The South American airlines have even worse service than the US discounters. I was on both LAN Chile and Star Peru earlier this year in Peru... Mysterious delays abound with virtually no information...
That's kind of depressing. From what I've heard TACA and Varig are a little better, but I haven't flown commercial to South America yet. Maybe Start Up Chile should convince SQ to fly SF-Santiago as a 5th freedom flight.
