Business Class Flights to Bogota

Avianca, Colombia's flag carrier, flies Bogotá nonstop from Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, New York JFK, Newark, Washington, Boston, Houston, Chicago and Los Angeles, mostly on A320-family aircraft with a recliner business cabin, and on 787s with a lie-flat 1-2-1 business cabin on some Miami, New York and Los Angeles frequencies. American flies from Miami and Dallas, Delta from Atlanta and New York, United from Houston and Newark — all narrowbody recliner First Class on most frequencies, with American occasionally placing a widebody on Miami–Bogotá. JetBlue and Spirit fly without a premium cabin. Copa connects via Panama City with recliner business. The honest summary: on a three-to-five-hour daytime flight, expect a wide recliner, a meal and lounge access rather than a bed, unless you are on an Avianca 787. No US–Bogotá flight has a First Class cabin.

El Dorado is one of South America's best airports and Avianca's hub, with lounges airside and the domestic terminal connecting to Cartagena and Medellín (an hour each), Pereira and Armenia for the coffee region (45 minutes), Santa Marta (90 minutes) and Leticia in the Amazon (two hours) — all on the same ticket where the fare allows. The drive to the Zona Rosa and Chapinero takes 30 to 60 minutes; Bogotá's altitude, 8,660 feet, is worth a slow first afternoon.

Bogotá's weather barely changes through the year — 55 to 68°F, at altitude — so the calendar is about rain: December to March and July to August are drier, April–May and October–November wetter. Christmas–New Year, Easter and the Colombian holiday weekends (there are many) bring domestic travel and fuller flights; February is quiet. Our $1,600 starting fare from Miami is a shoulder-season starting point, and Bogotá is often the cheapest gateway for a Colombia loop — arrive here, fly home from Cartagena on an open-jaw.