Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Copa Holdings fourth quarter earnings call.
During the presentation, all participants will be in listen-only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct a question-and-answer session.
At that time, if you have a question, you will have to press *11 on your touch-tone phone. As a reminder, this call is being webcast and recorded on February 12th, 2026.
Now I will turn the conference call over to Daniel Tapia, Director of Investor Relations. Sir, you may begin.
Daniel Tapia
Thank you, Marvin. Welcome everyone to our fourth quarter and full year earnings call.
Joining me today are Mr. Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Holdings, and Peter Donkersloot, our CFO.
First, Pedro will go to our fourth quarter and full year highlights, followed by Peter, who will discuss our financial results in more detail. Immediately after, we will open the call for questions from analysts.
As a reminder, Copa Holdings financial reports have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. In today's call, we will discuss certain non-IFRS financial measures.
A reconciliation of these measures to comparable IFRS measures can be found in our earnings release, which is available on our website. Our discussion today will also contain forward-looking statements, not limited to historical facts, that reflect the company's current beliefs, expectations, and/or intentions regarding future events and results.
These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and are based on assumptions subject to change. Many of these are discussed in our annual report filed with the SEC.
Now I'd like to turn the call over to our CEO, Mr. Pedro Heilbron.
Pedro Heilbron
Thank you, Daniel. Good morning and thank you for joining us for our fourth quarter earnings call.
Before we begin, I want to recognize our more than 8,000 co-workers. Their hard work and commitment are fundamental to Copa's strong operational performance and continued leadership in our industry.
To them, as always, my sincere appreciation and respect. We delivered another quarter and full year of strong financial and operational results, reaffirming the strength of our business model and the structural advantage of operating the best positioned and most efficient hub for international travel in the Americas.
Our results reflect strong demand trends across the region, continued discipline in our cost execution, and our relentless focus on operational excellence. As a testament to our operational performance, in January, Copa Airlines was recognized by Cirium for the 11th time as the most on-time airline in Latin America in 2025, with an on-time performance of 90.75%, the highest of any carrier in the Americas and the second best in the world.
Once again, I want to recognize our Copa team. Without their commitment and dedication, it would not be possible to consistently deliver this level of excellence, which our customers expect from us.
Now I'll go over our fourth quarter highlights. We increased capacity by 9.9% year-over-year, while passenger traffic increased by 10.1%.
As a result, our load factor increased 0.2 percentage points to 86.4%. RASM came in at 11.3 cents, flat versus fourth quarter '24.
We reported CASM of 8.8 cents and an ex-fuel CASM of 5.9 cents, a 1.6% and 0.7% year-over-year increase respectively. Excluding a $7.2 million non-cash adjustment to the provision for future lease return obligations, ex-fuel CASM for the quarter would have been 5.8 cents.
Operating margin came in at 21.8%. Excluding the non-cash maintenance adjustment, we would have reported an operating margin of 22.5%.
Turning now to the main highlights for the full year 2025. Capacity in ASMs grew 7.8% year-over-year, while passenger traffic measured in RPMs increased by 8.6%.
As a result, our load factor increased 0.7 percentage points to 87%. Unit revenues, or RASM, decreased 2.6% to 11.2 cents.
Unit costs, or CASM, decreased 3.6% to 8.6 cents, and CASM excluding fuel decreased 0.7% to 5.8 cents. As mentioned before, we delivered full-year operating margin of 22.6%.
Turning now to our network. Between December and January, we started service from our Hub of the Americas in Panama to Los Cabos, Mexico, Puerto Plata and Santiago in the Dominican Republic, Maracaibo in Venezuela, and Salvador da Bahia in Brazil, further strengthening our position as the most complete and convenient connecting hub for travel within the Americas.
Regarding our fleet, during the quarter we took delivery of 4 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft and ended the year with a total of 125 aircraft. Earlier this year, Boeing updated the fleet delivery schedule for 2026, and we now anticipate adding 8 Boeing 737 MAX 8s this year and now expect to end the year with a total fleet of 133 aircraft.
