LATAM Award space not showing up on BA.com?
Apr 20, 2019, 3:17 pm
#62
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Apr 21, 2019, 4:16 am
#63
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Apr 21, 2019, 4:27 am
#64
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What dates are you looking for?
Apr 21, 2019, 8:08 am
#66
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Still zero for most of January, but BA AVIOS site seems to be more flaky than usual IMHO.
It's less hassle to actual go to the LATAM Chile web site and buy the Business class flights.
If you get in there early the one way flight maybe Ł200 (IIRC) and you get tier points and miles for the trouble.
There is no issue in buying from the Chile web-site.
My fare was also fully refundable up to the same day (IIRC) so I checked for AVIOS availability until about 1 month before hand.
There was ZERO every day.
Good luck.
It's less hassle to actual go to the LATAM Chile web site and buy the Business class flights.
If you get in there early the one way flight maybe Ł200 (IIRC) and you get tier points and miles for the trouble.
There is no issue in buying from the Chile web-site.
My fare was also fully refundable up to the same day (IIRC) so I checked for AVIOS availability until about 1 month before hand.
There was ZERO every day.
Good luck.
Apr 21, 2019, 1:59 pm
#67
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It's less hassle to actual go to the LATAM Chile web site and buy the Business class flights..
I have no idea how much business class is but I assume it would be more than that.
I am not sure if it is something seasonal or a new LAN's marketing thing? Either way it seems they are trying to penalize early bookers (tourists who try to arrange their vacation a few months in advance).
Apr 21, 2019, 2:21 pm
#68
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You wish... I looked at "paid" tickets (prices on LAN's English and Chilean sites seem to be the same) and found out that the "usual" USD 500-600 RT ECONOMY fare on this route is no longer an option. The ticket either costs as low as USD 265+ RT in the next few months (May-early August) or USD1500+ from September onward.
I have no idea how much business class is but I assume it would be more than that.
I am not sure if it is something seasonal or a new LAN's marketing thing? Either way it seems they are trying to penalize early bookers (tourists who try to arrange their vacation a few months in advance).
I have no idea how much business class is but I assume it would be more than that.
I am not sure if it is something seasonal or a new LAN's marketing thing? Either way it seems they are trying to penalize early bookers (tourists who try to arrange their vacation a few months in advance).
There is a Monday ONLY flight from SCL to PPT which stops at IPC Wide open for both Y and C Jan 13th
Then there is the PPT to IPT flight on the Tuesday
Or the PPT flight on the Tuesdays to SCL.
This route has always been problematic re reward flghts.
Apr 22, 2019, 10:03 am
#69
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Indeed. SCL-PPT (via IPC) and IPC-PPT is no problem. The same is true vise versa (PPT-IPC and PPT-SCL via IPC). It seems that only SCL-IPC sector is deliberately blocked for award travel.
Last edited by GREAKLY; Apr 22, 2019 at 10:14 am
Apr 22, 2019, 10:14 am
#70
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Strangely enough, the SCL-PPT and IPC-PPT (and vise versa) award flight availability shows up on ba.com but doesn't show up on aa.com. Not sure why. Since both PPT and IPC are in the South Pacific region, it makes more sense to use aadvantage miles on this route than ba's avios.
Apr 23, 2019, 12:44 pm
#71
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I never ever see Award Space show up for JFK-GYE/LIM EVER. So if your seeing anything I would consider yourself lucky... Then again the LATAM rewards are reasonably priced just have to use Marriott instead of MR which sucks as I have a million MR's and not many Marriott at this time.
Apr 26, 2019, 3:30 pm
#72
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I never ever see Award Space show up for JFK-GYE/LIM EVER. So if your seeing anything I would consider yourself lucky... Then again the LATAM rewards are reasonably priced just have to use Marriott instead of MR which sucks as I have a million MR's and not many Marriott at this time.
Apr 26, 2019, 6:52 pm
#73
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I do but as you can see from my post I only can use Marriott points not AMEX points for LATAM J booking. That's why it sucks.
May 1, 2019, 11:32 am
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May 1, 2019, 12:57 pm
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