Quoting allrite (Reply 168):
I'm sure, as usual, you have appropriate figures to backup the statement, but I was under the impression that there is more corporate business between Chile and Australia than with Argentina. |
I'm sure they're out there if you wanted to have a look.
Having been on that flight twice this year and talking to the crew both times, and knowing a couple of
QF crew members who basically only do the
SCL run, I'm comfortable enough in making that statement.
Quoting allrite (Reply 168):
Would SCL provide better connectivity into Brazil for Qantas than EZE would for Air NZ? |
Quoting QF2220 (Reply 169):
EZE and AEP probably offer similar (with some better and some worse) connections but the airport split is a problem. I can't say much about specific departures, thats another exercise. |
As others have said,
EZE isn't really set up for connections with their being far more frequent service into Brazil from
AEP than
SCL. But you certainly wouldn't want to be connecting from
EZE to
AEP!
Quoting RyanairGuru (Reply 173):
Don't take LAN unless you want to wait 4 hours, you take AC from SCL-EZE and KL from EZE-SCL. The connections are around the two hour mark and when priced ex-SYD actually work out slightly cheaper than LAN. |
On the flight I was on in February, the lady sitting next to me in Premium Economy was part of a tour group of about 18 who were all in
QF Premium Economy. All of them were connecting to the
AC flight.
If you also want an interesting intra South America flight there is also an
AF flight between
MVD and
EZE operated by a 77W which I took back to
EZE just for the hell of it.
Quoting QF2220 (Reply 175):
Without drilling through the press releases, does NZ have the same problem as QF had, lack of Argentine government approval of codeshares so as not to compete with AR? I think i recall NZ and AR did enter into some sort of agreement, but is it as user friendly as it could be? |
AR and
NZ have an agreement in place where
NZ will codeshare with
AR. So they won't have the same issues as
QF had wanting to code on LAN Argentina.
Quoting Sylus (Reply 176):
I feel it was the lack of suitable aircraft that caused AR to drop AKL, rather than the lack of demand from both Australia and NZ. Perhaps there is more demand from NZ and Aussie to Argentina than we realise? |
There definitely is. During the Summer it is apparently quite easy to come across Aussie's in Buenos Aires. Hence
QF increasing services to
SCL and the
NZ service to
EZE. Overall
SCL is the much better hub of the 2 but, as I said, the lack of
QF codeshares into Argentina due to the Argentine Government makes it a bit more difficult for
QF to market Argentina. As Ryanairguru said, the connections to
GIG and
GRU from
SCL are perfectly timed!
My question was which actual companies do it at each hub? i.e. Menzies, Dnata etc
