The sector is held by Avianca and Gol.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BOG Bogota to ORD Chicago
El Dorado International, Colombia, to O'Hare International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 4,364 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 45m
- Door to door
- 12h 30m
What BOG to ORD looks like
The BOG to ORD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bogota BOG to Chicago ORD is a long haul sector of 4,364 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,364 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 45m.
Bogota BOG is a large airport in the network held here, 102 scheduled destinations and 538.2 departures a day. Chicago ORD has 295 destinations and 1,461 departures a day.
Chicago carries about 2.7 times the departures of Bogota, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Chicago runs one hour behind of Bogota in January and no time shift at all in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BOG to ORD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOG to ORD | 1.14 | 8 | Avianca, Gol |
| ORD to BOG | 1.14 | 8 | Avianca |
Two carriers hold the sector, Avianca and Gol, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on BOG to ORD, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 5h 45m block time on BOG to ORD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BOG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BOG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BOG to ORD in the air, estimated | 345 min | 10h 15m |
| Formalities at ORD | 90 min | 11h 45m |
| Delivery run in Chicago | 45 min | 12h 30m |
| Door to door | 750 min | 12h 30m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for BOG to ORD is 12h 30m.
A courier who leaves Bogota at 09:00 local is on the ground in Chicago at about 13:45 local and at the door by 16:00 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Chicago, the last useful departure from Bogota is around 11:00 local.
At 12h 30m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 29 of them join BOG to ORD.
| Connecting at | BOG to hub, flights a day | Hub to ORD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montego Bay MBJ | 0.57 | 1.57 | 4,364 | 7h 35m |
| Panama City PTY | 16.29 | 2 | 4,508 | 7h 38m |
| Orlando MCO | 5.86 | 16.57 | 4,365 | 7h 49m |
| Atlanta ATL | 2.29 | 22.57 | 4,365 | 7h 50m |
| Fort Lauderdale FLL | 2.29 | 9 | 4,366 | 7h 50m |
| Tampa TPA | 1.14 | 7.57 | 4,367 | 7h 50m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BOG in the afternoon actually flies on.
29 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Montego Bay MBJ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through MBJ the routing covers 4,364 km against the 4,364 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 35m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 50m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Panama City PTY at 7h 38m and Orlando MCO at 7h 49m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Bogota, Medellin MDE is 215 km away by great circle and carries 39 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Chicago, Chicago MDW is 25 km away by great circle and carries 208 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bogota to Chicago yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for BOG to ORD in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The BOG airport entry
- The ORD airport entry
- Hand carry into Colombia
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Dubai to Bogota
- The written lane, Madrid to Bogota
- The written lane, Miami to Bogota
- The route calculator
More pairs through BOG and ORD: Sao Paulo to Bogota, Paris to Bogota, Barcelona to Bogota, Atlanta to Bogota, Frankfurt to Bogota, Bogota to New York, Bogota to Santiago, Bogota to Toronto.