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New route to Iguazu Falls
TRAVELCONSUMERDAILY.COM LAN, the carrier group that has grown to become South America’s dominant airline network after the demise of Brazilian national carrier Varig, has begun to establish new routes that make it easier for leisure tourists to visit the continent’s best known nature destinations. With operational bases in Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina, subsidiary LAN Peru has announced a new four-times-a-week service between Peruvian capital Lima and the vast Iguazu Falls on the border of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, complementing regular services by LAN Argentina between Iguazu and Buenos Aires. The new flights, beginning next January, are the first direct link between Peru and Iguazu, which is now reached only via Argentina or Brazil. Depending upon the water flow, Iguazu features as many as 270 waterfalls, the tallest of which is approximately 80 metres high – more than Niagara Falls on the US-Canada border. Created by a geological fault about 200,000 years ago, the Iguazu Falls were first seen by Spanish explorers in 1541. Since 1991, the Iguazu Falls have also helped to power the huge Itaipu hydro-electricity plant, which provides up to 40% of the electricity needs of Argentina and Brazil. LAN Peru also recently announced the first twice weekly flights between Lima and Easter Island (Isle de Pascua), now served by seven LAN Chile flights a week from Santiago and two a week from Papeete in French Polynesia. LAN Ecuador will start flights from Quito to Galapagos Islands from November. For the third consecutive year, LAN was this year named the best South American airline in the global Skytrax Awards. From Australia, LAN Chile – a member of the global oneworld airline alliance - offers six weekly Airbus A340-300 flights to Santiago, Chile, via Auckland, New Zealand, with onward connections to destinations throughout South America.
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