The sector is held by Avianca, Copa Airlines and Turkish Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BOG Bogota to PTY Panama City
El Dorado International, Colombia, to Tocumen International, Panama. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 16.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 755 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 37m
- Door to door
- 8h 22m
What BOG to PTY looks like
The BOG to PTY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bogota BOG to Panama City PTY is a short sector of 755 km by great circle, flown nonstop 16.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 755 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 37m.
Bogota BOG is a large airport in the network held here, 102 scheduled destinations and 538.2 departures a day. Panama City PTY has 89 destinations and 246.3 departures a day.
Bogota and Panama City keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 PTY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOG to PTY | 16.29 | 114 | Avianca, Copa Airlines, Turkish Airlines |
| PTY to BOG | 10.73 | 75.1 | Copa Airlines, Avianca |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: BOG to PTY runs 16.3 times a day, the return runs 10.7 times a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 16.3 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 189.1 departures a week on BOG to PTY, 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 1h 37m block time on BOG to PTY. 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 PTY in the air, estimated | 97 min | 6h 07m |
| Formalities at PTY | 90 min | 7h 37m |
| Delivery run in Panama City | 45 min | 8h 22m |
| Door to door | 502 min | 8h 22m |
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 PTY is 8h 22m.
A courier who leaves Bogota at 09:00 local is on the ground in Panama City at about 10:37 local and at the door by 12:52 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Panama City, the last useful departure from Bogota is around 14:08 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. 46 of them join BOG to PTY.
| Connecting at | BOG to hub, flights a day | Hub to PTY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medellin MDE | 54.29 | 9.14 | 758 | 3h 07m |
| Cali CLO | 39.43 | 5.29 | 977 | 3h 27m |
| Cartagena CTG | 38.71 | 5.29 | 1,107 | 3h 38m |
| Quito UIO | 7.57 | 7.43 | 1,741 | 4h 22m |
| San Jose SJO | 3.43 | 12 | 1,795 | 4h 24m |
| Aruba AUA | 2.71 | 3.29 | 2,071 | 4h 39m |
With 16.3 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.
46 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 9.1 times a day.
Through MDE the routing covers 758 km against the 755 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 07m 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 30m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Cali CLO at 3h 27m and Cartagena CTG at 3h 38m 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.
Plan Bogota to Panama 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 PTY 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 PTY airport entry
- Hand carry into Colombia
- Hand carry into Panama
- 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 PTY: 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.