Who owns Wingo?
Wingo 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
- 🇨🇴 Colombia
- Founded
- 2016
- Category
- Travel & transport › Airlines
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: CPA
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Wingo
Wingo is the low-cost brand Copa launched in December 2016 to compete with the budget carriers moving into its markets. It is not an airline in its own right: it holds no operating certificate and is run by AeroRepública, the group's Colombian carrier, with its own commercial, distribution and customer-service structure. At the end of 2025 it flew ten Boeing 737-800s in a single class of 186 seats, the fleet having moved up from 737-700s because the larger aircraft carry more people for less.
What Copa's annual report says about Wingo
Sentences about Wingo from Copa's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In December 2016, we launched a low-cost business model, Wingo, to diversify our offerings and to better compete with other low-cost carriers, or "LCCs," in the market.
We may not realize benefits from Wingo, our low-cost business model.
Wingo is our low-cost business model, which is operated by AeroRep blica, S.A. In 2021, we expanded operations by incorporating a new operator based in Panama, La Nueva Aerol nea S.A., which began operating under the Wingo brand in the third quarter of 2023.
How often Copa names Wingo 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 Wingo
Where Wingo 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
- ConnectMiles (2015)
- Copa Airlines (1947)
- Copa Airlines Colombia
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.
🇨🇴 Wingo and other Colombian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 108 brands that began in Colombia. 10 of them (9%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Wingo among them.
- Airplan — ASUR 🇲🇽
- Avianca — Abra 🇬🇧
- Coordinadora — Coordinadora 🇨🇴
- LATAM Airlines Colombia — LATAM 🇨🇱
- SATENA — SATENA 🇨🇴
- Searca — Searca 🇨🇴
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Wingo?
The parent company of Wingo is Copa, a publicly listed company headquartered in Panama.
Is Wingo Colombian or Panamanian?
Wingo originated in Colombia in 2016, but it is owned today by Copa, which is headquartered in Panama. So Wingo is a Colombian-origin brand under Panamanian ownership.
Is Wingo still owned by Copa?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Wingo 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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