IB or LA in business ?
 

DONE5 probably Nov 2005

I have the coupon availability to do either
IB EZE-> MAD direct
LA EZE->SCL->MAD

general reading of various comments indicate this is IB's
flagship route and is their best - but from a relatively low base.

LA is about 1000 miles more :)
but the connection leaves about 10 hours earlier meing one less evening meal in BA.....

Is the SCL lounge suitable for a 3 hour connection?

Thoughts from people who regularly fly EZE/SCL to MAD?


Thanks

WF

Yes, most definitely.


I don't quite fly the route 'regularly' but from my experience right now I'd say LA is far superior. Come nov '05 I wouldn't mind trying IB's new J, although in terms of service I frankly doubt IB will ever match LA, in equipment, yes, maybe, but LAN's friendly FAs are a world apart from IB's dragons.

Old IB J is much worse than LA. New IB J was to have been their F replacement and promised to be much better. Reality is yet to be determined, but IB has decided to keep F and not remove it from all planes. Whether this has resulted in a downscaling of the new J is unknown. The seat rollout schedule is very slow, unclear that enough of the fleet is converted by end of 2005 to guarantee all flights EZE-MAD will have the new J. So there is risk in getting the old J (known to be bad) and also risk as to whether the new J will be competitive with LA (I think it will be, but this is IB, so who knows?). They do have a good F service, so the potential is there to do a good, even great, J service.

I'm assuming you've ruled out BA EZE/LHR/MAD - or does it seem like a waste of a segment?

Alas BA does not fly EZE-LHR every day.
I chose a wrong one :rolleyes:

Especially since CAI is the stop after EZE.....

WF