Route · AQP → LIM
Flights from Arequipa to Lima
Spanning roughly 766 km between Peru's second city and its capital, this short Andean hop covers the distance in around an hour and twenty minutes block time, making it one of the busiest domestic corridors in South America. LATAM Airlines dominates the route with frequent daily departures, typically operating narrow-body Airbus A320-family equipment, while American and Iberia serve it primarily as connecting itineraries routing international passengers through Lima's Jorge Chávez International Airport rather than as standalone point-to-point services. A practical note worth flagging: Jorge Chávez operates as a single-terminal facility, but domestic arrivals and international connections occupy different areas, so travelers onward to Europe or North America should allow at minimum ninety minutes for the transition. Fare prices on this corridor tend to soften during Peru's shoulder season of May through early June and again in September, while last-minute midweek flights frequently offer the most availability for flexible travelers.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Arequipa (AQP) → Lima (LIM). Use the year view… to spot the cheapest week to fly, the day-of-week patterns most travellers miss, and any shoulder-season dips worth shifting your trip around. Prices refresh every few hours, so what you see is what your booking page should look like a moment later — click any date to jump straight to the fare on Aviasales.
Airlines on this route
4 carriersThe 4 carriers we currently track on the Arequipa–Lima route, from full-service flag carriers to low-cost competitors. Tap any airline for its full profile, baggage… rules, fleet context, and a live fare search pre-filtered to that carrier — useful if you're loyal to a frequent-flyer programme, want to compare onboard product on the same dates, or are weighing a cheaper one-stop against a pricier nonstop.
Flights from Arequipa to Lima
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Arequipa to Lima — the actual flight numbers, departure and arrival times your… booking page will pull from. Use it to plan around departure preferences (early morning vs late evening), see which carriers fly on which weekdays, or pick a connection that lets you sleep in your own bed before a long-haul leg. Click any row to load it directly in the search.
Airport guides
Quick links into the airport profiles at both ends of the route. Each guide covers terminal layout, the airlines that base hubs at AQP and… LIM, the other routes those airports serve, and the ground-transit options most travellers wish they'd read about before landing — the practical context you only really need to know once you've booked, but want to skim before you do.