"great plane, woeful service"
S Simpson (Australia)
✅ Verified Review | Great plane, woeful service from Sydney to Rio de Janeiro via Auckland and Santiago. The only good thing about my LATAM experience was the plane on the Auckland-Santiago route. Great plane, clean, modern, great technology and comfortable. The booking process was painful with multiple problems on the which continued when I tried to book a vegetarian meal (Painful and lenghthy experience) and check in online (website malfunctioning). The first leg Sydney - Auckland was with Jetstar who LATAM seemed to have not informed them that I had connecting flights and the counter staff had no idea how to deal with this, and the gave me a boarding pass for the Santiago leg and said to go to the transit, which I did and then found out that my baggage was lost in the airport. Jetstar staff all gone and LATAM staff had no idea or ability to contact Jetstar, but this was eventually sorted out. The food on the flight was pretty horrible, cold soggy uninteresting meals. Staff were nice though. when I got to Santiago it was on time but the chaos and confusion in the airport the LATAM desk overrun with angry peopel shouting, people jumping the queue staff confused and people missing connecting flights etc - it was awful. Eventually after two hours of that mess I got my boarding pass then the next plane was delayed by over two hours with no LATAM staff available or interested to help. The gate staff were overwhelemed with crowds of angry and frustrated people in overcrowded gates with so much chaos, in a filthy airport that just was not coping with the volume. I gave up trying to ask any staff what was going on and to find things the onle info I got was from shop keepers. The worst customer service ever.
Aircraft | Boeing 787-9 |
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Sydney to Rio de Janeiro via Auclkland / Santiago |
Date Flown | July 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"I had to cancel my trip"
Marcel Parent (Canada)
✅ Verified Review | 5 months of waiting and I do not get my money back from Latam. My wife and I bought our tickets in August 2016 to fly March 2017. Being Peruvian she paid less. Being a tourist I had to pay a complete fare but my ticket was refundable. I had to cancel my trip. I telephoned Latam a month in advance and they assured me there was no problem and asked me to wait 4 weeks to get the refund. Nothing happened. So I called back in April and they said the ticket had already been refunded to my credit card. I checked and this was not true. Called again and they told me it was an error. They were going to investigate and gave me a new "case" number. Another month and no news. Finally they changed again my "case" number and promised to solve the problem. I have already received 4 case numbers and spent 5 months calling, writing. Nothing at all except for: "we understand and will get to you as soon as possible". What can a tourist do?
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Lima to Tumbes |
Date Flown | March 2017 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"only given in Portuguese"
Rico Harnisch (Germany)
✅ Verified Review | Sao Paulo to Bogota on the first leg of this flight, at least I tried. Pilot needed to cancel the take off twice due to "technical problems" with the aircraft. Aircraft set on the tarmac for over three hours to be repaired, just to return to the gate again after having undertaken a second take off attempt. The problem was apparently not solved. Eventually the flight was cancelled completely and passengers were requested to disembark. No information from the ground staff and what is going on, and even worse, all the information that were given were only given in Portuguese language. Please note that this was an international flight from an international airport. Not acceptable. All in all this was a horrible trip with an unprofessional and incapable airline that has cost me almost a full day of my vacation. Two out of ten for LATAM organizing a decent hotel and snacks and drinks without further hassle and for the decent in-flight entertainment that helped passing the time (if it was operational, on some seats it froze and thus seized operation).
Aircraft | Boeing 767-300ER |
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Sao Paulo to Bogota |
Date Flown | July 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"my niece was denied her trip"
Robert Stainton (Canada)
✅ Verified Review | Santiago to Montevideo. LATAM's customer service agents are either very poorly trained, have been assigned no real decision-making authority, or both. The result is that the simplest, most reasonable and most straightforward request, if it happens not to appear in their manual, is denied. Yes, with a polite apology, and even with recognition of how very unfair it is to deny the request. But denied it is. My own experience involved making a typo on my Smartphone on their online reservation system. Booking a flight for my niece, I clicked on the wrong date. I couldn't fix it online even though I caught it within five minutes, so I phoned. First level of customer service: "That's too complicated for us". Escalated to second level of customer service: "I'm not authorized to change that". Escalated to third level of customer service: "What you request is very reasonable, but I will need to forward the case to my supervisor". The Supervisor then didn't get back to us until after the (incorrect) flight had taken place. I was out $300 and my niece was denied her trip. If you must use LATAM, book your flight via a travel agency, so that you don't ever have to deal with their customer service personnel.
