Here-I-Go,
I have been considering the same route, the only thing I don't like about it is the connect time between the first and second legs. Does anybody else have any comments on this?

Here-I-Go,

We booked the identical trip and for the first five segments, used Expedia's multiple destination screen which allows up to five legs. MIA-CCS booked at $1,001.40, which was about $250 less than our travel agent could get it done for. CCS-MIA was $279.87.

Total: $1,281.

ejulber

Hi there, came back today from my 500k run. This was the itinerary:
Travl Day one (I actually started in MEX)
GU 961 MEX-SAL 6am-9:10am
TA 571 SAL-MGA 1:48pm-2:53
CM 111 MGA-SJO 3:25 - 4:15

Was in Costa Rica for 4 days

Travl day 2:
LR 691 SJO - BOG 10:40am -1:45
AV 076 BOG - CCS 3:45 - 6:35

Travl day 3
VH 500 CCS - MIA 7:20am- 9:30am

ALL the flights were on time actually arrived earlier than scheduled.

Cost: $900.00 (without the flight to MEX)

If you are connecting in MGA, you DONT have to go thru customs or immigr. just transit.!!, the same thing in BOG/SAL

Are any of you planning to do the Lima - Cuzco / Iquitos trip in one day?? I've noticed that Taca has only one flight a day on these routes - so we'd end up taking the ourbound and returning half an hourlater. This could create a LOT of confusion amongst the crew and airport personnel!! What do you think??

leroy11 -- I'm sure they would wonder what you were up to. ("Uh, Sir, are you sure there isn't an error in your reservation?")

I'll never forget the face of the check-in agent at my first flight when he saw my itinerary! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Milesmiles,

It looks like your connection in MGA was only 30 minutes, was this enough time?

Thanks Tomphot & Ejulber. I'll check out both the fare and connect time. Still looking for additional input on this run as well as a good 1mil run. . .

[This message has been edited by Here-I-Go (edited 03-08-2000).]

Well, I've put together a somewhat different 1 million mile run. I've e-mailed it to LP to get the "OK" and will post it once I got a reply. By the way, it seems that there is a shortage of good hotels in Tegucigalpa?, Honduras and Managua, Nicaragua. Although many of you probably would not stay in Best Westerns, they could be a good place to stay in these places. The Best Western in Tegucigalpa is located 3 miles from the airport with a courtesy car for most of the morning and the one in Managua is located directly across from the airport - a 200 m walk. Finally, the one in Caracas is 2 miles from the airport there. So, they seem to be a good bet!!

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Cheers.

Leo.

Tomphot & Ejulber,

Can't do much to improve the first leg connect time.

The price I listed is for BUSINESS class except for the last leg which is COACH.

Still hoping for a good 1mil run plan . . . and further input on our plan!

Thanks!

[This message has been edited by Here-I-Go (edited 03-09-2000).]

Tomphot & Ejulber,

Can't do much to improve the first leg connect time.

The price I listed is for BUSINESS class except for the last leg which is COACH.

Still hoping for a good 1mil run plan . . . and further input on our plan!

Thanks!

A concerned learned of my plans and emailed me this link and article. Thought I'd pass it along. I am an adventurer, but I'll arrange not to have to leave the airport in Bogota.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000307/08/odd-colombia

Afraid to Go Outdoors As Crime Spirals


Updated 8:15 AM ET March 7, 2000
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Almost three-quarters of Colombians are frightened to go out at night and most avoid talking to strangers because of a rising wave of violent crime, a poll published on Sunday suggested.
Most of those polled believe the situation was getting worse in this Andean nation, which is torn by a three-decade-old guerrilla war and already has the dubious distinction of being one of the most violent countries in the hemisphere.

Colombia, with some 40 million inhabitants, is widely recognized as the kidnap capital of the world, with 2,787 abductions last year, according to police statistics. It also has one of the highest murder rates in the hemisphere with 23,172 homicides last year -- only about 3,500 of them a direct result of the civil conflict.

