Flights around South America
Replies: 4 - Last Post: Dec 21, 2012 6:50 AM Last Post By: mumrahtel
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Flights around South America
Hi allI'm currently in Panama having spent four months travelling through Central America and am about to fly one-way to Argentina.
I've been organising the trip very much as and when I go, and am only just looking at multiple flights around South America. Big mistake it now seems.
Does anybody know of any cheap deals for buying multiple flights around the continent?
I've only just discovered LAN's Airpass, which looks brilliant, but I don't think I can get it - they say you have to arrive in SA on a LAN flight (or One World partner), but I'm flying Copa, which annoyingly isn't one of their partners.
Do other airlines do anything similar? I can't find one (or find a thread on it, but feel it must exist, so apologies if it does).
Flights I'm looking to get are BA to Ushuaia (Arg), Santiago to BA and probably a couple in Brazil, for starters. Buying them all individually, however, is looking very expensive.
Any tips much appreciated! Thanks
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If you know the order of your flights and the dates, it can be convenient to buy (or search for) them as multi-city flights. My Arica-BA flight via Santiago got much cheaper once I added a BA-Santiago "return" flight (which I will actually need.)2
Copa is member of Star Alliance and Star alliance only offers a Brazil Airpass (click for details) in South America.Aerolíneas Argentinas offers a South America pass and a Visite Argentina pass. Take a look here for the details and conditions of these passes to see if you qualify.
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Star Alliance has some airpasses which would include COPA and now Avianca flights.If you want to get to Buenos Aires one-way from Panama, check flying Avianca Panama-Bogota-Lima (side flghts to/from Cuzco if desired) -Buenos Aires (alternate Montevideo).
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Thanks for the all info guys. Unfortunately all the passes require booking a return flight to South America and then usually booking the local flights at the same time, all before arriving on the continent, so they weren't for me.I've ended up booking a few single flights and long distant buses - apparently prices have gone up massively in the last few years but I've still been really surprised at just how much they cost.
Thanks again!
