LATAM Airlines Group has been busy over the past two years, opening four new passenger lounges covering a total of nearly 20,000 square metres of floor space. The latest is in Santiago, Chile, joining the still very new sister lounges in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Bogota, Columbia. At 7000 square metres, the Santiago offering is not only the largest of the four, but the largest in South America, catering for 460 people over two floors.
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It's as beautiful as it is big. With design by award-winning and influential Chilean architects Mathias Klotz and Lillian Allen, the space features a 230-metre copper wall and natural materials, such as marble, onyx and leather, as well as colours and details that represent South America. A stand-out is the bespoke carpeting, in traditional fiesta colours through a contemporary modernist pattern by high-end British manufacturer Brintons. Striking furniture pieces from cult French designer Andree Putman punctuate the space.
A 55-metre buffet bar has beverages including the best wines from the region, Louis Roederer Brut Premier Champagne and Juan Valdez coffee. And there are further amenities galore in a series of individual spaces, including a sleeping room, entertainment and video game zone and the requisite business centre. There are 10 showers, a shoeshine service and unlimited free Wi-Fi in the lounge, which is open 22 hours a day, welcoming qualifying Oneworld alliance members in addition to LAN and TAM's direct customers.
