www.CostaRicaTicas.com

... and having a cute Latina flight attendant serve you with a smile and a sweet "con mucho gusto" is the icing on the cake.

Have you noticed more (gay) dudes lately as flight attendants. Whaz goin on wit dat?

Effective mid-May, Taca re-organized its schedules and dropped a lot of flights.

They dropped the non-stop from JFK due to "lack of interest". Maybe if you didn't charge $780, there would be more interest. Their main draw was that the majority of their passengers were Latinos. I think Latinos "trusted" them more than the US carriers. And also Taca was usually one of the cheapest. I guess maybe they figured the Latinos would stay loyal, even with the ridiculous fares. I guess they thought wrong.

I just priced NY to SJO for August (middle of off-season)... $718. JetBlue for $428.

Beginning of the end for Taca?

JetBlue's bargain basement fares are mighty tempting, but I hate going through Fort Lauderdale. I'm pricing MDE to NYC fares. While everyone is $700 or $800, JetBlue is low-balling it with $552.

I've never flown with them... how are they anyway? I'm kind of partial to the Latin American legacy carries like Avianca, COPA and TACA.

Flew them a couple of times domestically a few years ago. Unless things have changed, economy is very comfortable. Each seat has 35 channels of Direct TV (however I believe it only works within US airspace. Do they have on-demand movies when flying internationally?)

Love JetBlue
Flew them to BOG from MCO
Very comfortable

Anybody know If SAHSA is still around?
When I was a K*D we lived in Tegucigalpa and my dad was a friend of the some of the pilots and was invited to the cockpit and fly the plane
We are talking C-46 era, mind you
Anybody know what I am talking about?

I joined lifemiles.com, which is the combined frequent flier program from Taca, Avianca and other Latin American airlines. You can use the miles on Copa (Panama) and United (US).

They normally charge $30 to buy 1,000 miles, but in my experience will make two offers during the year to do so at half price. Here is how it breaks down for one-way tickets based on the $15 per 1,000 mile rate.

San Jose and Medellin: 9,500 miles ($142) Taca or Avianca
Medellin and Cartagena: 3,5000 miles ($52) Avianca
San Jose and Baltimore: 15,000 miles ($225) United

Sometimes more miles are required, but I have been flexible so far and able to get the cheap rates. I like one-way tickets because it allows me to be mobile. If you try to buy one-way tickets or anything directly between Latin American countries without a return to the U.S. the prices are always very high.

Zeos
Never heard of SANSA
SAHSA was Servicios Aereos Hondureños, SA
I guess they are defunct.

I'm flying business class on LACSA from SJO to Toronto for first time, so will be interested to see level of service.