The sector is held by United Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BOG Bogota to IAH Houston
El Dorado International, Colombia, to George Bush Intercontinental, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 3,585 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 49m
- Door to door
- 11h 34m
What BOG to IAH looks like
The BOG to IAH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bogota BOG to Houston IAH is a long haul sector of 3,585 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,585 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 49m.
Bogota BOG is a large airport in the network held here, 102 scheduled destinations and 538.2 departures a day. Houston IAH has 197 destinations and 641 departures a day.
Houston 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 IAH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOG to IAH | 2.29 | 16 | United Airlines |
| IAH to BOG | 2.43 | 17 | United Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, United Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 33 departures a week on BOG to IAH, 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 4h 49m block time on BOG to IAH. 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 IAH in the air, estimated | 289 min | 9h 19m |
| Formalities at IAH | 90 min | 10h 49m |
| Delivery run in Houston | 45 min | 11h 34m |
| Door to door | 694 min | 11h 34m |
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 IAH is 11h 34m.
A courier who leaves Bogota at 09:00 local is on the ground in Houston at about 12:49 local and at the door by 15:04 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Houston, the last useful departure from Bogota is around 11:56 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. 34 of them join BOG to IAH.
| Connecting at | BOG to hub, flights a day | Hub to IAH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medellin MDE | 54.29 | 1.14 | 3,585 | 6h 23m |
| Cancun CUN | 3.86 | 5.57 | 3,585 | 6h 35m |
| Panama City PTY | 16.29 | 2.29 | 3,611 | 6h 46m |
| San Jose SJO | 3.43 | 3.43 | 3,761 | 6h 48m |
| San Salvador SAL | 3.43 | 5.86 | 3,852 | 6h 55m |
| Guatemala City GUA | 3.14 | 3.43 | 3,885 | 6h 58m |
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.
34 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Medellin MDE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MDE the routing covers 3,585 km against the 3,585 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 23m 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 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Cancun CUN at 6h 35m and Panama City PTY at 6h 46m 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 Houston, Houston HOU is 38 km away by great circle and carries 145 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bogota to Houston 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 IAH 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 IAH 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 IAH: 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.