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Cheap Flights from Los Angeles to South America

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Lima
Lima1 stop$735
Bogotá
Bogotá1 stop$440
Medellín
Medellín1 stop$495
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires2 stops$699
Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo1 stop$596
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro1 stop$671
Santiago
Santiagononstop$676
Cartagena
Cartagena1 stop$465
Quito
Quito1 stop$485
Guayaquil
Guayaquil1 stop$544
Cali
Cali2 stops$470
Cusco
Cusco3 stops$809
Georgetown
Georgetown1 stop$538
Pereira
Pereira2 stops$485
Barranquilla
Barranquilla2 stops$479
Montevideo
Montevideo1 stop$793
Santa Marta
Santa Marta1 stop$544
Asuncion
Asuncion2 stops$765
Lima
Lima1 stop$735
Bogotá
Bogotá1 stop$440
Medellín
Medellín1 stop$495
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires2 stops$699
Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo1 stop$596
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro1 stop$671
Santiago
Santiagononstop$676
Cartagena
Cartagena1 stop$465
Quito
Quito1 stop$485
Guayaquil
Guayaquil1 stop$544
Cali
Cali2 stops$470
Cusco
Cusco3 stops$809
Georgetown
Georgetown1 stop$538
Pereira
Pereira2 stops$485
Barranquilla
Barranquilla2 stops$479
Montevideo
Montevideo1 stop$793
Santa Marta
Santa Marta1 stop$544
Asuncion
Asuncion2 stops$765

Book Cheap Los Angeles to South America Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Los Angeles to South America that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent round-trip flight deals from Los Angeles to South America

Thu, Jul 23 - Tue, Oct 13
United Airlines Logo
7:21 pm - 4:54 am
LAX
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BOG
31h 33m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
12:14 am - 4:30 pm
BOG
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LAX
18h 16m
1 stop
$440United Airlines
Wed, Oct 7 - Fri, Oct 9
United Airlines Logo
3:20 pm - 4:54 am
LAX
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BOG
11h 34m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
12:14 am - 4:30 pm
BOG
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LAX
18h 16m
1 stop
$441United Airlines
Tue, Sep 1 - Wed, Sep 16
American Airlines Logo
8:00 am - 9:17 pm
LAX
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BOG
11h 17m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
12:25 am - 6:59 pm
BOG
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LAX
20h 34m
1 stop
$453American Airlines
Sun, Oct 18 - Sat, Oct 24
Avianca Logo
1:50 pm - 2:55 am
LAX
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UIO
11h 05m
1 stop
Avianca Logo
4:45 am - 10:40 pm
UIO
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LAX
19h 55m
2 stops
$485Avianca
Wed, Jul 15 - Thu, Aug 20
Avianca Logo
7:25 am - 1:05 pm
LAX
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UIO
27h 40m
3 stops
Avianca Logo
4:45 am - 10:40 pm
UIO
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LAX
19h 55m
2 stops
$486Avianca
Sun, Aug 23 - Thu, Aug 27
Copa Airlines Logo
10:04 pm - 9:40 am
LAX
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MDE
9h 36m
1 stop
Copa Airlines Logo
8:35 am - 11:15 pm
MDE
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LAX
16h 40m
1 stop
$495Copa Airlines
Sun, Oct 4 - Mon, Oct 26
Copa Airlines Logo
2:19 am - 8:50 pm
LAX
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GRU
14h 31m
1 stop
Copa Airlines Logo
5:25 am - 11:02 pm
GRU
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LAX
21h 37m
1 stop
$599Copa Airlines
Wed, Aug 19 - Mon, Sep 14
LATAM Airlines Logo
1:55 pm - 5:30 am
LAX
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GRU
11h 35mnonstop
LATAM Airlines Logo
11:45 pm - 9:28 pm
GRU
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LAX
25h 43m
2 stops
$606LATAM Airlines
Sat, Aug 15 - Sat, Aug 22
LATAM Airlines Logo
11:05 am - 10:15 am
LAX
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GIG
43h 10m
2 stops
LATAM Airlines Logo
7:25 pm - 7:45 am
GIG
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LAX
40h 20m
1 stop
$672LATAM Airlines
Tue, Sep 1 - Tue, Sep 15
American Airlines Logo
6:25 am - 8:20 am
LAX
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GIG
21h 55m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
10:10 pm - 4:07 pm
GIG
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LAX
21h 57m
1 stop
$690American Airlines
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Los Angeles to South America flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Los Angeles to South America to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest Los Angeles to South America flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest ticket to South America from Los Angeles found in the last 5 days was to Sao Paulo, at $586 round-trip. The most popular route is from Los Angeles (LAX) to Lima (LIM), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 5 days was $656.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to South America?

