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Chile targets longer stays and more British Airways airlift in 2024

Destinations
Harry Kemble
9 November 2023

Chile is appealing to British Airways to increase its flight frequency into Santiago as the country targets a return to pre-pandemic visitor numbers.

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Villafranca hopes to persuade British Airways to extend its Heathrow-Santiago service (Credit: Sernatur)

The Chilean Tourism Board’s national director, Cristobal Benitez Villafranca, said this goal could be achieved in three steps – increased connectivity, improved trade relations and raising awareness of the destination. 


Villafranca told TTG@WTM he would meet with British Airways at WTM London in the hope of persuading the carrier to increase its current four-times-weekly Santiago service to a daily service. “This is an important part of the recovery,” he said. “We’re trying to increase connectivity to seven flights a week.”