Other North & South America Frequent Flyer Programs - Where to look for LAN reward availability?
albireo
Oct 11, 06, 2:34 am
Is there an on-line tool available to look for Lan Chile reward availability (in Coach or Business)? This using Executive Club miles.
What are the reward booking classes on LAN, by the way?
cestmoi123
Oct 11, 06, 7:54 am
No online tool that I know of, unfortunately. You'll need to do it by phone.
dcstudent
Oct 11, 06, 7:57 am
Use Qantas' freuqent flier booking agent. A fellow flyertalker alerted me to this tool. You can set up a free frequent flier account and Qantas shows you availability on all OneWorld. A caveat however is they will not always let you pick the origination and destination city you want so you may need to set up connecting flights to view availability. www.qantas.com
albireo
Oct 11, 06, 9:52 am
Thanks for the tip! I registered and tried it but the none of the cities I am looking for (SCL and IPC) appears in the menu.
dcstudent
Oct 11, 06, 11:25 am
Use a city you'd have to connect through to get there. For example, if you choose Buenos Aires as your destination it will show you the SCL flights. (I think).
MarkXS
Oct 12, 06, 9:43 am
You also can register on LAN.com for a LANPASS account, then check for reward availability. That would be availability from their LANPASS kilometers rather than BA miles, but it should be close to what you can get; at least if they don't have availability to their own scheme, you can guess that oneworld partners won't have those flights available to them. Also it will have all the city pairs they travel.
I've not yet redeemed on LAN but I've been accumulating on them this year, mostly from AA trips and hotels with an upcoming LAN trip. I've even been able to check for AA North American domestic availability on LAN.com. Sometimes if not originating from LAN's own cities I'll see a message, always only on the outbound, that says "This origin-destination cannot be purchased online" but it will show availability on the return. Just reverse the origin and destination with a dummy outbound and your desired origination-destination cities and date as the "return", and check again to see availabilty on that leg, if you run into this problem.