We continue to see a strong demand environment across our network as we enter 2026. Booking trends remain solid, supported by healthy travel activity throughout the region, which allow us to leverage the advantages of our Hub of the Americas.
The current demand environment gives us confidence in our growth plan and reinforces the foundation for another year of strong margins in 2026. Consistent with the guidance shared in our earnings release, we expect to grow capacity in the range of 11% to 13% in the year.
As detailed in December at our Investor Day, approximately half of the growth is the full-year impact of capacity added in 2025, with an additional 40% coming from added frequencies in existing markets and the remaining 10% from new destinations. To summarize, we delivered strong fourth quarter and full-year results for 2025.
Copa was recognized for the 11th time by Cirium as the most on-time airline in Latin America and second best in the world. We continue to improve our already low and competitive cost structure, which remains a core pillar of our business model.
We continue expanding our network, adding frequencies and new cities to our Hub of the Americas. We're well positioned to deliver another year of profitable growth and strong margins in 2026.
Now I'll turn the call over to Peter, who will walk us through the financials in more detail.
Peter Donkersloot
Thank you, Pedro. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining the call today.
I'd like to start by reinforcing Pedro's recognition of our team's continued dedication to delivering industry-leading results. Their commitment remains essential to our strong operational and financial performance.
Let me begin by going over the fourth quarter highlights. We reported a net profit for the quarter of $172.6 million, or $4.18 per share, a 5.3% increase in earnings per share compared to fourth quarter 2024.
Operating profit came in at $209.6 million, and we delivered an operating margin of 21.8% for the quarter. I would like to highlight that our fourth quarter results include a $7.2 million non-cash adjustment in the maintenance, materials, and repairs line related to the provision for future lease aircraft return obligations.
This adjustment was driven by a reduction in the discount rate used to calculate the present value of expected end-of-lease costs as the applicable reference rate declined during the period. Additionally, during the quarter, we reported a foreign currency loss of $6 million, mainly as a result of the devaluation of the Brazilian real, which has since recovered in early 2026.
Excluding these two items, we would have reported a net profit for the quarter of $184.1 million, or $4.46 per share, and we would have reported an operating profit of $216.8 million and an operating margin of 22.5%. With regards to our cost for the quarter, unit cost, or CASM, decreased 1.6% year-over-year to 8.8 cents, and CASM excluding fuel increased 0.7% year-over-year to 5.9 cents.
Excluding the non-cash maintenance-related adjustment, we would have reported an ex-fuel CASM of 5.8 cents, flat year-over-year. Moving on to our full-year 2025 financial highlights.
We reported a net profit of $671.6 million, or $16.28 per share, which represented an 11.9% year-over-year increase in earnings per share. Operating income reached $819 million, 8.8% higher year-over-year.
Operating margins came in at 22.6%, 0.8 percentage points higher than in 2024. Our consistent delivery of industry-leading operating margins underscores the strength of our business model and disciplined execution.
Now I'd like to spend some time discussing our balance sheet and liquidity. As of the end of the fourth quarter, total cash, short-term, and long-term investments stood at $1.6 billion, representing 44% of last 12-month revenues.
Further demonstrating our financial strength and flexibility, we also have approximately $500 million in pre-delivery deposits, and we currently have 47 unencumbered aircraft in our fleet. Total debt stood at $2.3 billion, and we ended the quarter with an adjusted net debt-to-EBITDA ratio of 0.6 times, reflecting our strong financial position.
I'd like to highlight that our average cost of debt comprised solely of aircraft-related financing remains highly competitive at 3.6%. Turning now to return of value to our shareholders.
I am pleased to announce that for 2026, the Board of Directors has approved a quarterly dividend payment of $1.71 per share to be paid in March, June, September, and December, subject to board ratification each quarter. The first quarterly payment will be made on March 13th to all shareholders of record as of February 27th.
