{"id":21848,"date":"2011-07-19T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/lan-launches-speedy-new-connections-to-rio-from-australia-and-new-zealand-3\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T12:15:00","slug":"lan-launches-speedy-new-connections-to-rio-from-australia-and-new-zealand-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/07\/lan-launches-speedy-new-connections-to-rio-from-australia-and-new-zealand-3\/","title":{"rendered":"LAN launches speedy new connections to Rio from Australia and New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-e8VP7pOekpk\/TiV1SvrCBSI\/AAAAAAAAPX0\/oPQ9t7HhmGA\/s1600\/Rio%2Bde%2BJaneiro%2BBrazil-705346.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631035873991722274\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-e8VP7pOekpk\/TiV1SvrCBSI\/AAAAAAAAPX0\/oPQ9t7HhmGA\/s320\/Rio%2Bde%2BJaneiro%2BBrazil-705346.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>LAN Airlines has introduced speedy new connections from Santiago, Chile, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for passengers arriving from Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Flight LA800, LAN&#8217;s daily service from Sydney and Auckland, arrives in Santiago at 11.40am.<\/p>\n<p>It connects quickly with new flight LA 772, an Airbus A320 service departing Santiago at 12.25pm and arriving in Rio at 5.35pm \u2013 a journey of 4 hours, 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The return flight, LA 773, departs Rio at 6.25pm, arriving in Santiago at 10.05pm, a flight of 4 hours, 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>This connects smoothly with LAN flight LA 801, which departs Santiago at 10.50 each night, bound for Auckland and Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brazil is the largest country in South America, and one of the fastest growing in terms of both business and leisure travel,&#8221; said Patricio Aylwin, LAN&#8217;s General Manager Australia, New Zealand and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rio de Janeiro is the best-known and most iconic city in Brazil, and one of the most exciting not only in South America, but in the world,&#8221; said Mr Aylwin. &#8220;We are confident that this new connection will provide not only faster access to Rio, but the opportunity for visitors to experience even more of South America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LAN operates more flights from Australia and New Zealand to South America than any other airline.<\/p>\n<p>Within South America, LAN flies to almost 60 destinations in 10 countries, and continues to build its operations on the continent, one of the world&#8217;s fastest growing travel markets.<\/p>\n<p>To accommodate the continuing growth in visitor numbers, the LAN group has placed orders for in excess of 100 new aircraft, including new Airbus A320-family jets to help build frequency on existing routes in South America and to open new markets.<\/p>\n<p>LAN is a member of the oneworld global airline alliance.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to make a booking contact travel agents or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lan.com\/\">www.lan.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline; visibility: hidden;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAN Airlines has introduced speedy new connections from Santiago, Chile, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for passengers arriving from Australia and New Zealand. Flight LA800, LAN&#8217;s daily service from Sydney and Auckland, arrives in Santiago at 11.40am. It connects quickly with new flight LA 772, an Airbus A320 service departing Santiago at 12.25pm and arriving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}