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Oct 28, 2015, 2:37 pm

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You will disembark. You will go through transit security. If you have lounge access, you can visit a lounge. [...] You may or may not get on the same aircraft you left. You will have a new crew.

I presume the same applies to the "direct" LAX-EZE (and reverse) flights that officially plane-change at LIM?

And is transit security the same type of security you would go through when entering an airport, or something different?

Oct 28, 2015, 3:35 pm

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Yup. Note also that on the LIM/USA segments, you also get gate molestations.

The only thru flights that I'm aware of that don't do this are the same crew/same plane SCL/LIM/USA flights (LAX and JFK).

Oct 28, 2015, 7:44 pm

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Yup. Note also that on the LIM/USA segments, you also get gate molestations.

Actually, I don't mind gate molestations, as long as they've allowed time for them. I travel with old-fashioned film that I prefer to have hand-checked (and certainly don't want sent through any "over-zealous" X-ray machines like the ones labeled as "will damage film" at DFW), and so extra "regular" screenings is what annoys me more.

Also, do you know if Peru allows tripods in carry-on? Most countries I've been to do, including Argentina in my experience, but Brazil doesn't in my experience. I'd be super-annoying to be able to carry-on something at EZE that LIM rejects as a carry-on!

Nov 5, 2015, 3:22 am

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If I was to fly this itinerary, would I need to clear immigration or does SCL do airside transits?

Nov 5, 2015, 7:08 am

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You don't clear Immigration in SCL, it's an airside transit with a security check.

Nov 6, 2015, 9:42 am

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You don't clear Immigration in SCL, it's an airside transit with a security check.

Thank you for this. Any chance you've sampled restaurants in the terminal there (SCL)?

Nov 9, 2015, 4:49 am

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I can recommend the Pisco Sours

Nov 10, 2015, 1:38 pm

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I can recommend the Pisco Sours

I've had this for breakfast in a LIM lounge ^

Nov 10, 2015, 2:08 pm

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Nov 11, 2015, 4:50 am

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I've had this for breakfast in a LIM lounge ^

Peruvian Pisco Sours are a pale imitation of the real thing. Not for nothing is there a bar on the concourse in SCL called "The Last Pisco Sour".

Nov 11, 2015, 8:47 am

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Peruvian Pisco Sours are a pale imitation of the real thing. Not for nothing is there a bar on the concourse in SCL called "The Last Pisco Sour".

Whereupon swords are drawn, the battle continues, and as long as this continues (which will be forever and a day), Bolivia will still not have access to the sea.

Now back to your regularly scheduled "what happens on the thru-flights via SCL" programming.

Nov 11, 2015, 4:13 pm

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Peruvian Pisco Sours are a pale imitation of the real thing. Not for nothing is there a bar on the concourse in SCL called "The Last Pisco Sour".

Carefull there. I think that both peruvian and chilean piscos and pisco sours are good for their own countries. Let's not say one is better; the same argument can be made for chilean and argentinian wine, no one will win that battle.

Nov 29, 2016, 7:13 pm

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When I selected seat(s) for this flight, it only showed me one flight option. Implying that it is one and the same plane flying EZE-SCL and SCL-JFK...?

Nov 29, 2016, 7:19 pm

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When I selected seat(s) for this flight, it only showed me one flight option. Implying that it is one and the same plane flying EZE-SCL and SCL-JFK...?

That's how thru-numbering works. The fact that you physically change aircraft doesn't allow you to have different seats on each segment.