LATAM Is Adding Nonstop Flights Between Sao Paulo & Las Vegas

Of Course! I love São Paulo and the paulanistas. Any new award availability would be great.

@Nathan

Paulistas 🙂

Ben, sorta confused. I have taken and love the LATAM flght from GRU-LAX. Am I missing something?

Missed LAX-GRU

I think LATAM flies LAX SCL.

I'm curious to see operational performance on 763 flying this far from LAS in the summer. Everyone wondered if Qatar could make it work and I think we know the answer there. There probably isn't a lot of cargo exit-LAS but everyone from Brazil likes to pack their house in 2 bags and check them on every flight.

Agreed. Surprised at the 1PM departure from LV in the summer for a plane that is almost maxed out with fuel. I would have expected the LV departure to be a night.

LATAM also flies to LIM from LAX, and this flight used to connect onward to GRU (not sure it does anymore, but for awhile it was advertised as one-stop service).

@George, maybe @Nathan meant Paulistan(o/a)s?

I ticketed LATAM’s LAX-SCL 787 Dreamliner Nonstop for 90,000
Avios Lie Flat Bed Svc. in 3 weeks. It’s a great long haul to S.America.

LAS is a huge destination for Brazilian high-rollers. if you chat with the casino hosts at the top properties like Wynn, they essentially have 2 groups of region-specific hosts and marketing teams to cater for -

"Asian marketing", which is mostly Chinese clientele with some Vietnamese,
and
"Latin marketing", which is by far comprised of clients from MEX+GRU

It's also the middle of the winter (50s and 60s) in São Paulo.

@Mark

Dear, when you have the new iPhone X in Brazil costing double the price that it's over there, you can bet your sweet arse that most of us go there and buy tons and tons of stuff lol.

The new iMac Pro? 11.541,95 USD dear...

LATAM is aggressively expanding nonstop routes to U.S. destinations so I'd keep an eye out for them. Not the best service but an option to consider.

@Mark, I believe there is a Brazilian law that requires providing pax with 2 free bags with 70lbs of weight.

And I say law because I cant see any other reason why US airlines would continue to offer 2 free bags weighing 70lbs to Brazil and only Brazil.

IE:
https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/baggage/oversize-and-overweight-baggage.jsp

@ben - wondered when someone was going to post that it's wintertime in the southern hemisphere... And who cares summer or winter in Vegas? I used to have family there, we'd not go visit THEM in the summertime, but if you're planning to stay at the pool or inside all day long who really cares how hot it is outside? Either way I'd avoid Hoover Dam, we were there in late June, people passing out walking over the dam it was so hot.

@JJJ: They changed that rule in march
Most airlines still gives 2 free checked bags, but max 51lbs each.
Maybe American Airlines didn't changed that already
And some airlines like TAP, are selling fares without checked bags.

It doesn't need to be city with a large Brazilian population, that's just ridiculous.

Actually Brazilians have school holidays from the end of November to February (since that is when it is summer in the southern hemisphere) and they may only have one or two weeks during our summer (in June and July). I guess the reason they made the flight during our summer is because Brazilians don't like the cold and during this time it will be warm in Las Vegas.

@Neil, Brazilians have school holidays from the last week of June to the end of July and then in December and January. So, July is considered high season for traveling in Brazil due to the school holidays.
LATAM is testing this route during high season (flight numbers starting with 9 for LATAM Brasil usually are for temporary extra flights). I'm sure that, if the load factor is high enough, it'll become a permanent flight during both school holiday seasons.
I don't believe summer or winter in Las Vegas was a factor in their decision.

GRU-LAX is done by American, which is partners with LATAM, but in this case this is a LATAM specific flight, hence the first ever flight by them to the west coast-ish.