Yes, class "U" (business award) is common for LA and AA (among others). I would call again, asking for a specific flight, as shown on lan.com.

I'm an anthropology major, but sadly have never been thought of as a deep thinking creature. Thus, I agree that about 3 days is a nice stop. I was out there last summer and it was just fantastic.

I definitely suggest picking up The Complete Guide to Easter Island from the Easter Island Foundation if you make the trip.

REALLY???! Are there other AA partners where this is the case? IberiaPlus told me award seats were available on a flight I wanted, but they were not released to AA on a OneWorld ticket.

That may be so, I don't know. What I mean is simply that business class awards book into "U" for AA and LA, and IB too, for that matter.

Sorry I misunderstood. I thought you meant any award seat available to a LAN frequent flyer is also available to someone with an AA OneWorld award. That is not the case with IB. FYI, such an award is designated by IB as U.

This is the case for most OW carriers. i.e. they have more availability for their own members than they have for their partners.

So if you see availability for a member for a specific program it doesn't insure that there is availbility by using mileage from another program.

Yes, that's my understanding. I was surprised when I thought I read LAN might be different.

If you are using AA for your routing wouldn't it be easier to just call AA rep. and ask for it? Maybe you should consider going on a round-the-world, just to make the alliance happy..=D

OH! and flights to IPC/PPT are not daily, so be careful with that!