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TAM and LAN Airlines Commence Code-Share Flights between Brazil and Chile on November 5

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Agreement will also include LAN Peru and Argentina in November

TAM and the LAN alliance -- LAN Airlines, LAN Peru, LAN Argentina and LAN Ecuador -- will commence a code-share flight agreement on November 5, beginning with LAN Airlines (Chile). The flights will be available to sell beginning October 31. LAN Peru and LAN Argentina will follow in the month of November.

The partnership, effective next week, will allow TAM to offer its passengers flights to 14 cities in Chile, such as Antofagasta, Calama, Concepcion, Iquique, La Serena, Puerto Montt, Punta Arenas and Valdivia. LAN clients will also be eligible for Tam flights to 12 Brazilian cities, including Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Florianopolis, Brasilia, Recife, Manaus and Porto Seguro, among others.


Code sharing will increase the number of seats available between Sao Paulo and Santiago, as the two companies will operate with shared codes on flights between Brazil and Chile.


In addition to the Sao Paulo-Lima route with LAN Peru, the agreement will cover 11 other cities in Peru (Arequipa, Chiclayo, Cuzco, Puerto Maldonado and Tarapoto, among others) and nine Brazilian cities served by TAM (Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Salvador, Manaus, Florianopolis, Foz do Iguacu and Porto Seguro).


The partnership with LAN Argentina will allow for an increase in number of flights between Brazil and Argentina for both countries' customers, with flights leaving Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Florianopolis. Destinations operated by TAM and LAN Argentina in their respective countries are also being considered. The code share agreement will include LAN flights from Buenos Aires to Bariloche, Com. Rivadavia, El Calafate, Mendonza, Rio Gallegos, Salta and Ushuaia, in Argentina; and TAM flights from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to 14 cities in Brazil.


Another benefit passengers will reap from the commercial alliance between TAM and LAN is that trips will be completed with just one ticket from start to finish, with luggage sent to the final destination. In November, passengers of either company will be able to accumulate and redeem points through the TAM Loyalty Program and miles with LANPASS on flights operated by either company.

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