Panama City (PTY) to San José (SJO): 335 miles (539 km) great-circle, about 1h 10m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $288 round-trip on Copa, nonstop, departing May 29, 2026.
$288 round-trip, Copa CM787, departing 2026-05-29 at 06:46, returning 2026-06-05. The recorded itinerary left on a Friday, returning on a Friday 7 nights later; the fare was observed 34 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $288, it was the cheapest of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from PTY (median $593). That is 86.0 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), above the PTY median of 31.9 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from PTY of similar length: Barranquilla (337 mi) at $402 and Bogota (469 mi) at $293.
Copa had the cheapest fare on 14 of 30 PTY routes. It is the 29th longest of the 30 routes we track from PTY.
Of 2 departure airports with a fare to San José, Panama City (PTY) ranked 1st at $288. Lowest: $288 from Panama City (PTY); highest: $496 from Denver (DEN); 1 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Copa (1) and United Airlines (1).
The reverse, San José (SJO) to Panama City (PTY), was $300 round-trip on Avianca, nonstop, departing June 11, 2026. San José to Panama City flights.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones America/Panama, America/Costa_Rica; flight time is our estimate.