Not just South America

[Dinah]

The airline was Lan Chile (also known as Lan Peru or Lan). Sebastián Piñera is the majority shareholder, I believe. He lost last year's run off election in Chile to Michelle Bachelet, and judging from the way Lan operates, that's a good thing.

Lan's prices often seem good, but anything out of the ordinary will make the price skyrocket. I changed my return date from Oct 1 to Nov 1 and it cost me an additional $525. When i asked to change my destination from Arica, Chie, to Tacna or Arequipa Peru, a shorter flight, they quoted me a price of $1825 CAD, more than the original cost of the Arica-Vancover-Arica flight.

Lan appears to know nothing about public relations or customer service. My travel agent said Lan Chile in Vancouver had a couldn't care less attitude and when i contacted Lan in Santiago I was more or less told to get over it.

Pardon my rant. Obviously I have't gotten over it.

[Chiprat]

Hi,
My name is Tom.
I have been living in Tlalnepantla Mexico for the past 4 years, I'm an expat from Mississauga Ontario.
A Mexico forum would be great.
Yes Mexico is North America Geographicaly, and Latin American by culture.
Mexicans get a little offended when people refer to Mexico being a Central or South American Country.
Hello to all my fellow expat's in Mexico and Latin America, around the globe and back home eh.

Tom