Route brief · LON → PTY
London → Panama City
$1,062
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 26 – Jan 16 '27 · 21 nights
United1 stop
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 one stop and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 21-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,062 for 8,493 km each way, that works out to about $63 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Panama City, this fare ranks 10th — 45% above the $734 from Madrid. For context, the middle fare among the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of London is $661. We have 1 month 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 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Tocumen (PTY)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,493 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
LON → PTY, answered.
How far in advance should I book LON → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 London to Panama City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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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