The average price for all round-trip flights from Los Angeles to South America depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

The cheapest time of day to fly to South America is generally in the morning, when round-trip flights cost $913 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to South America is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $974.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Los Angeles to South America?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

No, with an average price for the route of $836, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to South America?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Los Angeles to South America, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Los Angeles to South America is October, when tickets cost $625 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,020 and $868 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Los Angeles to South America?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Los Angeles to South America clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Los Angeles to South America, you should consider leaving on a Monday and avoid Saturdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Los Angeles, you’ll find the best rates on Wednesdays and the most expensive ones on Fridays.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Los Angeles to South America?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Los Angeles to South America, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Los Angeles to South America, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 10% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 5 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonApril
Cheapest flight$202
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 4% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 34% increase in price.
Flight from Los Angeles to Bogotá

FAQs - booking South America flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Los Angeles to South America?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Los Angeles to South America.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Los Angeles to South America?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Los Angeles to South America is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Los Angeles to South America?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly from Los Angeles to South America with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Los Angeles to South America?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying from Los Angeles to South America up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Los Angeles to South America

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Los Angeles to South America? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
7.6
Copa AirlinesOverall score based on 1567 reviews
6.8Entertainment
8.1Crew
7.4Comfort
6.9Food
7.8Boarding
Airline reviews

There should be a warning regarding the quality of the aircraft on the website as we reserve the tickets. There was no TV or any type of screen onboard. The wifi they offer is good for nothing. Traveling 9 hours straight with kids and no type of entetainment was horrible. I wish I had been informed prior so I could buy a ticket with another airline. The food was a joke too. A very tiny portion per passenger. They also charged $100 per checked bag. With United I used to pay $60. So, fair to say that I wont be flying Copa anymore. Their aircraft was super old, outdated, no entertainment, with nearly no onboard food.

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, Dec 2025
LAS - PTY
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There should be a warning regarding the quality of the aircraft on the website as we reserve the tickets. There was no TV or any type of screen onboard. The wifi they offer is good for nothing. Traveling 9 hours straight with kids and no type of entetainment was horrible. I wish I had been informed prior so I could buy a ticket with another airline. The food was a joke too. A very tiny portion per passenger. They also charged $100 per checked bag. With United I used to pay $60. So, fair to say that I wont be flying Copa anymore. Their aircraft was super old, outdated, no entertainment, with nearly no onboard food.

It would have been better if they don't separate families in seating. We were seated in the aile row in the middle of a family of four. It would have been better if they they seat the family of four together than separated.

It was good, plane is a bit older so seats are somewhat flat

Very good flight and crew Food was a surprise on a short flight

Biggest issue was that they only had two restrooms in the back of the aircraft. Too many people for only two restrooms. The trash was overflowing and there was paper on the floor too. Long lines in the isle to use it. Food was also a bit meh. They don’t offer snacks with drinks, so you might want to buy a snack to hold you off on a longer trip, since the meals are very small.

Everything was smooth and crew was very polite and friendly.

I like that they served a mail, I’m not sure about the in-flight entertainment. I didn’t really check. staff helped me with my luggage. Smooth boarding smooth takeoff smooth flight

The seats had plenty of leg room and the staff were very nice.

