Route brief · AUH → PTY
Abu Dhabi → Panama City
$1,667
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 4 – Dec 18 · 14 nights
Etihad2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPTYPanama CitySkyline on one side, colonial casco on the other, and Copa’s hub making Latin America cheap to reach.Best windowDec–AprAirportsTocumen (PTY)All routes into Panama CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Panama City: Dec–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,667 for 13,784 km each way, that works out to about $60 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Panama City, this fare ranks 9th — 1.9× the $862 we hold from Istanbul. For context, the middle fare among the 20 routes of similar length we watch out of Abu Dhabi is $1,320. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 20 — $1,716 then versus $1,669 now, across 3 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $1,667, on Dec 4.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Zayed International (AUH) ↔ Tocumen (PTY)
- Flight time
- ~20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~13,784 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
AUH → PTY, answered.
How far in advance should I book AUH → Panama City?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Abu Dhabi to Panama City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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