LAN Sales
Nov 22, 2014, 9:51 am
#61
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: MEX
Programs: LATAMPASS, Copa ConnectMiles Gold
Posts: 266
Anyway, will wait for some sort of Cyber Monday deals here -- not in any rush to book anything new yet anyway.
Nov 23, 2014, 12:40 pm
#62
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: BOGish. VLCish. It's complicated.
Programs: BA
Posts: 681
Hope it's better than their "promotion" in Mexico yesterday. They advertised a 3-hour flash sale to GIG - $599 econ, or $1299 biz. I did find econ seats at that price, but there were no business seats available at that fare, even checking the site as soon as the sale started.
Small print said "Fly between Dec 8-Jan 31", but when you factored in all the exceptions, it left 19 days you could actually fly. Even so, I did a wide search across the so-called eligible period, and found the promo fares available on precisely zero days. Nice promo, LAN!
Small print said "Fly between Dec 8-Jan 31", but when you factored in all the exceptions, it left 19 days you could actually fly. Even so, I did a wide search across the so-called eligible period, and found the promo fares available on precisely zero days. Nice promo, LAN!
Nov 24, 2014, 3:19 am
#63
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Flew over the Equator 55 times last 3 years
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Posts: 2,957
Well, I dunno. A 20%-40% reduction is OK but what I like is that, even though they drop the kms only a little on awards travel, they wide open the availability.
The USA and Ecuador sites have the sale on December 1.
Add: Well, I did OK, picked up over 1/2 dozen tix. LIM-Ayacucho ai rt for $47 is pretty sweet, almost a 50% reduction.
What I did notice is a new format for terms and conditions. It had all the restrictions of normal Base X fare but not the resident of Peru restriction (the web page grid still does if you hover over fare types but not in the actual terms and conditions).
The USA and Ecuador sites have the sale on December 1.
Add: Well, I did OK, picked up over 1/2 dozen tix. LIM-Ayacucho ai rt for $47 is pretty sweet, almost a 50% reduction.
What I did notice is a new format for terms and conditions. It had all the restrictions of normal Base X fare but not the resident of Peru restriction (the web page grid still does if you hover over fare types but not in the actual terms and conditions).
Last edited by bingocallerb22; Nov 24, 2014 at 5:40 am Reason: add
Nov 28, 2014, 8:36 pm
#65
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Helsinki
Programs: A3 Gold, BA Silver
Posts: 1,014
Nov 29, 2014, 6:16 am
#66
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Location: Flew over the Equator 55 times last 3 years
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Posts: 2,957
LAN USA (and Ecuador) Cyber sale starts at midnight Sunday night (1st December), lets see if there are any great deals or not.
Edit: Wow, I am struggling to get the time right on this one, sorry. Now says starts at 5 am Monday. Best to just ignore me and go straight to
http://www.lan.com/onlyinsouthamerica/cybermonday/
Edit: Wow, I am struggling to get the time right on this one, sorry. Now says starts at 5 am Monday. Best to just ignore me and go straight to
http://www.lan.com/onlyinsouthamerica/cybermonday/
Last edited by bingocallerb22; Nov 30, 2014 at 4:26 am Reason: correction
Dec 1, 2014, 4:20 pm
#70
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: MEX
Programs: LATAMPASS, Copa ConnectMiles Gold
Posts: 266
No 'official' Cyber Monday deals for us LAN customers based out of MEX, but they have just launched some 2x1 business promos which are pretty good deals:
2x ... LIM $1,699 / GIG $2,799 / MVD $2,799 / EZE $2,799 / SCL 2,999 / GRU $2,999
http://www.lan.com/es_mx/sitio_perso...iciembre/lima/
For travel in December and January. Requires a 7-day stay.
FYI ... I just made a sample booking, as a SINGLE passenger. And guess what? It seems willing to give me SCL for $1,464 ai. So, sometimes the buggy LAN.com CAN work in our favor!
2x ... LIM $1,699 / GIG $2,799 / MVD $2,799 / EZE $2,799 / SCL 2,999 / GRU $2,999
http://www.lan.com/es_mx/sitio_perso...iciembre/lima/
For travel in December and January. Requires a 7-day stay.