Copa performed as expected for the amount of money I was willing to spend for the flight; it wasn’t exceptional but it was not bad in any way either. The crew was good; friendly and straightforward. The food was airplane food, so no expectations there and the entertainment was lacking but that was my fault for owning an IPhone with a charging port that’s not compatible with the rest of the world. I’d fly Copa again.

Left my bags in origin city on a business class ticket , spent about 2-3 days in the same clothes plus the flight .

Honestly first time flying with delta and it was pretty good. All the process very smooth and crew was always nice and attentive.

Deleted flight made me loose my connection flight now stuck in Atlanta for a day

Apart of Sky miles delta. And they go everywhere in Brazil

We traveled with two young children, and it was not possible for our family to be seated together. No one offered help or assistance to organize seating so we could sit with our kids. In the end, we managed to find two seats in Economy so I could at least sit with one of them, even though I had originally paid for Comfort+. In summary, I had to downgrade my seat just to be able to sit with one of my children, which was very disappointing

I booked a flight through Kayak to Brazil I have traveled to Brazil several times before Kayak Delta or LATAM never mentioned during the booking or in the pre flight process that the visa requirements to visit Brazil have changed earlier this year. I was unaware of this change and as such never got a visa and was unable to fly from JFK to Sao Paulo Add to this that Delta allowed me to fly from Boston to JFK which they should not have as I didn’t have a visa. It has been a terrible experience and a huge loss of money

Latam may be the worst airline in the world, far worse than even the lowest of low cost airlines in the USA. I wasted hours trying to PAY THEM TO CHECK A BAG! Then they misled me at the terminal, sent me through the wrong security line, the list goes on and on... Just absolutely terrible in every way. Avoid at all costs.

Routine and on time flight with pleasant stewards and decent food. Nice experience!

You delayed my trip three days for no reason other than your lack of preparedness, did not offer any compensation, including food or a bed. I couldn’t trust you so I moved up my return flight and lost another day at the end of my trip to hopefully make sure I make my next flight. I will never fly LATAM again. You have the worse accountability and reliability and clearly do not care that your clients have lives and what it cost to fly to another country.

Horrific checkin procedure with neither Delta nor Latam figuring out how to check me in. 4 hrs on customer support with both and both airlines pointing to each other who should do checking. I was not checked in until morning of flight, which for international flight is concerning.

It was a good experience, the flight was a little too long & the food was ok

Great staff. Clean plane, but we were delayed for more than an hour due to maintenance issues and had to board another plane.

I was very disappointed with my experience at the United Airlines baggage check. The representative was rude and unhelpful. I was required to remove approximately 1.5 pounds from my two checked bags, even though it was a very small amount over the limit. The interaction was unnecessarily unpleasant, and I expected much better customer service. I hope United will review this incident and provide additional customer service training to its staff.

The boarding process on the departure from LA was rather slow even though I was in Group 1. For first class, I was not expecting to have to pay for Wi-fi but I did and then the wi-fi was spotty. The entree was surprisingly good and so that was a pleasant surprise. However, once I got to Houston, it was terrible. Unfortunately there was bad weather but the constant gate changes for my connecting flight was difficult to manage due to having to navigate back and forth between different terminals.

I was promised by United Airline (operated by ANA) that I will be seated together with my kids as I am the only adult flying with two minors. We did not get seats together in our 11 hours flight from LA to Tokyo. When asked at the gate, ANA representative said United Airline should have informed them that there is a parent flying with two minors. He said they can’t do anything in the system as the flight is full. He ask me to ask passengers next to me and the kids if they are willing to change seats. This is ridiculous! However, I went in the flight and asked other passages but no one willing to change seats. 11 hours and we were seating separately. I was very disappointed with this. It made things super inconvenient for me.

Flight was delayed but more than 90 minutes. This caused me to miss my available windows for pick-up by a friend. I had to pay $125 for an uber back home from the airport which was an added expense that I had not budgeted for my trip. Staff was friendly.

Food was surprisingly delicious. Space in the seat is horrible when the seating front is reclined. Movie offerings were terrible. Crew was friendly and helpful.

The business class seat is exceptional. I wish the food is more palatable.

