1 hour connection in SCL?
 

I'm flying IPC-SCL-MIA-JFK all on LA except for the last segment on AA, and originally I was booked with a 2:55 layover in SCL. Now there is a delay on the IPC-SCL flight (due to a late departure of SCL-IPC), and my connection time is now reduced to exactly 1:00. According to Expertflyer, the MCT for SCL is 1:00 for domestic to international, so this connection is just barely valid. Should I be worried? I will be flying in J on both segments with no checked bags, if that helps.

If I miss my connection (the last SCL-MIA flight of the day), the next flight won't leave until the following day. Does LAN normally provide accommodations for misconnecting passengers? Or would I be on my own to try and figure something out?

Although I´ve only done the IPC-SCL flight twice, I would say no problem at all. Just get both boarding passes in IPC so all you have to do is go to your gate.

I have a similar issue....

Flying LPB-IQQ-SCL-AKL-SYD-CNS with SYD-CNS on qantas.

The LPB-IQQ-SCL is the one flight number (LA969) but has a stopover in IQQ for 90 minutes and arrives into SCL at 2210. The SCL-SYD flight leaves at 2310, giving me 70 minutes for transfer.

Are the two planes earlier likely to be delayed and are my chances of making the SCL-AKL unlikely?

Since its all on the one ticket, if any of the flights get delayed and I miss the next one - LAN/Qantas will get me onto the next flight available?

In the case of the SCL-AKL flight do they provide overnight accommodation?

I'm assuming my bags are ticketed through to SYD?

Is anyone able to help?

This is not a busy airport.

Although an international airport, there are not a lot of flights leaving from SCL. Some only have once a day departures.

It's never busy the times I have been through here.

You should be fine.

The minimum legal connecting time is 60 minutes international to international.

You should be fine.

Except IQQ-SCL is a domestic flight. You arrive in the national side and would have to go through immigrations and security to get into the international terminal and if they did not check backs all the way through, pick up bags and recheck them before proceeding to immigrations.

1 hour is cutting it really really close. Also LPB-IQQ-SCL is the segment likely to be delayed (or subject to a characteristic LAN schedule change) vs. SCL-AKL.

A curiosity question: how do they treat the LPB-IQQ-SCL flight if a passenger boarded in LPB? Shouldn't it be an international flight? Are all passengers coming from Bolivia required to disembark in IQQ, clear customs and board the aircraft again there?

LPB-IQQ is international and as IQQ is the first port of entry, they would have to disembark the passengers for formal entry into Chile. The same IQQ-SCL flight is sold as a domestic flight so they probably have new passengers coming on and I cannot see the tightly-controlled-entry-into-the-country Chileans allowing domestic pax to mix with uncleared international pax.

I have only done SCL-IQQ-LPB rather than the other way around but the equivalent situation applies at PUQ for the MPN-PUQ-SCL flights (which I have done): everyone comes off at PUQ, clears immigration, goes through a customs/SAG check (but for hand luggage only) and re-boards along with the domestic PUQ-SCL passengers; at SCL, passengers from MPN are diverted via customs/SAG for their checked luggage to be scanned.

Hope this info helps rather than hinders.

If this happens, because its all on the one ticket will LAN organize me a ticket on the next SCL-SYD flight and overnight accomodation?

The LPB-IQQ-SCL flight retains the same flight number even after the stopover in IQQ if that changes anything?

When you search La Paz, Bolivia to Sydney, Australia the first option that comes up is the LPB-IQQ-SCL-AKL-SYD flight, so would I be right in assuming that they wouldn't be selling that route if it wasn't possible?

I'm not concerned if the flights are delayed and I get back to Australia 24 hours later than intended, just more that I'm not going to be out of pocket for accommodation, new flights if it is delayed.

If all this is on one ticket and ticketed direct by LAN (no agency involved), you should be OK.

So it looks like , deplane at IQQ with your carry-ons, go through immigrations and get your carry-ons X-rayed by customs, resume your flight, possibly have to retrieve checked luggage at SCL and go through customs, recheck luggage if that happens, clear exit immigrations at the peak evening hours, get on your flight.

It was booked by my travel agent but ticketed through LAN on the one ticket.

Will I have to pay the visa reciprocity fee for chile even though I'm not leaving the airports?

Since you clear immigrations in IQQ, you escape the fee. If you had to clear in SCL, fee would apply.

I recently had a scheduled 55 minute international-to-domestic connection at SCL from AA #945 from DFW-SCL to LA #841 from SCL-IPC. Obviously a very risky connection as is, especially with only one flight to IPC a day, but that was my best and only option following a cancelled flight segment and a re-route due to irrops. My itinerary was further complicated when AA #945 departed 45 minutes late and arrived into SCL 20 minutes late.

Recognizing that I was in serious risk of misconnecting, I acted proactively, spoke with the purser aboard AA #945, and explained my predicament. She told the pilots and they radioed ahead to have a LA ground staff agent meet me at the jet bridge. AA #945 arrived 20 minutes late into SCL, but the escort was great; she got me gate-to-gate in 18 minutes, walking briskly and helping me cut immigration, customs, and security lines, and I made my flight to IPC by the narrowest of margins. I wouldn't bank on this sort of treatment and outcome, but if any of you find yourself in a similar predicament, perhaps you might find this information useful.