Finally, turning to our outlook. We can provide the following guidance for the full year 2026.
We expect to increase our capacity in ASMs within a range of 11% to 13% year-over-year. As Pedro shared earlier, around 90% of this growth comes from the full-year impact of capacity added in 2025 and additional frequencies in existing markets.
We expect to deliver an operating margin within the range of 22% to 24%. We are basing our outlook on the following assumptions: a load factor of approximately 87%, unit revenues of approximately 11.2 cents, CASM ex-fuel of approximately 5.7 cents, consistent with our long-term target of delivering a CASM ex-fuel of 5.6 cents by 2028, and we're expecting an all-in fuel price of $2.50 per gallon.
Thank you, and we'll now open the call for questions from the analysts.
Operator
Thank you. At this time, we will conduct a question-and-answer session.
As a reminder to ask a question, you will need to press *11 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press *11 again.
Please limit yourself to one question and a follow-up. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster.
Our first question comes from the line of Savi Syth of Raymond James. Your line is now open.
Savi Syth
Hey, good morning. Just wondering if you could, with the developments in Venezuela, just talk about if there was any demand impact in the region and then what your service there is and kind of the view for that.
Pedro Heilbron
Hi, Savi were back flying to Venezuela, of course. Actually, we only exited the market for a short period.
We are flying twice daily to Caracas, and we're also flying to Maracaibo, which is almost daily, a little bit less than daily. Before we had to stop flying to Venezuela last year, we were serving five cities, and we expect to go back to those cities gradually.
It won't happen right away, but we'll be adding capacity throughout 2026.
Savi Syth
That's helpful. If I might, announced offering Wi-Fi.
Have you chosen a provider, and is that for paid Wi-Fi or free or any kind of thoughts on how you provide the Wi-Fi service?
Pedro Heilbron
Yes. We have chosen a provider.
We haven't made it public yet. I think in April, end of April, we'll make it public.
We are confident that our product is going to satisfy all the needs and expectations of our clients.
Savi Syth
Very helpful. Thanks.
Looking forward to it.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our next question comes from the line of Duane Pfennigwerth of Evercore ISI. Your line is now open.
Duane Pfennigwerth
Hey. Good morning.
I wanted to ask you about stronger local currencies. Currencies move, maybe people don't feel it right away, but over time, purchasing power improves and you might see some demand pick up in relation to that in some of the markets that you serve.
I wonder, are you seeing any early improvement from stronger local currencies in some of your markets?
Pedro Heilbron
All right, yeah. Two answers to that, and we've talked about this before in previous calls.
We've always said, and it holds true today, that we do better when currencies are stronger in South America in particular. Yes, we're seeing improved demand and better yields as a result of the stronger currencies right now.
Duane Pfennigwerth
Okay. Then maybe just as a follow-up with respect to your full-year guidance, which I think assumes flattish unit revenue, is that what you're seeing now, or are you starting the year stronger than flattish?
Pedro Heilbron
We are guiding for the full year, and the first quarter is usually a strong quarter. All of our four quarters are strong, of course.
We don't have the huge seasonal swings. Quarter 1 and quarter 3 are usually the strongest, and quarter 1 lately has been the strongest quarter.
Of course we're seeing stronger numbers, but we're guiding for the full year, and it's really early. We are standing by our RASM guidance, and we're also adding double-digit capacity this year, we take that into account also.
Duane Pfennigwerth
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our next question comes from the line of Guilherme Mendes of JPMorgan. Your line is now open.
Guilherme Mendes
Yes, thank you. Hi, Pedro, Peter, Daniel.
Thanks for taking my question. I have a follow-up on the RASM guidance.
We were positively surprised to see the flattish numbers despite of the increase in capacity and the more appreciated local currencies. Pedro, do you mind sharing more details on what's behind that assumption for the?
Pedro Heilbron
Yeah. It's a few things.
