Originally Posted by
yyzprincess
Really. It time you stop being bitter & bash AC every opportunity you get.
Here is one example: EZE-NRT 11,374 miles.
The fare in coach may be more than going via USA on US carriers or Japanese carrier.
AC not competive coach fare with upgrades is way lower than discounted business fare on that route with Japanese carriers.
There is fair amount of trafic between SA & Asia. With the Olympics there will be increase traffic.
AC does have Asian based SE.
UA for example has large Japanese MP members.
I would probably fly a L fare and not upgrade to SCL on a different fare and buy a T fare to NRT from there.
Or fly AR (it's $80 cheaper to do that too, and they fly from AEP which is more convenient than EZE) to SCL.