Slowly but surely Mendoza airport is beginning to offer more direct connections to places other than Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile. After years of shocked tourists discovering their flight from Mendoza to Salta was routed through Buenos Aires, Aerolineas Argentinas have finally began ferrying happy campers north directly to Salta and then Iguazu and also south to Bariloche.
Every plane is packed which gives us reason to hope the flights will become a little more frequent than just twice a week. More good news is Taca Airlines is opening a new route from Mendoza to Lima which will operate three times a week. This means the warm beaches of Northern Peru are just that little bit closer. Now all we need is a tourist information kiosk in the airport and perhaps a place that sells water and we are all set.