Of course, we're confident on our demand outlook right now, and that is behind our RASM guidance. Also there are a few other factors.
One is that 50% of that ASM growth in 2026 is the full-year effect of our growth in 2025. That has already spooled up, most of it.
Another 40% is new frequencies, which are going to go mostly, or all of it, in markets where we need additional capacity. We need to keep in mind also that we've been catching up in terms of Boeing deliveries.
Now we're getting the deliveries that we need and that have been promised. In previous years, in particular in 2024 and 2023, we were behind quite a bit in deliveries.
We also had some catch-up to do in markets that in many cases are unique to us, and where we were not able to deploy enough capacity.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our next question comes from the line of Filipe Nielsen of Citi. Your line is now open.
Filipe Nielsen, your line is now open.
Filipe Nielsen
Hey. Hello, guys.
Sorry, I was on mute. Thanks for taking my question.
I wanted to explore in a little more detail the guidance on the cost side. I remember in third quarter you guided for CASM ex-fuel between 5.7 and 5.8, and now you're assuming a 5.7 cents in the guidance.
Just wondering if there are any factors that made you a little more optimistic about targeting the lower range of the previous guidance, and how do you see this CASM ex evolving throughout the year?
Pedro Heilbron
Thank you, Filipe. This is Peter now.
For 2025, we reported a CASM ex-fuel of 5.8, but of course we report to one decimal. When you look at the full number and you add a couple of decimals, you see we would be close to the middle of the range between 5.7 and 5.8.
That also gives us confidence for the 5.7. We have a lot of initiatives, some ongoing and some new initiatives, like we've talked about the full-year effect of the sales and distribution that still has some extra savings to come in.
We got a full-year effect of some densification projects that are going in. We got growth, 11% to 13% growth, which is helping us dilute the fixed cost.
We also have new initiatives that we're working on. Despite the fact that none of them make the headlines, the combination of all these initiatives do add a couple of additional points.
I would say what's embedded in the guidance is all those initiatives, and slightly offset it by some inflations and some effects headwinds that we're seeing.
Filipe Nielsen
Great. Just one follow-up.
I just wanted to hear a little more from you how do you see capacity evolving on a quarter-by-quarter basis? We know that there's some carry from the deliveries that you took late last year, just wondering if we should see stronger growth in the first half of the year and then moderating in second half.
Maybe if you give a little color on that, please.
Pedro Heilbron
Yes, you're right. As most of the 50% of the capacity comes from full-year effect of last year's deliveries and service we launched, it is slightly frontloaded, we are going to see being more above the range in the first half and then slightly on the lower end of the range in the second half.
Filipe Nielsen
Great. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our next question comes from the line of Michael Linenberg of Deutsche Bank. Your line is now open.
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Michael Linenberg
yeah. Pedro, just on the Venezuela service, when you listed the markets, does that actually include Wingo?
I have sort of a question tied to Wingo on how you see that business this year. Is it sort of steady on the fleet size, or is there potential growth in 20 26 at Wingo?
Pedro Heilbron
Sorry for that, and sorry to our Wingo co-workers. I left Wingo out.
Wingo has gone back in with their own 73 daily frequencies from Bogota to Caracas, and they'll be restarting Medellin to Caracas in the very near future. No, I did not include Wingo.
Wingo received a 10th 737-800 in the second half of last year. Then they went through a number of C-checks, they had to use that aircraft as back-up for the C-checks.
We'll see the impact of their 10th aircraft this year. Otherwise, it's stable.
Wingo won't be growing much this year, and they'll continue in that same path we saw last year.
Michael Linenberg
Great. Then just a quick second one here, Pedro.
I know that Cuba's not the biggest market for you, but you've always had long-standing service there. We're seeing a lot of international carriers either cut the service or maybe being forced to make tech stops.
Do you have the ability to fly in with enough fuel from Panama City so you do not have to make a tech stop on a round-trip flight to Cuba? Where are you on that?
