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Old Apr 14, 2000 | 5:13 pm
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Samuel

Presumably you mean MIA-CCS and CCS-BOG in the first two lines of your itinerary (for 26th May)

Just one remark on SAL-GUA: any particular reason why you want to fly on GU rather than TA (since you have a GU flight the next morning anyway)? As I recall, the TA flight is in fact the same as the flight on which you arrive from SJO (TA560), so you would not have to leave the plane if you were on that one. On tightness of connection, it would be unwise for you to count on GU960 waiting for passengers from TA560, since most TA560 passengers going to GUA wil in fact stay on TA560. There was a suggestion earlier in the thread that GU960 might wait for connecting passengers (although, presumably, not from TA560). However, at the time, GU960 was the later flight out of SAL. Now the later flight is the TA flight. This being said, if the flights are on time, 15 minutes should be OK for a connection if you go straight to the gate without lingering on (when you get off the plane, there will be a TA agent as you walk off the airbridge into the terminal who can tell you which gate to go to). If you are unlucky enough for the gate to be at the other end of the terminal, this should mean approx. a five minutes walk.

If you want to avoid overnighting in BOG and do the trip in two days (28 hours, in fact) instead of three, look at my itinerary on p. 7 of this thread (one overnight in GUA only). The cost in business class (except for MGA-MIA on TA, which is in coach) is about GBP900. This would also give you a full day and half (27/5 afternoon and 28/5 all day) between finishing your Latin trip and your return transatlantic journey, either for contingencies or, if everything goes well, for relaxing in Miami Beach.. which you could surely do with, with all the flights before and after...

Compared to your itinerary, you only do 6 airlines instead of 7 (no Aeropostal flight), so you'd have to fit a VH flight in your late June schedule if you want to get the 1M (well, you'll have to get to UIO/LIM in some way or other in any event, unless you intend to fly direct to BOG on AV ex-LON for that second trip?)
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