To ARG via Sao Paulo Airport. Is a Visa Required When Using 2 Seperately Booked Tickets.
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To ARG via Sao Paulo Airport. Is a Visa Required When Using 2 Seperately Booked Tickets.
It's quite clear when you book a flight all in one go, such as with Aerolineas to BA, one transaction & one payment, including a layover in Sao Paulo, that you do not need a Brazilian visa as you're in the airport and will not be staying in Brazil. I get this.
But what's the case if say you find a good deal on a direct ticket to Sao Paulo, on one airline, let's say, one way and then later you book a separate ticket from SP to BA.
Would these be ok for not needing a visa? You'd still be having the same type of layover.
It makes sense that they would see your continuing destination ticket onto ARG.
I just wondered if there'd be any stink as you didn't buy the ticket to your final destination all in one sitting, like they're somehow separate from each other from a technicality standpoint.
Hope the question makes sense.
As a second question instead of making a new thread, is it correct to assume, when hunting flight deals, that Sao Paulo might offer more of the better deals, being a larger hub?
Or is EZE just as equal. Or are there nearby airports that spring up deals as well?
Thanks.
Aerolienas Argentinas and AEP
A combination of a not-so-relaible airline and an airport which lacks capacity is not a very recommendable one.
Because I travel a lot myself and also receive many visitors from outside Argentina, I often check the flight status of both airports.
As Stan says, AR's international flights in and out of AEP are VERY often delayed and / or cancelled.
Even if with a bit of luck you reach AEP, the arrival lobby prior to immigrations is so small that it can only accomodate passengers of any one aircraft.
If two or three international flights land within 15 or 20 minutes, the lobby gets flooded with people and you see about a hundred or two passengers having to wait outside the buliding.
These are more than enough to make me avoid AEP and come in via EZE.
Except for peak hours, the journey from EZE to centro is only about half an hour, which means a difference of only about 15 minutes compared to the ride from AEP.
This is nothing if you think of the possible delay of two hours or more when you fly into AEP which is a sub-standard airport in my opinion.