Thanks for taking my questions.
Pedro Heilbron
Yeah. Thank you, Mike.
Given that Panama is sea level and the distance from here to Cuba to Havana, well, we fly to two cities, but mostly to Havana, we can tanker in Panama and not take any fuel in Cuba, and that's what we're doing with a minimal impact to our passenger capacity. We do have to reduce the number of passengers, but very little.
I think it's by 10, 10 or 15, something like that passengers. Then we're holding back from sending belly cargo.
Those are the two things, the two adjustments to be able to tanker in Panama. Then Wingo, I won't miss Wingo this time, Wingo flies from Bogota to Havana, and they need to make a tech stop somewhere in Colombia, in Barranquilla, which is sea level.
That's because Bogota is hot and high, they make a stop in Barranquilla at sea level.
Michael Linenberg
Thanks for that.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our next question comes from the line of Rafael Simonetti of UBS-BB.
Rafael Simonetti
Hello, and thanks for taking my question. It's a simple question regarding the code-share with Volaris.
I wanted to know if the partnership remains with the potential deal between Volaris and Viva. Thank you.
Pedro Heilbron
Yes. Our code-share with Volaris started in November.
It's still spooling up. We haven't really addressed the Volaris-Viva merger.
At least I'm not aware that we have addressed that. We expect the code-share to continue.
In any case, it's not going to be a significant part of our business.
Rafael Simonetti
Makes sense. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our next question comes from the line of Daniel McKenzie of Seaport Global. Your line is now open.
Daniel McKenzie
Oh, hey, guys. Thanks for the time here.
Pedro, I'm wondering if you can provide some partner perspective. Either the percent of revenue or the volume of passengers from your partners in 2025 versus what it was, say, pre-pandemic.
What I'm trying to get at is how big a piece of the revenue story are the portfolio of partners. Is it more than 10%, less than 10%, anything you can share?
That's not a number we share. What I can say is that our numbers are not above pre-pandemic.
If anything, they're below or slightly below. Our main partner, of course, is United.
Pedro Heilbron
We code-share in many US routes, and we're also partners in Star Alliance. We had a partnership even before that, and that partnership is healthy, is strong, and well, United is doing extremely well themselves, we know that.
No, the numbers have not changed, have not grown really post-pandemic. Yeah.
United definitely a healthy partner. Second question here, just going back to Venezuela.
As you think about the risk/reward of the country as part of the network, I'm wondering what its size as a percent of overall flying could ultimately look like, say, in two to three years. Of course, we have been born and raised in the middle of Latin America.
[laughter] And so, this is something we know how to do, is how to deal with changing situations, crises of every kind. We've proven to be very resilient in every market we serve.
I think we were the better airline managing this whole Venezuela crisis that's taking quite a while. We're also very loyal to the countries and cities we serve because we're loyal to our passengers and we understand the importance of the connectivity we provide through the Hub of the Americas in Panama.
Sorry for this promo ad, but we're confident that we're managing capacity the right way, that we understand the market, and that we're going to be there in the future in a successful way. Along the way, we might need to make adjustments.
That's kind of part of our day-to-day in Latin America, making adjustments. We have enough opportunities to move around capacity.
Right now is from other markets to Venezuela. Before was from Venezuela to other markets.
We have continued returning strong demand, even though we always have to make those adjustments. It's kind of our daily living, and I don't have the magic wand, but we have a team that knows how to deal with changing times and changing situations.
Daniel McKenzie
Yeah. Very good.
Thanks for the time, you guys.
Pedro Heilbron
Thank you, Dan.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our next question comes from the line of Pablo Monsivais of Barclays. Your line is now open.
Pablo Monsivais
Hi. Good morning.
Thanks for taking my question. Again on Venezuela, is any of this destination included differently in this year guidance, or it's just basically business as usual now?