FYI ... I just made a sample booking, as a SINGLE passenger. And guess what? It seems willing to give me SCL for $1,464 ai. So, sometimes the buggy LAN.com CAN work in our favor!
Last edited by DarrenChannel; Dec 1, 2014 at 4:48 pm Reason: Added min stay info.
Dec 5, 2014, 4:54 am
#71
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Location: Flew over the Equator 55 times last 3 years
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LAN Perú km sale 50% Dec 1-5 2014
LAN Perú km sale 50% Dec 1-5 2014
The annual kms sale for Perú accounts from Dec 1-5, but good ole LAN seems to have posted notice on Dec 5? Oh well. The interesting thing is they seem to have changed from an annual purchase limit of 100000 to 200000. Nice trend.
The annual kms sale for Perú accounts from Dec 1-5, but good ole LAN seems to have posted notice on Dec 5? Oh well. The interesting thing is they seem to have changed from an annual purchase limit of 100000 to 200000. Nice trend.
Jan 12, 2015, 1:12 pm
#73
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: MEX
Programs: LATAMPASS, Copa ConnectMiles Gold
Posts: 266
Brief window for some nice SCL deals ex-MEX --
MEX-SCL $499 econ, $1,299 biz.
Purchase by Jan 18.
Econ: Must complete travel by Mar 18.
Biz: Must complete travel by Feb 28.
Not ideal if just looking to accumulate miles/km (7-day stay req'd), but the biz ticket will earn 20,136 km (via LIM) or 19,767 km (non-stop). With the drop to 50% earning on the lowest econ fares, these biz fares (at 150%) are the better deal.
MEX-SCL $499 econ, $1,299 biz.
Purchase by Jan 18.
Econ: Must complete travel by Mar 18.
Biz: Must complete travel by Feb 28.
Not ideal if just looking to accumulate miles/km (7-day stay req'd), but the biz ticket will earn 20,136 km (via LIM) or 19,767 km (non-stop). With the drop to 50% earning on the lowest econ fares, these biz fares (at 150%) are the better deal.
Jan 13, 2015, 8:41 am
#74
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: BOGish. VLCish. It's complicated.
Programs: BA
Posts: 681
Brief window for some nice SCL deals ex-MEX --
MEX-SCL $499 econ, $1,299 biz.
Purchase by Jan 18.
Econ: Must complete travel by Mar 18.
Biz: Must complete travel by Feb 28.
Not ideal if just looking to accumulate miles/km (7-day stay req'd), but the biz ticket will earn 20,136 km (via LIM) or 19,767 km (non-stop). With the drop to 50% earning on the lowest econ fares, these biz fares (at 150%) are the better deal.
MEX-SCL $499 econ, $1,299 biz.
Purchase by Jan 18.
Econ: Must complete travel by Mar 18.
Biz: Must complete travel by Feb 28.
Not ideal if just looking to accumulate miles/km (7-day stay req'd), but the biz ticket will earn 20,136 km (via LIM) or 19,767 km (non-stop). With the drop to 50% earning on the lowest econ fares, these biz fares (at 150%) are the better deal.
This one's about 6.5 cpkm so I consider it just a tad expensive in cheap fare terms. If I'm going have to pay over the odds for LAN biz for qualification I'd rather pick routes that are just cheaper but might not accumulate too many miles and pick up the distance on AA when possible.
BOG-MIA for a target price of $650, LIM-SCL for $400, and SCL-EZE for $500 all look to me like candidates. There's also MIA-PUJ but I'd rather disembowel myself with a rusty knife than be forced to spend 7 days in DR.
Jan 13, 2015, 12:44 pm
#75
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: MEX
Programs: LATAMPASS, Copa ConnectMiles Gold
Posts: 266
It's been tough to find any biz deals ex-MEX since last year. LAN did have MEX-SCL-IPC on for ~$1,300 for some time (and I did take advantage of that), but that has been gone since last May. And MEX-SCL, which throughout 2013 and into 2014 was available for ~$2,000, was then jacked up in the middle of 2014 to an astonishing $4,000+. So seeing them put that fare down to $1,299 is a welcome change! (They also occasionally offer a similar biz fare to EZE.)