What a cluster @ SCL. I arrived 5 days ago - that was an efficient arrival, but my departure 4 days ago (morning) consisted of (1) the passport control desk at LATAM Preferente only having one officer, so it was barely moving, and the line went back into the check-in room. [I was not the only one to see that line, and go back downstairs to the regular line.] (2) My bus gate caused a fair delay (in addition to the delay due to late aircraft arrival in pea soup fog.). (3) The bus gate areas (international) are ridiculous - one line for general boarding, one line for preferente.

Of course, that wasn't as bad as my return today. Another "bus gate" with no bus and no one to roll up the stairway for some time. So much for my row 2 seat getting me more quickly to the line, which took an hour, only to find that the baggage carousel was already empty, with the electronic board above saying to go to the baggage service desk down the hall, where I waited some time, finally seeing my bag wheeled to the far left of me. 2 hours from landing to getting into a taxi, which was longer than the flight from EZE.

Fun