In 1998, the United States, with a population of about 270 million, had 16,914 murders.

Colombian police said most categories of violent crime rose in 1999 from 1998.

"Going out on the street is an odyssey. Citizens of Bogota are hounded by the fear of suffering express kidnappings in a taxi, being robbed on the bus, attacked in the street, of being mugged," the leading El Tiempo newspaper said in its Sunday edition.

"And if you go out in your own car, you could also be robbed of the vehicle or your belongings," it added.

In a poll entitled, "Fear On The Street," 71.75 percent of those surveyed in Colombia's five largest cities said they were now frightened to go out at night as often as before because of rising crime.

Among respondents, 57.3 percent said they no longer went out at all at night in order to stay home and guard their houses.

Almost 60 percent said they believed the crime rate had spiraled over the past three years, and 38 percent said they had been attacked or mugged in the past 12 months.

More than 85 percent of those polled said they no longer talked to strangers, while about half said they had put bars on the doors and windows of their houses and apartments to reduce the risk of break-ins.

The Feb. 19 poll of 1,005 adults, carried out by polling company Solutions Factory for El Tiempo and the RCN TV and radio network, had an estimated margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

A concerned friend learned of my plans and emailed me this link and article. Thought I'd pass it along. I am an adventurer, but I'll arrange not to have to leave the airport in Bogota.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000307/08/odd-colombia

Afraid to Go Outdoors As Crime Spirals


Updated 8:15 AM ET March 7, 2000
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Almost three-quarters of Colombians are frightened to go out at night and most avoid talking to strangers because of a rising wave of violent crime, a poll published on Sunday suggested.
Most of those polled believe the situation was getting worse in this Andean nation, which is torn by a three-decade-old guerrilla war and already has the dubious distinction of being one of the most violent countries in the hemisphere.

Colombia, with some 40 million inhabitants, is widely recognized as the kidnap capital of the world, with 2,787 abductions last year, according to police statistics. It also has one of the highest murder rates in the hemisphere with 23,172 homicides last year -- only about 3,500 of them a direct result of the civil conflict.

In 1998, the United States, with a population of about 270 million, had 16,914 murders.

Colombian police said most categories of violent crime rose in 1999 from 1998.

"Going out on the street is an odyssey. Citizens of Bogota are hounded by the fear of suffering express kidnappings in a taxi, being robbed on the bus, attacked in the street, of being mugged," the leading El Tiempo newspaper said in its Sunday edition.

"And if you go out in your own car, you could also be robbed of the vehicle or your belongings," it added.

In a poll entitled, "Fear On The Street," 71.75 percent of those surveyed in Colombia's five largest cities said they were now frightened to go out at night as often as before because of rising crime.

Among respondents, 57.3 percent said they no longer went out at all at night in order to stay home and guard their houses.

Almost 60 percent said they believed the crime rate had spiraled over the past three years, and 38 percent said they had been attacked or mugged in the past 12 months.

More than 85 percent of those polled said they no longer talked to strangers, while about half said they had put bars on the doors and windows of their houses and apartments to reduce the risk of break-ins.

The Feb. 19 poll of 1,005 adults, carried out by polling company Solutions Factory for El Tiempo and the RCN TV and radio network, had an estimated margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

I just booked Aces #520 outbound & #521 return LIM to UIO. The fare was 211.22 roundtrip and was classified as a "VSpecial". I spoke with the mileage supervisor at Aces and he assured me that that fare would acrue mileage and count for the million mile promotion with Latin Pass. Does anyone have any info on this? Just want to be doubly sure that it will qualify. Also if anyone needs to call Aeropostal, they have a different phone number than the one that is listed, it is 888-912-8466. (which I was told by all of the Latin airlines that you will need to do 3 days prior to flying to confirm your flight or as someone mentioned on here you could risk losing your seat) One other note--Latin Pass just added a FAQ section to their webpage. Aloha!

Be sure to reconfirm your flights! Two of my flights for this weekend have time changes.