Find Your Dream Flight

The CLP price you see on a route like Santiago–Lima or Santiago–Buenos Aires is the live one, fetched the moment you search — never a stored snapshot. TICKETS.CL reaches across many airlines and online travel agencies, picks up the fare each is quoting right now and presents them together so you can book the one you choose right away. The coverage spans full-service airlines, low-cost carriers and online agencies — often the cheapest seat is with a provider you hadn't even thought of, and that's the whole point of comparing, which on TICKETS.CL is free. We don't sell the ticket: you pick one and we hand you off to that airline or agency to book at the same price (the provider pays us a commission only if the booking goes through). One honest distinction: the prices shown in the by-month calendar are indicative estimates meant to nudge you toward cheap dates; the fares on the results page are the real ones you actually buy.

Shop the fare first and let it point you to the destination — that's what the map (/map) is for. On TICKETS.CL you open it and, instead of naming a city, see where you can fly out of Santiago with the prices laid out visually in CLP, so the trip matches your budget. Narrow it by how far you want to go, your dates and how much you want to spend, and a vague "somewhere cheap and soon" becomes a real shortlist — sometimes a regional hop to Mendoza or Lima turns out closer at hand than the dream destination. It's made for flexible-date travellers: while your destination is open, this is where the unexpectedly cheap options jump out. Find one you like and open it to see exact dates and the full price.

It frequently is, and putting the pieces together isn't your job — it's ours. Take a long haul like Santiago–Madrid or Santiago–Punta Cana: when the cheapest outbound belongs to one airline and the cheapest return to another, two one-way legs stacked together can undercut any published round-trip fare. Every time you run a round-trip search, TICKETS.CL pairs the cheapest outbound with the cheapest return from different airlines into a 'mash-up' and flags it — CLP saving included — only once it beats the best normal round trip. The key detail to remember: a mash-up is two separate tickets, so each leg is confirmed on its own and you re-check your bags at the changeover. For a normal there-and-back it's generally no problem, and the lower total is yours.

The fastest way is to drop the date-by-date calendar and compare month against month in the by-month price view. On TICKETS.CL we lay an indicative cheapest fare per month across several months — it's the lowest value per MONTH, not a day-by-day grid — so the cheap months jump out immediately on a cheap-flights-from-Santiago route. Fares move with the day of the week and the season: flying midweek and outside the January–February peak, Fiestas Patrias and Semana Santa almost always beats weekends and the high holiday season. Looking at whole months is what catches those dips. You pick a date and it carries into the search, where you see the real, bookable fare. If your dates have even a little give, this usually saves more than anything else.

Sometimes — though out of Chile almost everything international goes through Santiago airport (SCL), the country's main gateway in and out, so the trick here is really to compare origins directly. The secondary-airport angle applies more abroad, where low-cost carriers cluster at smaller terminals with fares below the main hub on the same route. On TICKETS.CL you start from your nearest airport, but you can set a different departure airport — Concepción or La Serena, for example — and run the route again, or use the destination map to see prices from your area at a glance. There's no automatic radius search that bundles nearby airports into a single query. The trap is counting only the fare: a cheaper ticket from an out-of-the-way airport only pays off after you add parking, transport and the time to get there. Work out the full door-to-door cost in CLP; if the secondary airport still comes out ahead, take it.

The rule starts simple: the bigger the saving and the more breathing room in the connection, the more sense it makes; but if the layover is tight, it isn't worth the gamble. A self-transfer ties together separate tickets on airlines that have no agreement with each other, so on a long connection — like a Santiago–Europe via Brazil or Argentina — it can come out cheaper than a single through fare; but if a delayed first leg makes you miss the second, that airline isn't obliged to rebook you and treats you as a no-show, and you re-check your own bags between legs. On TICKETS.CL we flag these itineraries and warn you when a connection is a self-transfer — the route map even shows when you change airport — so you see the risk before you buy. If you take one, leave a generous connection and consider missed-connection insurance. Work out the downside, not just the fare that looks big.

Deciding whether to lock it in today or hold off a while is precisely what the buy-now-or-wait suggestion handles. Take a route like Santiago–Lima or Santiago–Punta Arenas: the TICKETS.CL AI works through around twelve months of price history, then gives one of three answers — buy now, wait or neutral — each with a confidence score, a plain-language reason, and whether the trend is rising, falling or flat. That resolves the question you're really asking: is this a good price right now in pesos, or is it likely to drop? Treat it as data-backed guidance, not a guarantee — prices can still surprise you. As a rule that runs along the same lines: inside the usual booking window and with the price at or below the route's normal level, buy; early in the cycle and with fares high for the season, waiting can pay off. When it says neutral, set an alert and let a real move decide.

Heads up: alerts live inside the TICKETS app and reach you as a push notification — you won't find them on the website. You set an alert on a route you're following — say a Santiago–Punta Arenas or a Santiago–Buenos Aires — and the app tells you when the fare moves, so you're not running the same search by hand. Since the price of the same flight changes many times before departure, the alert turns timing into a simple rule: it pings you when it actually drops instead of you guessing. It's free, you can follow several routes at once, and it gets along well with flexible dates or booking ahead, where the swings in CLP are bigger. The honest limit: very fleeting fares can appear and vanish before any alert fires, so those still come down to luck. Download the TICKETS app, set the routes that matter to you and let it watch for you.

Reading a connecting itinerary in plain text hides what matters; the TICKETS.CL route map fixes that by drawing the whole journey — both legs, every stop and the airports you pass through — so a single look shows whether a "1 stop" on a Santiago–Europe trip is a quick transfer in one terminal or a long detour the wrong way. It also flags when a connection is a self-transfer or when you'd switch to another airport in the same city — easy to miss in text and enough to wreck a tight connection. The route map turns a row of times and codes into a picture of what your travel day really looks like, the fastest way to compare two connecting options that look identical on paper.

A nonstop Santiago–Lima is almost never worth swapping for a connection, but on a long haul to Europe it's a different story: there the TICKETS.CL stops filter lets you see the saving and what it costs in hours. A direct flight saves time and removes the risk of a missed connection; one with a stop can come out a good bit cheaper in CLP, but it adds hours of travel and eats into your day. Check the layover length and whether you change airport or terminal — the TICKETS.CL route map shows the path, so a quick transfer in the same terminal is easy to tell apart from a change across the city. And mind the ticket type: on a single-airline ticket you're re-protected if a leg runs late, but a self-transfer on separate tickets has no such safety net. On TICKETS.CL the direct and connecting options sit side by side with their pros and cons, so you can judge whether the saving is worth the extra hours.