No more stopovers in South America?
#1
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No more stopovers in South America?
The Luxury Traveller is reporting that AS is no longer allowing stopovers on itineraries in South America.
#2
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The Luxury Traveller is reporting that AS is no longer allowing stopovers on itineraries in South America.
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That would be a horrible development, if it turns out to be the actual policy, as it is an annual trip / redemption for me.
#5
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While I understand some people not liking this change, I suspect the change was most likely mandated by LATAM (now that the Alaska-LATAM partnership is totally independent of any alliance), not Alaska, and Alaska simply had to implement it to maintain the ability to redeem AS miles for LATAM flights. LATAM is famous for springing changes even worse than this on their own LATAM Pass program with no notice.
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