A great sale to Iguazu Falls. Since this is a LAN fare, you can do all kinds of fun stopovers in South America. Here’s pricing from various cities:
- New York [JFK]- $500
- Miami [MIA] – $491
- Los Angeles [LAX] – $435
Update 12/7/2014 @ 10:45PM Eastern – this is once again available from New York and Miami.
Sample Travel Date:
- Sample from New York
- February 9th – 17th, 2015
Fare Availability:
- Valid for travel from January 7th, 2015 – July 10th, 2015. Must purchase by December 2nd
- Please note that while this fare is valid at time of posting, if this post is more than two days old, the fare is likely gone.
How to Search for Availability:
- Use ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search and use the following search criteria:
- Departing from: JFK
- Outbound Advanced Routing Code: la+
- Destination: IGU
- Return Advanced Routing Code: la+
- (Click on Advanced Routing Codes link to enable advanced routing code input)
- (For Los Angeles departures, replace JFK with LAX on the Departing from: field)
- (For Miami departures, replace JFK with MIA on the Departing from: field)
- Select “See calendar of lowest fares”
- Length of stay “0-7” (This is just a sample, you can use any 7 day date range like 3-10, 7-14 etc)
- You cannot buy tickets using ITA. To buy, follow our instructions below
- Beginner’s Guide on How to Use Matrix by ITA Software
- How to Read Airfare Rules and Use It to Your Advantage
ITA is getting slammed today. If it errors out on you and you get an error box, do not hit the “search again” button. Instead, go to the address bar and hit enter. It will rerun the search. If it error out again, go to the address bar and hit enter again and again.
Fare Class:
- US and South America: O
- Within South America: S and Y
Routing:
- JFK – SCL (Santiago de Chile) – GIG (Rio de Janeiro) – IGU (Iguazu Falls) – GRU (Sao Paulo) – SCL – JFK
Stopover:
- One permitted at $75
- How to Take Advantage of a Stopover
Mileage:
- 14,504 miles or 3.4 cents per mile. LAN is a member of the Oneworld Alliance and American partner. This fare will earn 100% mileage with American. However, because this is an O fare and the Intra-South American segments are not, American will credit the intra-South American segments at 25%. We had luck with getting those segment manually posted at 100% through AAdvantage Customer Care. But your mileage may vary.
How to Book:
- Support us by using our Orbitz link to book with dates found on ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search. Make sure you select “Additional Search Options” and then “Narrow the search to my preferred airlines” and select LAN
- If Orbitz errors out, Support us by using our Priceline link to book with dates found on ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search. Make sure you enter “LAN” on the Airline textbox in the Advanced Flight Options section.
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do the miles count as elite-qualifying, if transferred to American?
thanks
@joetraveler – yes. it is not transfer btw. you just add your AA # to the booking and it will be credited to your AA account.
I was able to have Priceline price out an itinerary with a 4-day stopover in SCL for $588 JFK-SCL-IGU via GIG and GRU for mid June 2015 and possibly a long layover in Sao Paulo. Decent price! Thanks, guys!
How did you get GIG in there? I’d really like to fit Rio in.
@Tim – have a great trip.
Lights within south american on lan will only earn %25 miles?
@Miah – for O class fares like this — the segments within South America will post as 25%.
ITA is not showing the same availability as everything else in FEB.
How do you specify the layover?
@HJ – please read the stopover guide in the post. finding a stopover is a manual process — it is all trial and error.
From what I can tell, you cannot have a stopover if its a TAM flight.
Cant make to work this fare from LAX in March, 2015, Tried few times and it’s not visible on Priceline or Orbitz..(using your links)..
I took this trip September 2014, same price and same airline.
I had an AWESOME time.
Thanks The Flight Deal!