Guayaquil to Santiago de Chile with LATAM Ecuador

a new installment, a new flight report, hereí I tell you cóHow to fly from Guayaquil to Santiago de Chile with LATAM Ecuador direct, úonly non-stop flight that operates between both países and that operates with up to 8 weekly frequencies on Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft.

As I told youé a few weeks ago, volé to Santiago de Chile thanks to the invitationón of LATAM Airlines Ecuador to be part of the main aeron fairáutica, Latin American military and spaceérica, FAITH 2018 that was developedó the first díapril ace in the chilean capital.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, hereí tellé cómo is to fly in the úsingle connectionódirect n that exists up to dífrom today, between Ecuador and Chile.

ticket purchase

How to countó in a previous report flying from San Cristóbal to Guayaquil, and how it is known worldwide, purchasing tickets LATAM.com is fácil and quite ráask to be carried out with concrete and understandable steps within the purchasing process that isá made up of the following steps for international flights:

1. Destination or destinations, date and núpassenger grouper.
2. selectófare or flight number required.
3. Personal data of the passenger(s).
4. book or pay.

LATAM Airlines allows you to carry out, in case you are not sure about the rate or schedules, only when booking the flight, with a cóI say reserve that is valid for 24 hours the client caná make the payment later and even complete it at an airline agencyínea.

The payment gateway allows the use of all credit cardsédito existing in Ecuador and foreigners without anyúno problem.

Additional services

For international flights, LATAM offers a series of additional services for extra payment to the base fare purchased by the passenger.. These extra services include::

• Second or third suitcase in the hold.
• Cabin upgrade.
• I nod with más space (Emergency exit).
• Seats más ahead (from the fourth row, start atás de Premium Economy, up to the eighth row).
• preferential approach.
• LATAM Pass category customersía Black Signature, Black and Platinum access the above points free of charge.
• Special needs.

Luggage

From the rate más económica for international flights in LATAM, allows you to carry up to one suitcase of 23 kilos and even 2 más in the warehouse with an additional cost.

Apart from the suitcase in the hold included for everyone, Users can also carry with themén a carry-on suitcase of up to 8 kilos of weight in Economy up to 16 kilos en Premium Economy, más an artípersonal ass like backpack, cáphoto mara, purse, laptop o similar.

In the event that the carry-on suitcase does not meet the dimensions that must be to be 55 cm x 35 cm x 25 cm (largo, height and width), including pockets, wheels and handle, the duty suitcaseá be sent to the warehouse and caníThere will be an additional cost if it exceeds the excess of your ticket.

Calló the attentionón that on all flights, agents hired by the airlineínea go around the departure lounge offering to send the carry-on suitcases that are moreás larger than what is allowed in the cellar, sin ningúno additional cost. If this is requested of you, dutyás hand over your carry-on suitcase to the airline agentsínea at the entrance door to the planeón.

Check-In

You can check your flight between 48 a 2 hours before flight departure time. the airínea offers several options to do so, it can be from your página web, applyón for teléphones móviles or directly at the airport at the service counter (más anticipation timeón of arrival at the airport or at the self-service kiosks that areán available in the great majoríto airports).

Once you have checked-in you canás print it or present the cóI say QR sent to your email or with the applicationón LATAM directly if you want to support the planet and not waste sheets of paper. Personally, use the applicationón for cell phones, since it is más fácil and it is almost certain that you will not forgetás your cell phone at home.

Airport and Boarding

This point to tell depends a lot on each passenger and their needs., specíphysically if you need to check your suitcase or not. In my case, On the way I only tooké a hand suitcase, so I enteredé directly to the immigration filtersón from José Airporté Joaquín of Olmedo after landing from Quito.

If your case is that you are carrying a suitcase and you need to check it and you have your check-in ready, you can go directly to the exclusive line to make «baggage drop» or luggage delivery. Leaveás your suitcase, I give youán a new boarding pass and straight to filters.

I could see before entering the filters a row of some 40 people waiting to be checked by LATAM, así Keep this in mind since you don't want to miss your flight and worse, stressing out or running through the airport to get to the boarding gate, the idea is to always enjoy every flight.

Usually, pass through Guayaquil in connectionón international is quite ráorderly and efficient, which leaves a good amount of time to wander around the duty free and commercial stores available.

On this flight there wasó a delay of 40 minutes of departure itinerary, but I was notified 24 hours before the operational change in departure time so it was not a surprise.

Vígod of the ancestorón arriving at the gate on a flight from Quito:

The boarding process was carried outó in a row úboarding only and not with the traditional divisionón of rows as generally done by LATAM, this took a whileó más the flight and finally we take off 1 hour late to the original time of the itinerary which was at 12 midday.

Itinerary

It should be noted that this flight operates 8 times a week from Guayaquil, of which, 7 flights are operated by LATAM Ecuador and 1 by LATAM Chile. In high season, they operate until 10 weekly or weekly flightsún the demand warrants it.