Just wanted to understand if perhaps you think through Venezuela we might see some upside there, or probably will have some incremental cost if you are thinking about expanding Venezuela at some point this year. I just wanted to understand the impact of Venezuela in your guidance on the unit cost.
Thank you.
Pedro Heilbron
Yeah. Thank you, Pablo.
It's not material. We're not guiding to Venezuela changing our results.
There won't be any material changes either way. There could be upside, of course, but not what we're expecting right now.
We're expecting our service to Venezuela to be very similar to the rest of the things we do throughout our network, and if we grow there, we grow in another market, it won't change our guidance in a significant way.
Pablo Monsivais
Perfect. If I can add one follow-up, just out of curiosity, have you seen any interesting trends on the World Cup this year for the summer?
Pedro Heilbron
Yeah. That's an interesting topic, because World Cups in our region don't happen even every four years.
Demand patterns are going to change due to the World Cup, and it's going to be different to what we're used to dealing with. We're working hard to try to minimize the potential surprises from flights being very full in one direction, maybe not in the other, and then passengers that were going to vacation in Cancun or Punta Cana now they're going to go to the World Cup in the US or Mexico or Canada.
All of those changing patterns are a challenge to deal with. We have a team working on that right now.
We will fly extra sections to Toronto, where Panama is playing its first two games. Our third game is in New York.
Not sure where we'll play after that if we qualify and keep on moving. Oh, the finals are in New York.
Hopefully we'll be there. [laughter] Let's not laugh.
You never know. [laughter] No,
Pablo Monsivais
that's true. That's true.
Pedro Heilbron
Of course, the other teams are the favorites. I'm not changing that.
The favorites are very strong. Anyway, we will have extra sections, quite a number of extra sections to Toronto, and then we are managing the rest of the network in the best possible way.
Peter Donkersloot
Hopefully on the final, at least even if it's not Panama, there are two countries that we serve. That would be fantastic.
Pedro Heilbron
There are many.
Peter Donkersloot
Yeah.
Pablo Monsivais
Interesting. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our next question comes from the line of Jens Spiess of Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.
Jens Spiess
Hi, everyone. We have noticed that you are planning to increase capacity in Argentina and actually reducing a bit of capacity in Colombia.
I have two-part question here. First, if you could please comment on the demand dynamics you're seeing in both of those countries.
I think you already alluded a bit on Colombia, but also interesting to see what you're seeing in Argentina and how excited you're about those routes and demand in that market. Secondly, considering how nimbly you are allocating capacity, is it maybe fair to assume that, all else equal, your load factor guidance actually conservative?
Just putting that out. Thank you.
Pedro Heilbron
I'll start with the second one first, because some team members, especially from the commercial department, are here on the call, and they already feel challenged by our goals. [laughter] So our guidance tends to be realistic.
We are always very close to guidance year-in and year-out, because we make it realistic and it's the same guidance that our team has, and a chunk of their compensation is based on us reaching those goals. Everything is well aligned, and for that reason we need to be realistic.
I would say our guidance is so realistic and when there's upside is because there are other external factors, tailwinds that make things easier. Once in a while that happens, of course.
In terms of Colombia and Argentina, I should say that right now, all of our markets are looking well. Argentina is fine.
Of course, it's not as strong as a year ago, because as I mentioned in the previous call, a lot of capacity came in during 2025, but it's still a very strong market, it's still doing well. Only that year-over-year there's a lot more capacity from everyone.
We're doing well in Argentina. We serve a number of cities.
Our new cities, which started last year, are doing well too. Colombia's also doing okay also.
Jens Spiess
All right. Perfect.
Thank you and congrats on the results. Thank you.
Thank you.
Pedro Heilbron
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our next question comes from the line of Rogerio Araujo of Bank of America. Your line is now open.
Rogerio Araujo
Hey, hi, guys. Thanks for the opportunity.
I have a couple here. First one, you already mentioned that the local currencies have been supporting yields.
