LATAM (Peru)

[zio]

Anyone have experience of how “enthusiastic” they are about their baggage policy? Specifically are they really weighing cabin baggage to enforce the 10kg max in economy rather than the 16kg limit in premium? Camera + lenses + laptop soon adds up.

I am finding booking on the Peruvian site is saving 30-50% compared with booking on their UK site. Easily covers any credit card FX loading (Curve metal isn’t accepted, at least with avios Barclaycard behind. I’ll try with Virgin+ behind next…).

Thanks in advance for any insight/reassurance about whether I need to book premium.

[meta]

My recent experience is they are not weighing anything. I also used Curve on Peruvian site and it was accepted.

I’d book Premium simply because it saves the hassle of waiting in huge lines at Lima Airport. For domestic flights people need to arrive three hours before and you pretty much wait in the line the whole time I’m told. There is a separate premium check-in area with 0 waiting time. Also it will be easier to deal with if anything goes wrong (likely).

At Cusco Airport, you also get preferential treatment. We were brought to the front of a very long queue to enter the airport when we told we are Premium. They were scanning bags before check-in. They also did our tags at the entrance.

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[zio]

Thanks, advice taken.
I still haven’t been able to get curve to work though. I tried with fronted and with Virgin+ underlying so I’ve just sucked up the FX loading, comforting myself with the saving from booking in Spanish.
What underlying card did you use?

[meta]

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