Flights operate with the following frequencies and schedules:

Guayaquil – Santiago de Chile

Lu 23	Ma 24	Me 25	Ju 26	We 27	To 28	Do 29	Flight	Avión	Route	Departure	Arrival	operated by	scales	Durationón
							LA547	Airbus 320	GYE – SCL	06:51	12:51	Latam Airlines Group	0	5:00
							LA1447	Airbus 319	GYE – SCL	11:05	17:00	Latam Airlines Ecuador	0	4:55
							LA1447	Airbus 319	GYE – SCL	12:00	17:55	Latam Airlines Ecuador	0	4:55

Santiago de Chile – Guayaquil

Lu 23	Ma 24	Me 25	Ju 26	We 27	To 28	Do 29	Flight	Avión	Route	Departure	Arrival	operated by	scales	Durationón
							LA546	Airbus 320	SCL – GYE	07:50	12:15	Latam Airlines Group	0	5:25
							LA1446	Airbus 319	SCL – GYE	18:00	22:25	Latam Airlines Ecuador	0	5:25
							LA1446	Airbus 319	SCL – GYE	18:55	23:20	Latam Airlines Ecuador	0	5:25

On board

This LATAM Ecuador flight was carried outó entirely with crewóecuadorian n, operó with an Airbus A320-233 with registration numberíChilean cula and its núflight grouper was XL-1447. the grandfatherón with matríwhich CC-BAA has 8 añyou old, núMSN serial grouper 4383 and is propelled by 2 engines IAE V2527E-A5.

The occupationón of the flight was a 100%, but due to the change of team there were free seats, since normally this route operates with Airbus A319 aircraft with capacity for 138 passengers, while the A320 has the capacity to 162 passengers.

A topic that calledó the attentionón and that has been happening for a few months, is that the aerosolíGroup companies have completely stopped using the overhead entertainment screens, where security ads used to be displayed and have returned to the báphysical, demonstrations are carried out manually by crews.

Inflight service on this flight continuedó with 3 options, thoseí, todas fríso and what he repeatedó on the flight back to Quito that was on the Santiago route – Lima – Quito, something that undoubtedly called meó the attentionón, no hot food.

The 3 options were: stuffed chicken with salad, meat wrap and an optionón vegetarian, a very favorable and notable point, sure to helpá to the airíready to gain a new segment, but what a dutyíto be más advertised

Yo pedí chicken stuffed with cheese and jamón next to cheese, corn and cherry tomatoes, good taste, but being fríor it takes away the appeal a little:

Drinks are offered in 2 opportunities, during selectionón of food and minutes laterés again.

In flight

How to counté, overhead screens on all flights are no longer used, so the entertainment is exclusively individual and provided by each passenger on their laptop., cell phone or tablet. There is no longer the movieíGeneral information for the entire aircraftón as it was previously on this route and others or channels of música from the armrests.

Música, series, byínaughty, documentaries and other services, as my favorite, the live map isán available in the APP, whose use and download have noúat no cost and can be downloaded from the Play Store or iTunes before the flight or during the flight with the airplanes WiFi network.

The live map allows you to know the positionógrandfather's exact nón as wellén the remaining flight time. If you like maps and flight data like meí, safe to enterás in this sectionón several times and being a flight of más de 5 hours, we will always wonder whatáhow much is left to arrive.

In a personal way, I don't use this systemás that to see the map, I ratther sleep, review the photos taken in the cámara or continue taking photos of the wing of the avión and it is not because there is no good material from series or moviesículas in this app or in other aerol appsídenies, but until all seats have a USB port, I don't want to be worried about the battery percentageía, although I always travel with a drum kitíto of 4 you carry with me.

what i knowí I recommend for everyone who is going to use entertainment apps, always use audíphones and bring them from home in case they are not available on the planeón or in other aerolíthey just sell them to you, but above all, no one wants to bother the rest of the passengers.

A positive point that generates difference from the Aerolíneas low-cost, is that LATAM offers blankets and pillows at no cost and in all seats, something that isá losing in búlosing less weight in the planeón, which generates fuel savings.

Concludedón

It's a long flight and the Airbus A319 can become incóway and feel smallñor for a flight of más de 5 hours. Of course, there are flights málong s in this type of avión, for example the one you haveíto Tame between Quito and Sao Paulo with 6 flight hours.

The product for this type of flight is a little small, but alsoén adjusts to the reality of the market between both países. Although demand is important and supply reaches 8 weekly flights that go up to 10, there is a lot of competition víto Lima, Panamá and Bogotaá what a potential loss to have an avión más big on this route.

An interesting alternative to beía un Airbus A321, but the difference in service does not changeía lot, but yesí triggeríto greater capacity on a route with high demand and prices generally high above the $800 O $500 dólares en graduationón.

What I have always thought as a user of this route at least 1 time every 2 años, is to see a Boeing 767-300 and in the future to the Dreamliner on this route, best service and comfort, but instead, It seems to me that they are very large and their objectives are long-range routes of más de 7 hours. For example LATAM Ecuador operates the Boeing 767 between Guayaquil and Lima with less than 2 flight hours, see this avión to Santiago is not so far-fetched in the future either, but the market defineá thaté happens.

With the arrival of new aerolíadvantages to this market such as the possibility of Sky Airline e incluso de JetSmart, LATAM Airlines dutyá differentiate your product, that to más of not being low cost, be seená forced to offer a better product and this change, Let's hope it can be seen from the planeón and hot food ;).

Additional data

• As an Ecuadorian, you can enter Chile only with the cécitizen dulaía, but I always recommend using the passport to add a stampás, that can be used when requesting a visa from another countryís.
• You have to take into account the time difference with Chile, 2 hours más that Ecuador in summer and 1 más in winter.
• The best international passenger departureó a lot, congratulations to Santiago airport for this.
• Santiago Airport isá growing and building a new terminal, so you caníthere is something congestedón and disorder at the airport exit, but it will be worth itá the sorrow.