[QUOTE=zbenye;18739922]When we had this same deal 4 years ago, we were not asked to pay anything at the airport other than the airport taxes. If there was any gringo tax, it must have already been included in the price of the ticket at the time of purchase.

Looks like this time around even the airport taxes are already included in the ticket. ITA shows it as HW:

Peru Airport Departure Tax (HW) $30.74

This HW is not reflected in the fare construction seen on my receipt; however, my ticket shows 135.00 fare + 103.64 taxes = 238.64 USD; and if you add up the taxes listed on ITA, including the HW amount, they total 103.64

People refer to a "gringo tax" which is not a tax at all, but is merely the fact that the airline sells in-country tickets at a higher price to people buying outside the country. If you have confirmed tickets, you've already paid any extra charge in the course of buying the ticket. An issue in some instances is a separate airport departure tax, which I asked about when I was in Peru this month, but on LAN anyway I didn't owe it since it too was incorporated in the price of a ticket.

One thing that can be done to get around the "gringo tax" (actually a higher price) when using paid tickets is get your tickets through a Peruvian travel agency. I reserved a connection in the middle of the night and flew to Lima without anything in hand beyond there, but the agency rep was right there in person at 2 a.m. to meet our flight and hand us our connecting domestic tickets in exchange for the Peruvian price in cash. I used Fertur, and this was a few years ago, so confirm with them they still do this.

Another thing you can try is to call LAN if paying for a ticket and see if they have any better deals. They do sometimes have unadvertised specials that don't seem to be loaded onto the website. On another trip in 2010 (not the one mentioned above) I got a Miami-Lima-Puerto Maldonado-Cuzco-Lima-Miami itinerary over the phone for hundreds less than apparently would have been possible, by calling LAN and jumping when the agent said, "We have an unadvertised special that is good just today..."