The sector is held by ANA, Avianca, Gol and United Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BOG Bogota to IAD Washington DC
El Dorado International, Colombia, to Washington Dulles, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 3,822 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 06m
- Door to door
- 11h 51m
What BOG to IAD looks like
The BOG to IAD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bogota BOG to Washington DC IAD is a long haul sector of 3,822 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,822 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 06m.
Bogota BOG is a large airport in the network held here, 102 scheduled destinations and 538.2 departures a day. Washington DC IAD has 270 destinations and 481.8 departures a day.
Washington DC runs no time shift at all of Bogota in January and one hour ahead 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 IAD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOG to IAD | 2.29 | 16 | ANA, Avianca, Gol, United Airlines |
| IAD to BOG | 2.29 | 16 | Avianca |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 32.1 departures a week on BOG to IAD, 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 06m block time on BOG to IAD. 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 IAD in the air, estimated | 306 min | 9h 36m |
| Formalities at IAD | 90 min | 11h 06m |
| Delivery run in Washington DC | 45 min | 11h 51m |
| Door to door | 711 min | 11h 51m |
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 IAD is 11h 51m.
A courier who leaves Bogota at 09:00 local is on the ground in Washington DC at about 14:06 local and at the door by 16:21 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Washington DC, the last useful departure from Bogota is around 10:39 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. 28 of them join BOG to IAD.
| Connecting at | BOG to hub, flights a day | Hub to IAD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panama City PTY | 16.29 | 3.29 | 4,082 | 7h 07m |
| Punta Cana PUJ | 4.86 | 1.14 | 4,095 | 7h 14m |
| Fort Lauderdale FLL | 2.29 | 3.14 | 3,914 | 7h 15m |
| Orlando MCO | 5.86 | 7.01 | 3,967 | 7h 19m |
| Tampa TPA | 1.14 | 5 | 4,043 | 7h 25m |
| San Juan SJU | 1.57 | 1.14 | 4,299 | 7h 29m |
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.
28 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Panama City PTY, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.3 times a day.
Through PTY the routing covers 4,082 km against the 3,822 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 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 2h 01m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Punta Cana PUJ at 7h 14m and Fort Lauderdale FLL at 7h 15m 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 Washington DC, Washington DC DCA is 38 km away by great circle and carries 112 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bogota to Washington DC 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 IAD 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 IAD 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 IAD: 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.