My flight was canceled a few hours before boarding. I was rebooked on Copa airlines and missed an important meeting .

Business class seats felt very cramped compared to other airlines.

OK, we were delayed and had to de plane and reboard.

Crew was great! Food sub-bar, tepid & flavorless. No snack options on trans-atlantic flight. Premium Economy seats ok, leg rest wouldn’t stay in place.

Entertainment system did not function. USB ports did not function. Wi-Fi did not function. Terrible trifecta…

Luggage did not make it onto my plane. Business seats were economy with empty row seat. Just horrible experience. Why would the company allow for transfers that don’t give employees enough time to transfer luggages??

The gate experience at LAX was abysmal (same for the arrival experience two days prior). Despite the LAX -> SAT schedule of two flights daily, our departure gate was at a smaller hub that we had to be bussed to from Terminal 4. Fortunately, I arrived at LAX extra early and had time to spare, but if I had not known, I might have missed my flight. I looked at the LAX airport map in the AA app and there was no indication of the additional boarding process. Lastly the gate area we were bussed to was crowded with limited food and beverage options. On flight, the fight attendant was hospitable and attentive, the flight was smooth, and AA's free (and working) wifi for AA members were all on the positive side.

Our flight from JFK to Madrid was delayed. We had to go from one side of the Madrid airport (Terminal 4s to the far end of terminal 4 - Gate K98) to our gate in less than 30 minutes. Put passport control and security/baggage check and that’s very hard unless you’re Usain Bolt. I called Iberia Airlines and the telephone customer service told me that I was going to have to pay to re-book. Luckily the help desk in the airport (who was dealing with dozens of people from the same JFK-Madrid flight) did not charge us extra to reschedule to a flight 8 hours later. They also gave us a voucher for breakfast and lunch. Glad the actual person at the airport had some actual sense.

For an long range economy flight I feel more space and more meal options need to be offered for flights over 5 hours

The flight from LA to Chicago was smooth and service was very good overall.

It's a long flight and that is always difficult. I was comfortable and well. The movies available were great and the crew was good.

The crew was very attentive through out the flight. Seats were comfortable, nice flight bag with pillow and blanket. Food was okay, since it was a overnight flight seemed to go by fast.

Left early arrived early..right amount of talking from pilots..of course had to love the biscuit and water!

Staff are the rudest in the industry … awful customer service … will never fly Avianca again

Here we have another airline flying to Guatemala but doesn't have a plus or a less, just in the middle. Why? Well, first we don't have even free water Movie selection is poor Seats don't recline in some places Food selection is carb based Forgot to mention, customer service on the web is the worst. Good things; Very reliable on schedule Kind crew

I had to go to the boarding counter for them to enter my return flight as it’s not with Avianca. There was a long queue as there were lots of people being called to the counter.

Boarding, crew were excellent, food was ok and entertainment need to improve

No water for a 5 hour flight entertainment not working seats with little room for knees when person in front of me reclined kept bumping my knees.

Awful. I checked in online and there was no option to pay for baggage, at the airport when I checked in my baggage was received and Iwas not charged. When I got to LA during the boarding process I was told I didn't pay for baggage, the crew resolved I was let in the plane. When I got to my final destination my baggage was not there. It took me two days to receive my baggage. Bad service ever!

There was no food or drink service, couldn’t even get a glass of water for free. It was a long and expensive flight to not offer food or beverage on the plane.

My experience was amazing! They helped my elderly mother board on early through a wheelchair and were accommodating to have us sit together since our seats were in different locations. When landing at the airport in GUA they were very helpful with full of hospitality.

They charge me $190.00 dollars for the baggage for the bag in side the plane and in the baggage compartment in the plane. The service I got bad bad bad they make wait for a log time and i got to the airport 4 hours before. I don't think I'm going to use you guys never never again no support . And I am going to tell all the guys and people i now to don' use KAYAK

Avianca is the worst most uncomfortable airline I've ever been in, the seats are incredibly small and offer no support, the worst experience I've had traveling ever, do not bother with Avianca

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