LAN/TAM – Under $600: New York / Los Angeles / Miami – Rio de Janeiro / Sao Paulo and Others plus Iguazu Falls, Brazil. Roundtrip, including all Taxes

The under $500 Iguazu Falls deal from New York, Los Angeles and Miami that we posted on Friday and Saturday allows for stopovers in South America. Doing this will require trial and error plus time!

Potential stopover points include:

  • Rio de Janeiro
  • Sao Paulo
  • Santiago de Chile
  • Lima

We will show stopovers in Rio and Sao Paulo from New York. Iguazu Falls is served by LAN from Lima (LIM) and it’s affiliate TAM from Belém (BEL), Brasília, Curitiba (CWB), Maceió (MCZ), Rio de Janeiro-Galeão (GIG) , Salvador da Bahia (SSA), São Paulo (GRU). From the United States, LAN serves Santiago de Chile (SCL) from Miami and New York, Lima (LIM) from Los Angeles, Miami and New York. It seems to require the US to South American segment to be operated by LAN, but US to US segments can be operated by American and intra-South American segments can be a mixture of LAN, LAN Peru, TAM and the rest of LAN’s South American affiliates.

Finding stopovers is a manual process and requires trial and error. We always recommend finding roundtrip availability first, so find New York or Los Angeles or Miami – Iguazu Falls roundtrip first. Once you find availability for the roundtrip, then start playing with the multi-city function to see if there’s availability for a stopover inside those dates. If you want to do two stopovers (it might exist, we haven’t looked), it is probably advisable to put one stopover before Iguazu Falls and one after. There’s no automated process! So just play around with the multi-city function on Orbitz.

We managed to get our stopovers to price at $522; expect it to be under $600 if you find a stopover to work.

View of Rio de Janeiro from Christ the Redeemer. Photo: PedroKirilos, used under Creative Commons License (By 2.0)

View of Rio de Janeiro from Christ the Redeemer. Photo: PedroKirilos, used under Creative Commons License (By 2.0)

Fare Availability:

  • Valid for travel September 5th – December 10th.

How to Book:

  • Support us by using our Orbitz link to book with dates found on ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search. Make sure you select Multi-City and enter each segment individually.

New York – Rio de Janeiro for $522 — click on the image and then the expand icon on the top right hand corner will show you the exact itinerary for all these sample bookings.

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  • Sample Date
    • October 28th: JFK – SCL (Santiago de Chile)
    • October 29th: SCL – GIG (Rio de Janeiro)
    • November 3rd: GIG – IGU (Iguazu Falls)
    • November 4th: IGU – GIG
    • November 4th: GIG – SCL
    • November 4th: SCL – JFK
  • You would enter each segment individually on Orbitz

New York – Sao Paulo for $522

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  • Sample Date
    • September 16th: JFK – SCL
    • September 17th: SCL – GRU (Sao Paulo)
    • September 24th: GRU – IGU
    • September 25th: IGU – GIG
    • September 25th: GIG – SCL
    • September 25th: SCL – GIG
  • You would enter each segment individually on Orbitz

Los Angeles – Sao Paulo – $613 (this took us a lot of time to find)

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  • Sample Date:
  • October 7th: LAX – MIA (Miami)
  • October 8th: MIA – LIM
  • October 8th: LIM – GRU
  • October 12th: GRU – IGU
  • October 14th: IGU – LAX
  • You would enter each segment individually on CheapTickets. Notice we enter multiple segments on the enter as IGU-LAX — there’s a six segment limitation on most engines, we just basically put a bunch of them together. Trial and error. We went thru 5 online travel agencies and various combos to get this one to work. Trial and error. It is there.

Miami – Sao Paulo for $515

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  • Sample Date:
    • October 28th: MIA – BOG (Bogota)
    • October 28th: BOG – GRU
    • November 3rd: GRU – IGU
    • November 4th: IGU – MIA
  • You would enter each segment individually on Orbitz – notice we condense two segments on into one on the way back. Instead of IGU – LIM – MIA, we enter it as IGU-MIA. Trial and error.

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Background Information:

  • Visa: US Citizens – Required prior to arrival – $160 – $180. Other nationals, check the TIMATIC Visa Database
  • Currency: Brazilian Real (BRL) $1USD = 2.22 BRL

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