Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in a nutshell
Chile's largest international airport is located 18 kilometres west of the centre of the capital Santiago de Chile.
The airport is named after Arturo Merino Benítez, the founder of the Chilean Air Force. Alternatively, the name Nuevo Pudahuel is also used for the airport, after the neighbourhood in which it is located.
Santiago de Chile Airport is the main base for LATAM, JetSmart and Sky Airline.
The dense domestic network is complemented by flights throughout South America. Direct long-haul routes to the USA, Europe and Australia, specifically to the following destinations:
- Amsterdam - KLM
- Atlanta - Delta
- Auckland - LATAM
- Barcelona - Level
- Dallas - American Airlines
- Houston - United
- Istanbul - Turkish Airlines
- London - British Airways
- Los Angeles - LATAM
- Madrid - LATAM, Iberia
- Melbourne - LATAM
- Miami - American Airlines
- New York - LATAM
- Paris - Air France
- Sydney - LATAM
- Toronto - Air Canada
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Some information about the airport:
- on arrival you need to fill in a questionnaire about imported crops, on the way to the immigration officials you will come across a QR code with a link
- surprisingly there are no lounges at departure, there is only one for Skyteam flights
- beware of shopping before departure! There are loads of shops with interesting stuff in the departure lounge behind security, but they don't operate as "Duty Free" so they won't give you bottles of liquids in the proper packaging for transport! We bought Calafate syrup this way with our last pennies and the cashier kept trying to explain something to us about how we might have a problem with the plane. And we soon understood - there is a pretty thorough check for liquids in carry-on luggage on the way from Gate to the plane. There's no x-ray and they don't make you take stuff completely out of your bag, but they do pat it down pretty thoroughly. Luckily for us, they didn't find Calafate and we had half a day at our layover in Toronto, so we bought small bottles in town and poured it into them.
Latam has one of the best lounges in South America.
But you can't go there on Priority Pass
I believe that, but no one here has written about PP. I read that there are none :) You can go Skyteam on PP. And you can buy into Latam. Then there are about 4 more on national flights.