Is this the only reason why Copa has expectations for a flat RASM despite of a double-digit capacity expansion, or in your view there are other strengths in the region that could explain that, or maybe some supply rationality? If you could give some colors on that, that's my first one.
Thank you.
Pedro Heilbron
The potential currency strength or tailwind is not something that we're banking on for the full year. We know the volatility of our currencies, well, of a lot of currencies in our region.
When we put together our growth plan, currencies were not as strong as they are right now. No, it's not only not part of the plan, it could be a windfall, it's a tailwind right now, but it's not what we're betting on for growth or for having a strong year.
Rogerio Araujo
Perfect. Thank you.
Also, it felt to me a little bit challenging on arriving to the CASM ex-fuel guidance looking at my model and playing with the variables. Any color you could provide on which lines we could reduce further or that you see more opportunities, anything you could share here would be greatly appreciated as well.
Thank you.
Pedro Heilbron
Thank you for the question. This is Peter again.
I would say that our guidance, what's embedded is some benefit for the growth. Those lines that are fixed or semi-fixed, you'll see a better benefit.
Part of the salaries, wages, and benefits, that part that is not operational driven, and we're very disciplined to not grow overhead in the same line that we grow capacity, we're going to see some benefits in there. We should be able to see additional benefits in the sales and distribution.
I think if I would call out, I would say those were two particular lines that we could call out right now.
Rogerio Araujo
Very clear. Thanks so much.
Pedro Heilbron
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our next question comes from the line of Guilherme Mendes of JPMorgan. Your line is now open.
Guilherme Mendes
Yes, thank you so much, guys, for the follow-up. I got cut after my first question.
The second one is regarding the buyback program. Peter, if you could remind us where you are on the buyback program, how much have you executed so far?
Pedro Heilbron
Thank you, Guilherme. As we have the buyback program approved by the board of $200 million.
We have executed more or less half of it, and we have the other half remaining open, no end date in place. Whenever we do finalize it, we will ask for a new one.
Guilherme Mendes
Perfect. Thank you so much.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question.
Our last question comes from the line of Alberto Valerio of UBS. Your line is now open.
Alberto Valerio
Hi, Pedro and Peter. Thank you for taking my question.
My question comes from Brazil here. We heard that there is a project to suspend the Law 400 in Brazil, which would be good for the airlines in terms of lawsuits from the consumers to the airline.
I would like to see if you already see any positive impact on the liabilities of Copa with the Brazilian consumers, and if get approval this Resolution 400, what we can see in terms of upside to the future? Thank you.
Pedro Heilbron
The the thank you, Alberto. The the impact, it's going to be on cost, of course.
Many might not be aware of this, but I think something close to like 90% of of passenger/consumer lawsuits in the world come out of Brazil. That's going to be welcomed by by the industry, because the numbers just don't make sense, are and are not fair to airlines or to the reality of our industry.
There will be cost savings from from that if it if it does pass. Peter,
Alberto Valerio
thank you, Pedro. If I'm not mistaken, it's already suspended, isn't it?
You are not being charged for the lawsuits since the end of last year. You correct me if I'm wrong.
You have any impact already from this or not?
Pedro Heilbron
We have the impact from the lawsuits. We all have the impact from the lawsuits, to be transparent, I'm not very familiar with the specifics of the law, the resolution, and what's going to change.
Of course, I'm aware of it, and it's been discussed. It's one of those things that I want to see it to believe it.
It would be a positive. I haven't been very involved in the details of it, but it will be really important for the industry.
It will be very positive, and especially it will be fair to the industry. It will result in savings, of course.
Alberto Valerio
Fantastic. Fantastic.
Thank you very much.
Pedro Heilbron
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Thank you.
This concludes the question-and-answer session. I will now turn it back to Pedro Heilbron for closing remarks.
Pedro Heilbron
Thank you. Thank you all.
This concludes our earnings call, of course. Thank you for being with us, and as always, thank you for your continued support.
Have a great day.
Operator
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