LATAM Status Match 2017
#61
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: GIG
Programs: AAdvantage ExP 1MM, Smiles/GOL Diamond, TudoAzul/AZUL Diamond, HHonors Gold, Accor Platinum
Posts: 190
#62
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: DXB
Programs: Marriott Titanium Elite, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, BA Silver, A3 Gold, Sixt Diamond
Posts: 2,811
On all my Dreamliner flights my girl-friend and I were upgraded to business class.
Their lounge (and priority check-in) at SCL is beautiful, they have some of the friendliest flight attendants I've ever had.
Their Dreamliners are quite nice - only their A320 was old and dirty. Much like US planes.
I'm a bit of a fan now actually!
The best part however is that I believe all my flights were credited to BA, even though I got the courtesy upgrades (believe, because no miles have been credited yet, neither to LA nor BA - but my BAEC# was on the boarding pass and I was upgraded).
After returning from my first trip to Latin America, I think the key thing is that people just don't speak English.
As soon as you can make yourself understood (either because you find the unicorn that does speak English - or somebody else can translate for you), the service was actually always quite good.
Their lounge (and priority check-in) at SCL is beautiful, they have some of the friendliest flight attendants I've ever had.
Their Dreamliners are quite nice - only their A320 was old and dirty. Much like US planes.
I'm a bit of a fan now actually!
The best part however is that I believe all my flights were credited to BA, even though I got the courtesy upgrades (believe, because no miles have been credited yet, neither to LA nor BA - but my BAEC# was on the boarding pass and I was upgraded).
After returning from my first trip to Latin America, I think the key thing is that people just don't speak English.
As soon as you can make yourself understood (either because you find the unicorn that does speak English - or somebody else can translate for you), the service was actually always quite good.
#63
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 17,422
After returning from my first trip to Latin America, I think the key thing is that people just don't speak English.
As soon as you can make yourself understood (either because you find the unicorn that does speak English - or somebody else can translate for you), the service was actually always quite good.
As soon as you can make yourself understood (either because you find the unicorn that does speak English - or somebody else can translate for you), the service was actually always quite good.
#64
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: DXB
Programs: Marriott Titanium Elite, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, BA Silver, A3 Gold, Sixt Diamond
Posts: 2,811
It's not just that. Everybody keeps complaining about bad service in Latin America, and that's just not my experience. We were treated really well everywhere, once communication issues were solved.
(Though I have to admit I have also read about a lot of bad experiences from people fluent in Spanish - that just hasn't been my experience so far.)
(Though I have to admit I have also read about a lot of bad experiences from people fluent in Spanish - that just hasn't been my experience so far.)
#65
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON, ATH
Programs: A3*G, BA Gold, OA Gold (in memoriam), Hertz #1 Gold
Posts: 548
On all my Dreamliner flights my girl-friend and I were upgraded to business class.
Their lounge (and priority check-in) at SCL is beautiful, they have some of the friendliest flight attendants I've ever had.
Their Dreamliners are quite nice - only their A320 was old and dirty. Much like US planes.
I'm a bit of a fan now actually!
The best part however is that I believe all my flights were credited to BA, even though I got the courtesy upgrades (believe, because no miles have been credited yet, neither to LA nor BA - but my BAEC# was on the boarding pass and I was upgraded).
After returning from my first trip to Latin America, I think the key thing is that people just don't speak English.
As soon as you can make yourself understood (either because you find the unicorn that does speak English - or somebody else can translate for you), the service was actually always quite good.
Their lounge (and priority check-in) at SCL is beautiful, they have some of the friendliest flight attendants I've ever had.
Their Dreamliners are quite nice - only their A320 was old and dirty. Much like US planes.
I'm a bit of a fan now actually!
The best part however is that I believe all my flights were credited to BA, even though I got the courtesy upgrades (believe, because no miles have been credited yet, neither to LA nor BA - but my BAEC# was on the boarding pass and I was upgraded).
After returning from my first trip to Latin America, I think the key thing is that people just don't speak English.
As soon as you can make yourself understood (either because you find the unicorn that does speak English - or somebody else can translate for you), the service was actually always quite good.
#67
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: SFO/SJC/OAK
Programs: OZ Diamond (*G), KQ Asante Gold (ST+), Hilton Diamond, IHG Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,511
Glad Lucky found the thread useful and got the match
http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2018/01/11/latam-status-match/
http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2018/01/11/latam-status-match/
#68
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: DXB
Programs: Marriott Titanium Elite, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, BA Silver, A3 Gold, Sixt Diamond
Posts: 2,811
At the airport for flight 1, got my boarding pass without a frequent flyer number (wanted to be safe), but then asked them to enter my BA number anyway because I wanted to get priority boarding.
The agent could see my BA Gold status, but said something went wrong, it was not saved, so I did not get a new boarding pass (I ended up just showing my BA card to the gate agent).
So I assumed that my booking was still free from a frequent flyer number.
I then applied for the courtesy upgrade for the next flight.
For this I again had to enter the booking number manually ("no bookings found") - obviously the booking was not linked to my LATAM profile.
The upgrade cleared and at the airport I got a boarding pass with my BA number on!
The same thing happened with my third flight, the fourth one I haven't taken yet.
No LATAM number on the boarding pass.
...And I just saw that the miles indeed were credited to BA.
#69
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 17,422
So I've now tried ChocolateFactory's strategy 3 times, and each time I've received a (different) response indicating that the agent knows nothing about a status match program. So this is looking increasingly like a unicorn. I guess I could try again, but has anyone had any different outcome recently?
#71
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 17,422
#72
Join Date: May 2017
Location: San Francisco
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 369
#73
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 69
Perhaps they've closed this internal unpublished promotions since recently with another wave of "Go get your OW Emerald by matching LATAM" blogs you may see everywhere...Anyway I would keep trying in your case and inquiry via SNS channels simultaneously...
#74
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON, ATH
Programs: A3*G, BA Gold, OA Gold (in memoriam), Hertz #1 Gold
Posts: 548
I just started the process through facebook and they created a file for me. I received an email last night asking for a previous LATAM booking. It is still going on