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The beginning of April in the U.S. is also the beginning of the baseball season: the Major League Baseball regular season traditionally runs from the start of April to the end of September, with the subsequent month of October dedicated to playoffs.
With 30 teams scattered across the United States (and Canada, with one team based in Toronto) scheduled to play 162 games each in less than six months, aviation is a key component of the world’s most famous baseball league as all teams criss-cross the North American continent, usually in chartered aircraft, to earn a spot in the playoffs.
But the popularity of MLB is not limited to the U.S. and Canada. In 2015, Panama-based Copa reached an agreement to be considered the “official airline of Major League Baseball.”
To celebrate the event, the carrier from Central America painted one of its Boeing 737-800 aircraft in a special livery with all the logos of MLB Teams lined up on the fuselage.
Fifteen logos on one side of the fuselage, fifteen on the other, with the tailfin displaying the official MLB logo, the Boeing 737-800 aircraft with registration HP-1533CMP showcased all the teams playing in the league and proudly displayed the sentence “Official airline of the MLB” on the front section of the plane, both in English and Spanish.
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