Peru - Travel from United States to Lima Peru December 2008

My wife and I are starting our search for airfares from Chicago, IL to Lima Peru for a friend's wedding next December. I wanted to post a thread to get tips of where to look for the best deals for airfare, where to fly from, what air lines to check with, when to purchase and so on.

The wedding is a destination wedding on Dec 20. We will probably go down a few days early and stay about 4 extra days.

Anyone who can point me in the right direction and give me info if you have flown that way before I would be most appreciative.

Thanks in advance

BigPete

You have a lot of different options, but since you are in Chicago AA may be the simplist. I am not sure that AA flies DFW-LIM an more, but you could certainly go ORD-MIA-LIM very easily. You could also go on CO through IAH, both options are one stop and get you there late evening (10-11 PM). CO flies 757's to LIM, AA has a mixture of widebodies and 757's.

Delta is also another option through ATL. If you are not married to any particular FF program, I would select the airline that has the easiest connections for you.

you could also use fly on LAN through either LAX, MIA or NYC. This has the added benefit that you can combine intra-south american flying on LAN to possible make some of your connections easier