Problems booking Sky airline flights

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Hi TAs,

Today I tried many times (with 2 major US credit cards) to book cheapest one way flights on Sky airline, but it keep failing/declined.. 1) I am an US citizen, can someone give me the instruction on how to go about buying a ticket? 2) Or, is there any reliable agency in Chile I can contact to help me buy flights while I pay them a small fee?

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I contacted my bank and there is no restriction on my transaction.

Or is there a number I can call Sky Airlines directly to purchase tickets?

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you could try calling 56 600 600 2828

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I had some problems booking flights through the Sky airline website. I checked Cheapoair's site and found that LAN had flights around the same times as the Sky flights I was looking at. (and they were cheaper) It was easy to book through Cheapoair with my US credit card. (and the site's in English) Maybe you could check it for similar flights to yours? Good luck!

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IMO, a site being in English does not overcome the possible problems from booking on a third-party site. You can access the same LAN fares (perhaps even cheaper than the third-party site) on the Chilean version of the LAN site.

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Just to share my experience: I had the same issue using a foreign credit card booking flights on Sky's website, which kept failing. I eventually made a successful payment via Paypal but I received no confirmation whatsoever which worried me. I subsequently just called their number listed on Sky's website and there was a nice gentlemen who confirmed that payment went through and sent me the flight record via email - the whole process took less than 10 min. Suggest you try this, the prices on Cheapoair seems to be higher than Sky's website for my flights. Hope this helps.

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Thank you all for your kind responses!

@spidergirlBoston: As mentioned by other people in this thread, Cheapoair's price is actually higher than the Chilean version of LAN.. I did successfully booked my flight to Punta Arenas and Easter Island on Chilean LAN website, but I had trouble with Sky Airlines (now it is solved by the way).

@Toid: I successfully booked Sky Airlines from trying on a daily basis, for some reasons, yesterday's bookings worked like a charm, but like many others I didn't get any confirmation at all, so I will use your provided number to call Sky Tomorrow to confirm.

@eeuunikkeiexpat: Thank you for your info, I did know about Chilean LAN, but I wanted some flights on Sky to save money :p

@jjjason1: I successfully booked flights on sky airlines after a few more days of trying, but same as you, I didn't get any confirmation. So I will give them a call Tomorrow. Thanks!

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Hi,

I had the same problem from the UK - so I called their customer service number and booked over the phone. I was calling from the UK and didn't want to pay loads for the call do I loaded some credit onto my Skype account and called them through Skype.

I will say though that there is a $14 USD charge for over the phone booking, but for me this still came up cheaper than booking through another airline.

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