LATAM Airlines (IATA LA) is a full-service carrier based in Chile, a member of the - alliance. Across the corridors catalogued here it flies 8 routes from African airports, reaching 4 destinations in 3 countries. Most of these are intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business corridors. Its standard checked-baggage baseline is 23 kg, lifted by about 15 kg on diaspora and migrant-worker corridors.
At a glance
4 catalogued corridors on this site are flown by LATAM Airlines (LA), a full-service carrier based in Chile with no alliance membership on record, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline.
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| IATA code | LA |
| Home country | Chile |
| Alliance | - |
| Carrier type | full-service |
| Checked-baggage baseline | 23 kg |
| Diaspora / migrant baggage uplift | +15 kg |
| Hajj / Umrah charter service | No |
An advertised baseline and a booked allowance are different objects. LATAM Airlines publishes the 23 kg figure for standard economy while also selling stripped fare families below it — and those cheaper buckets are exactly what a fare cache surfaces first. Confirm against your own booking class before packing to any published number.
Our notes record a possible diaspora or migrant-worker baggage uplift of about +15 kg for LATAM Airlines — an unverified figure, so confirm any extra allowance with the airline before you pack for it. Read it as a corridor-specific promotion: uplifts of this kind attach to nominated routes and fare families, are rarely honoured on a codeshare or interline segment operated by another airline, and usually exclude the deepest-discount buckets. Treat it as unconfirmed until your own booking class shows it.
Routes LATAM Airlines flies from Africa — 8 corridors
4 corridors covered on this site are flown by LATAM Airlines, reaching 2 destinations and totalling about 18 weekly departures, with block times from 8.5 h to 11.0 h. This is the African-outbound catalogue, not the airline’s global network.
| Route | Freq/wk | Block (h) | Market low (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg (JNB) → Sao Paulo (GRU) | ~7 | ~10.5 | — |
| Luanda (LAD) → Sao Paulo (GRU) | ~5 | ~8.5 | — |
| Luanda (LAD) → Rio de Janeiro (GIG) | ~3 | ~9.5 | — |
| Johannesburg (JNB) → Rio de Janeiro (GIG) | ~3 | ~11.0 | — |
| Sao Paulo (GRU) → Johannesburg (JNB) | — | — | — |
| Rio de Janeiro (GIG) → Johannesburg (JNB) | — | — | — |
| Rio de Janeiro (GIG) → Luanda (LAD) | — | — | — |
| Salvador (SSA) → Luanda (LAD) | — | — | — |
The USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our Travelpayouts cache has seen on that corridor across all carriers, not a LATAM Airlines-only price; use it as a floor when comparing.
1 of those corridors is flagged as labour-migration or diaspora routes. That flag is why the baggage column matters more than the seat map on this carrier’s page: on a diaspora corridor the second checked bag, and whether it is bought online or at the counter, routinely costs more than the fare gap between LATAM Airlines and the next airline on the route.
Passenger compensation rights
1 instrument covers LATAM Airlines across most of its catalogued network: the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps liability at 1,519 SDR per passenger for baggage and 6,303 SDR for provable delay losses (ICAO limits in force since 28 December 2024). No EU261-style fixed cash compensation scheme reaches these corridors, so a long delay carries no statutory payout.
LATAM Airlines’s catalogued African routes sit outside the EU261/UK261/GACA/APPR/DOT cash-compensation schemes; the Montreal Convention still covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international sector.
| Regime | When it applies | Remedy for a long delay / cancellation |
|---|---|---|
| Montreal Convention 1999 | Any international itinerary — baggage and delay losses. | Compensation for lost, damaged or delayed baggage (up to 1,519 SDR per passenger) and for provable losses caused by delay (up to 6,303 SDR), limits in force since 28 December 2024. |
| Regime | When it applies | Remedy for a long delay / cancellation |
|---|
What does not cover a LATAM Airlines itinerary is worth stating plainly, because claim services will open a file regardless: EU261 — no catalogued corridor here touches an EU/EEA airport, and carrier nationality alone never triggers it, UK261 — no leg touches a UK airport, US DOT rules — no United States endpoint and Canada’s APPR — no Canadian endpoint. Filing under the wrong scheme costs weeks and ends in a rejection. Match the regulation to the departure airport and the operating carrier first, then claim.
When LATAM Airlines is the right choice
4 catalogued corridors is the practical scope of this decision: LATAM Airlines is worth choosing where it flies your corridor nonstop, where its 23 kg baseline beats the alternative, and where the schedule fits. Compare the block-time column, not only the price column.
You should choose LATAM Airlines for its included 23 kg allowance and through-checked bags on connecting itineraries; diaspora and migrant-worker travellers gain from the ~15 kg extra-baggage uplift. Compare it against the other carriers on each corridor in the route table above before booking LATAM Airlines.
The honest counter-case first. A single carrier is rarely the right answer on every corridor, and on a route where LATAM Airlines connects while a competitor flies nonstop, the competitor usually wins on total elapsed time even at a higher fare. Compare the block-time column, not just the price column, on each corridor page — the difference between a nonstop and a one-stop routing on this site’s long-haul corridors is regularly eight hours or more.
FAQ
5 questions below answer what travellers ask most often about this page’s subject, drawn from the same route, carrier, airport and fare data as everything above. Where a figure is missing from our data, the answer says so rather than estimating.
What is LATAM Airlines’s checked baggage allowance? LATAM Airlines’s checked-baggage baseline is 23 kg, normally included in its standard fares.
Is LATAM Airlines part of an airline alliance? LATAM Airlines is a member of the - alliance.
What kind of airline is LATAM Airlines? LATAM Airlines (LA) is a full-service carrier from Chile.
How many routes does LATAM Airlines fly from Africa? LATAM Airlines operates 8 routes from African airports catalogued here — see the list above; each links to a route guide.
Can I claim compensation on a LATAM Airlines flight? LATAM Airlines’s African routes carry no fixed cash-compensation scheme, but the Montreal Convention covers baggage loss and provable delay losses.
How current are these numbers? Routes, carriers and airports are this site’s own reference data, revised from time to time; fares come from a weekly snapshot of Travelpayouts cached fares, with a weekly history log behind it. Each page states its own last-updated date.
Sources
1 primary source cited on this page is regulator and government material, not secondary summaries. Each is listed with what it actually governs, so a claim on this page can be checked against the instrument it comes from. Where a value is missing from our own data we leave the cell blank rather than estimate it.
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AirHelp — flight-compensation claims — a commercial claims service, cited as the industry explainer alongside the regulator rather than instead of it.
Two-source discipline applies to every passenger-rights claim on this site: the regulator’s own text for the rule, and a commercial explainer only as a secondary reading. Where the two disagree, the regulator wins. Compensation figures stay in the currency of the instrument — euro for EU261, pound for UK261, Canadian dollar for APPR, SDR for Montreal — because converting them to USD would imply a precision the instruments do not have.
Fares on this page come from a weekly snapshot of Travelpayouts cached fares and a weekly fare-history log; frequencies, block times, baggage baselines and coordinates are this site’s own reference data. Where a value is missing we leave the cell blank instead of estimating it, which is why some tables have dashes.
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