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LAN Airlines is to increase its services between
Sydney and Santiago, Chile, from daily to ten per week, with three
additional flights to be offered from 26 March 2012, through a new
codeshare arrangement with fellow oneworld alliance airline
Qantas.
LAN will offer Economy and Business Class seats
on the new nonstop services, which will depart Sydney every
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday morning as LAN flight LA 806,
returning as LA 807 every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday.
“South
America is one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for both
leisure and business travel, and Santiago is one of the most important destinations for travellers from Australia,” said
Patricio Aylwin, LAN’s Managing Director for Australia, New
Zealand and Asia. “By linking up with Qantas
on the Sydney-Santiago route, we can improve access to South
America for the rapidly-increasing number of Australians visiting
the continent by offering more flights and the best onward
connections. South America has never been closer.”
The new
codeshare arrangement will enable both airlines to offer seats on
10 flights per week to South America, with LAN already operating
daily one-stop service with Airbus A340-300 aircraft and the three
Qantas flights to be operated with Boeing 747-400s.
LAN’s
daily one-stop flights from Sydney to Santiago, via Auckland, New
Zealand, connect to a network of over 80 South American destinations.
Recently, LAN upgraded its schedules on key
routes beyond Santiago to improve connections between flights
arriving from Australia and New Zealand, and onward services to
major South American destinations including Buenos Aires in
Argentina, Peru’s capital Lima, the iconic Brazilian city of Rio
de Janeiro and a range of points in Chile.
LAN also offers
through its affiliates services to major South American tourist
destinations including Cusco, Peru, better-known as the gateway to
the ancient Inca ruins in Machu Picchu, the spectacular Iguassu
Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina, the mystical Chilean
territory of Easter Island; Ecuador’s extraordinary Galapagos
Islands; and the port city of Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost
point in South America and the world’s main starting point for
cruises to Antarctica.
For travellers from Australia, the new
codeshare between LAN and Qantas will provide convenient new
connections and feeder networks at both ends of the
Sydney-Santiago route, with LAN offering an important network
throughout South America and Qantas throughout Australia.
LAN’s
current flight LA 800 departs Sydney daily at 09:40, flying via
Auckland to arrive in Santiago by early afternoon. LAN’s Airbus A340-300 aircraft are configured to seat 260 passengers in a
two-class cabin – 42 in Premium Business Class and 218 in Economy Class.
The new nonstop flight, LA 806, will leave
Sydney at 10:45 each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Passengers from Australian destinations other than Sydney can
connect with LAN flights either in Sydney or Auckland.
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