Type Of Traveller | Business |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Santiago to Montevideo |
Date Flown | May 2017 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"choice of food and drinks"
Simon Abufarhue (Chile)
✅ Verified Review | Santiago de Chile to Concepcion. I thought the onboard service was going to be expensive, but no. The prices are the same as you can found everywhere, and you have a large choice of food and drinks, hot or cold. In some flights they can't heat it because the flight time is too short, but this flight lasted 45 minutes and they were hot. The interior of the plane is well preserved, despite its age
Aircraft | A320 |
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Santiago de Chile to Concepcion |
Date Flown | June 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Wifi & Connectivity | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | yes |
"very poor quality of food"
Harold Bush-Howard (United Kingdom)
✅ Verified Review | Lima to Santiago de Chile. Very good inflight attention by excellent cabin crew but service let down by very poor quality of food (a snack), and also by indifferent ground attention at Lima airport. For a place with such a big operation it is extraordinary they do not provide a lounge for premium passengers. I was in transit and no one told me of this change so I went to the lounge I used them last time I flew with them, only to be told to go miles away to gate 21 to get a voucher, but on arrival there was told to go back from where I started and take lift downstairs to collect it. No effort was made to make things easy for a passenger or to remedy the inconvenience they caused by not telling me anurjign, someone who paid a lot to travelling business with them. Tue girl who handed me the voucher for 20 US dollars rude and defensive when I told her no one had told me there was no lounge.
Aircraft | Boeing 787-8 |
Type Of Traveller | Business |
Seat Type | Business Class |
Route | Lima to Santiago de Chile |
Date Flown | June 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"experience clouded by dreadful food"
Harold Bush-Howard (United Kingdom)
✅ Verified Review |
Flew LATAM from Bogotá to São Paulo - Guarulhos. Incredibly friendly and efficient cabin crew but overall experience clouded by dreadful food (the beef was really hard), really awful sparkling wine and the lack of small things like a toothbrush for an overnight flight, which was close to 6 hours. Credit goes to their 3 choices for the main course and some of the best cabin crew I have come across.
Aircraft | Boeing 767-300 |
Type Of Traveller | Business |
Seat Type | Business Class |
Route | Bogotá to São Paulo - Guarulhos |
Date Flown | June 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | yes |
"Poor customer service and misinformation"
M Lewis (New Zealand)
We travelled home to NZ as a family of 4 with LATAM Airlines. My daughter is gluten and dairy intolerant and requested a meal to suit by phone prior to our departure. She had 5 attempts to get her request to be understood and finally was told there would be no meal service for our short haul flight from Sydney to Auckland, despite it being listed as part of our ticket price. The flight counter on departure said there would be a meal and special needs catered for so we didn't purchase goods at the airport. In flight - meal for everyone- surprise! But nothing for her. Hence she got to watch everyone around her eat while she only had the memory of breakfast 6 hours earlier to comfort her. Poor customer service and misinformation.
Type Of Traveller | Family Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Sydney to Auckland |
Date Flown | June 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"the flight was perfect"
40 reviews W Robert Kmen (United States)
✅ Verified Review | For a flight from Madrid to Frankfurt, I cannot imagine that service on LH or IB even comes close to what LATAM offers. This 787 aircraft arrives in Madrid from Santiago, Chile and continues on to Frankfurt. This is a true international business class product with full lie-flat seats and catalog of AVOD. The crew was outgoing and personable, the meal-snack was delicious, and the Chilean sparkling wine was delicious. My only caveat to a perfect flight was that LATAM does not fund the use of passport and security fast track on this route. That would not be a problem if they informed business class passengers of this anomaly at check-in. This would avoid the embarrassment of being turned away. Except for this, the flight was perfect. I invite readers to check out LATAM's fares on this route: you will be amazed.
Aircraft | Boeing 787-9 |
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Business Class |
Route | Madrid to Frankfurt |
Date Flown | June 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | yes |
"service is excellent"
C Jordan (Argentina)
✅ Verified Review | Flights covered Buenos Aires to New York JFK via Lima. Checking in at LATAM is very easy, no complaints. Onboard service is excellent, crew superior to many other airlines. Food ok but could be better. IFE excellent but unchanged programmes from my last flights in February. My only complaint is that after all the hype over the Dreamliner, I find the economy class seats incredibly narrow, hard, uncomfortable and impossible to sleep. The mood lighting might be great, the air quality better, cabin pressure improved, but someone's forgotten about seat comfort. The B767 and A320 seats were worn, but at least very comfortable.
Aircraft | Boeing 767 / 787 / A320 |
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Buenos Aires to New York JFK via Lima |
Date Flown | May 2017 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | yes |