Mileage Plus at the end of 2015 because COPA supposely let you earn miles by miles and not by ticket fare, well this happens only when you flight COPA then when flying Star Alliance partners they didn't acrue miles to you account because of the fare but they even didn't acrue the flight segments !. So I had nothing at all from more than 12 long haul flights segments made with Lufthansa, Swiss, Bruxelles and other Star Alliance partners (enough to keep my premier status). They took 3 months just to reply so the customer
service is slow like a turtle. I'm even claiming to Star Alliance because COPA did not recognize their dlight with other group partner airlines.
The evolution of Copa's rewards/awards program is glacially slow. Either their search engine for anything other than Central American award flights (in Y) is simply crap, or the Star Alliance partners are just feeding them scraps after dishing out the best flights to the more established partners. If your flight horizons are loftier than pottering around central/south America in Y, then you should very carefully consider whether buying Copa miles is worthwhile for you.
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