Expert: Roberto Gomes - 6/23/2005

Question
Hi

My name is Takis, I am from Greece-Europe and I will be visiting Latin America in August. My questions concerns prices for air-tickets. I am trying to book some flights and the prices I get are quite expensive. It seems that they have special prices for foreigners. I also have discovered that there are domestic flights which are not shown in agencies outside local countries. I am interested in flying within Argentina. How can I overpass this problem?

Specifically I want to travel between Buenos Aires and Iguazu and I have found that apart from the expensive airlines Aerolineas Argentinas, there is also another airline called ARG (former LAPA), which has less frequent flights but better fares. I have searched everywhere but I was unable to locate contact info for them. The only contact I found was the
airline's chat room http://08107777arg.com/ but I cannot figure out where is the chat room.

I would be grateful if you could give some help on the above

Thanks in advance!

Takis

Answer
Dear Takis,

I normally do not answer questions regarding best fares, but I can help giving you directions.

Austral Lineas Aereas does not have a website, but you can buy tickets using its commercial partner Aerolineas Argentinas. By the way all Aerolineas' flights are operated by Austral.

Southern Winds flights can be searched using the link
http://www.fly-sw.com/es/home.jsp but when I checked was unavailable. You can try also
http://www.abstravel.com/airlines/southernwinds.shtml

Hope this helps.
Best Regards,
R. Gomes