Dogon, great information. Now I know why my outfitter gave me the heads up.
Dogon, My flight starts in Omaha on American Airlines bound for Dallas. In Dallas I deplane and get on another American Flight that is code shared (AA acting like LAN) with LAN to Santiago Chile where I finally get on a real LAN fight to Cordoba.
Dogon let me ask you this. Did you think about checking your bags to Dallas and then re-checking them in (security check and all ) with LAN (Dallas) to see if your bags would be checked to Cordoba by LAN themselves and eliminate the whole American / LAN handoff in SA?
I'm assuming my 4.75 hrs layover in SA would be sufficient to get my guns onto the LAN plane. Dogon has it taken you longer than that to get the gun situation sorted out in SA?
I have the RENAR and US Customs 4457. I will get the tax form tonight.
I will make a trip to the airport in the next few days and speak to the counter person at American. I will relay my idea about the get the bags off in Dallas and re-checking them with LAN to see if that would work.
Stan, I would have never flown AA had I known this crazy policy of theirs.
