Who owns ConnectMiles?
ConnectMiles is owned by Copa (Panama, NYSE: CPA).[1]
Evidence: Copa Holdings, S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-02-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Copa Holdings, S.A. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇵🇦 Panama, Panama City
- Origin
- 🇵🇦 Panama
- Founded
- 2015
- Category
- Travel & transport › Airlines
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: CPA
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About ConnectMiles
ConnectMiles is Copa's own frequent-flyer programme, launched in July 2015 when the airline stopped co-branding United's MileagePlus in Latin America in order to hold the customer relationship itself. Miles can be earned and spent across the 25 Star Alliance carriers and their 1,150 destinations, so leaving United's programme did not cost members the network, and banks buy miles too: Banco General paid Copa $33.3 million for them in 2025. Unredeemed miles are a real liability — $155.6 million of frequent-flyer deferred revenue sat on the balance sheet at the end of 2025.
What Copa's annual report says about ConnectMiles
Sentences about ConnectMiles from Copa's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In July 2015, we elected to cease co-branding the MileagePlus frequent flyer program in Latin America and launched our own frequent flyer program, ConnectMiles.
In addition, the excellent response to our new loyalty program, ConnectMiles, demonstrates the strong affinity Copa customers have for the brand.
We 28 Table of Contents will continue to reward our customer loyalty with, ConnectMiles awards, upgrades and access to our Copa Club lounges.
How often Copa names ConnectMiles in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of ConnectMiles
Where ConnectMiles sits in Copa
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- ConnectMiles
- Copa Airlines (99.9%)
- Copa Airlines Colombia (99.9%)
- Wingo
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Other brands owned by Copa
Copa controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in travel & transport.
Also in travel & transport
- Copa Airlines (1947)
- Copa Airlines Colombia
- Wingo (2016)
Other brands in airlines, and who owns them
The 509 brands in airlines on Brandtree belong to 341 owners. The largest is Lufthansa Group, with 10; Copa has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Air Dolomiti | Lufthansa Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| China Southern Airlines | China Southern Airlines | 🇨🇳 China |
| Air China | Air China | 🇨🇳 China |
| Aer Lingus | IAG | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| LATAM Airlines Brasil | LATAM | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Air France | Air France-KLM | 🇫🇷 France |
| AirAsia | AirAsia X | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Calm Air | Exchange Income | 🇨🇦 Canada |
About the owner: Copa
Copa is a publicly listed company headquartered in Panama City, Panama, founded in 1998. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: CPA.
Copa Holdings is the Panamanian holding company for Copa Airlines and the low-cost brand Wingo, incorporated on 6 May 1998 to allow CIASA to sell a 49 per cent stake in the airline to Continental Airlines. Continental sold its last shares in 2008; CIASA still holds all the Class B voting shares and 26.6 per cent of the capital, and the rest trades on the New York Stock Exchange after a December 2005 listing. The group flew 125 Boeing aircraft at the end of 2025, offers about 436 daily flights to 84 destinations in 32 countries from its Panama City hub, and reported revenue of $3.6 billion and an operating profit of $819.0 million for the year.
🇵🇦 ConnectMiles and other Panamanian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 13 brands that began in Panama. 5 of them (38%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; ConnectMiles is not one of them.
- Air Panama — Air Panama 🇵🇦
- Alimentos Melo — Grupo Melo 🇵🇦
- Banistmo — Grupo Cibest 🇨🇴
- Inteligo — IFS 🇵🇪
- La Chiricana — Dos Pinos 🇨🇷
- Toledano — CMI 🇬🇹
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of ConnectMiles?
The parent company of ConnectMiles is Copa, a publicly listed company headquartered in Panama.
Is ConnectMiles Panamanian?
Yes. ConnectMiles originated in Panama in 2015 and its owner, Copa, is also headquartered in Panama.
Is ConnectMiles still owned by Copa?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, ConnectMiles is still owned by Copa. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Copa Holdings, S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-02-26 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 26 February 2026; retrieved 22 September 2026.
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