{"id":13492,"date":"2018-02-02T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T19:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=13492"},"modified":"2024-08-26T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T16:00:05","slug":"avianca-to-equalize-peruvian-fares-to-cusco-and-other-domestic-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2018\/avianca-to-equalize-peruvian-fares-to-cusco-and-other-domestic-routes\/13492\/","title":{"rendered":"Avianca to equalize Peruvian fares to Cusco and other domestic routes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>[Originally published February 2, 2018]<\/strong> AVIANCA Airline says that starting Monday it will make its Super Promo and Econo rates for domestic routes available again to foreign tourists after nearly a decade of making them pay more than Peruvians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision comes a little more than a month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2017\/latam-reportedly-abandoning-discriminatory-fare-policy-for-foreign-visitors-to-peru\/13372\/\">LATAM Airline announced<\/a> it was dropping a similar discriminatory fare policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\">Avianca said in an email to travel agencies that its fare restriction will still apply to&nbsp;<span class=\"\">foreign\/non-resident passengers with tickets issued before February 5, 2018.<\/span><br><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UPDATE: AVIANCA and LATAM have since clarified their policies. The higher rates for foreign travelers have NOT disappeared for tickets purchased on-line. Economy coach fares are available to foreign tourists when booked through an IATA Peruvian travel agency \u2014 not directly on-line.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was in 2008 that LATAM, then known as LAN, implemented its Peruvian Residents ONLY policy,&nbsp;barring foreign tourists from purchasing coach tickets at the normal base fares. AVIANCA followed suit soon after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both airlines faced ever-increasing competition from other airlines that did not make foreign tourists pay more to fly from Lima to Cusco and other destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Originally published February 2, 2018] AVIANCA Airline says that starting Monday it will make its Super Promo and Econo rates for domestic routes available again to foreign tourists after nearly a decade of making them pay more than Peruvians. The decision comes a little more than a month after LATAM Airline announced it was dropping&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-13492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13492"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=13492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}