The sector is held by Avianca.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BOG Bogota to GUA Guatemala City
El Dorado International, Colombia, to La Aurora International, Guatemala. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,103 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 11m
- Door to door
- 9h 56m
What BOG to GUA looks like
The BOG to GUA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bogota BOG to Guatemala City GUA is a medium haul sector of 2,103 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,103 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 11m.
Bogota BOG is a large airport in the network held here, 102 scheduled destinations and 538.2 departures a day. Guatemala City GUA has 26 destinations and 54.2 departures a day.
Bogota carries about 9.9 times the departures of Guatemala City, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Guatemala City is one hour behind of Bogota all year.
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 GUA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOG to GUA | 3.14 | 22 | Avianca |
| GUA to BOG | 2.57 | 18 | Avianca |
One carrier holds the sector, Avianca, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 3.1 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 40 departures a week on BOG to GUA, 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 3h 11m block time on BOG to GUA. 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 GUA in the air, estimated | 191 min | 7h 41m |
| Formalities at GUA | 90 min | 9h 11m |
| Delivery run in Guatemala City | 45 min | 9h 56m |
| Door to door | 596 min | 9h 56m |
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 GUA is 9h 56m.
A courier who leaves Bogota at 09:00 local is on the ground in Guatemala City at about 11:11 local and at the door by 13:26 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Guatemala City, the last useful departure from Bogota is around 13:34 local.
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. 19 of them join BOG to GUA.
| Connecting at | BOG to hub, flights a day | Hub to GUA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose SJO | 3.43 | 3.43 | 2,111 | 4h 42m |
| San Salvador SAL | 3.43 | 3.86 | 2,105 | 4h 44m |
| Panama City PTY | 16.29 | 6.57 | 2,113 | 4h 51m |
| Cancun CUN | 3.86 | 1.86 | 3,093 | 5h 57m |
| Santo Domingo SDQ | 3.43 | 0.57 | 3,865 | 6h 56m |
| Mexico City MEX | 6.57 | 3.71 | 4,215 | 7h 24m |
With 3.1 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is San Jose SJO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.4 times a day.
Through SJO the routing covers 2,111 km against the 2,103 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 42m 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 31m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, San Salvador SAL at 4h 44m and Panama City PTY at 4h 51m 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 Guatemala City, San Salvador SAL is 203 km away by great circle and carries 29 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bogota to Guatemala City 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 GUA 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 GUA airport entry
- Hand carry into Colombia
- Hand carry into Guatemala
- 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 GUA: 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.