Originally Posted by IAHRoadWarrior

We followed the excellent advice offered below exactly and purchased our tickets on the English version Website of AR a couple of days ago with no issues. However, since then we've called 4 separate times (to different local AR branch offices) trying to confirm/pay for our tickets and AR simply will not allow us to purchase them unless we are physically in Argentina.

What is emerging as the hangup is not so much that we LIVE outside Argentina, but that we need to BE in Argentina when we call to pay for them. We've been told several times to have someone we know in Argentina call for us to confirm our reservations. Maybe there is a new policy at AR?

Unless there are FTers with some specific advice for us, we're probably going to go to our fallback plans - going the local travel agent route or just buying the tickets once we get to Argentina. Based on some prelim research, it looks like a walk-up Condor Class fare roundtrip is the same as the fare they want to charge us from the US (~$500), so we're starting to feel like there's not much to lose by waiting until we get to Argentina.

Any other thoughts or advice (or recent experiences to the contrary) would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
IAHRW