The movement of passengers through the Tocumen International Airport added its fifth consecutive monthly increase in July, with the traffic of 903,406 people an increase of 152,187 over June, and the airport administration anticipates continued growth as covid vaccination expands worldwide.

Despite this positive trend, the number of passengers that used Tocumen between January and July of this year - just over 4 million people - is still 58.7% below the traffic reported in the same period of 2019.

Rating agencies such as BRC Ratings - S&P Global have estimated that the movement of travelers through Tocumen would be 60% below the numbers of two years ago when the main air terminal in the country reported 16.5 million passengers.

Of the total traffic from January to July 2021, 3.1 million travelers were transit passengers who arrived in Tocumen to board one of the connections that remain active.

Tocumen currently offers direct connections with 65 cities in 31 countries in America and Europe, through 19 airlines. Before the pandemic, connections totaled 89 destinations in 39 countries.

The rebound in positive cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) has led authorities in Brazil, Argentina, and China to keep destinations that previously had a direct connection from Panama closed.

In its monthly report, Tocumen informs that in July 8,274 air operations were carried out between takeoffs and landings, being the cities of Miami and Orlando (United States), Cancun (Mexico), Bogotá (Colombia), and Guayaquil (Ecuador).