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Home to Avianca, one of the oldest airlines in the world; large volumes of cut flowers are also exported as air cargo from Bogotá.
9 airlines
Scheduled airlines with a hub and connecting flights – usually on short-, medium- and long-haul routes.
Avianca
AV / AVA
Colombia’s flag carrier with a hub in Bogotá: founded in 1919 as SCADTA, the world’s second-oldest airline still in existence after KLM, a Star Alliance member and today part of the Abra Group – a visitor in Europe with the Boeing 787-8.
LATAM Airlines Colombia
4C / ARE
The Colombian subsidiary of the LATAM group grew out of the regional airline AIRES. Today it flies Airbus A320s from Bogotá across Colombia and the region – Colombia’s number two behind Avianca.
Cheap point-to-point flights, often with a single-type fleet, many bases and short turnaround times.
Viva Air Colombia
VH / VVC
Historic low-cost airline from Colombia: launched in 2012 as VivaColombia, with an all-A320 fleet and an offshoot in Peru – shut down in February 2023 after the takeover by Avianca was not approved in time.
Wingo
P5 / RPB
The Colombian low-cost brand of Copa Holdings: grown out of AeroRepública, based at Bogotá-El Dorado, an all-Boeing 737 fleet with Panamanian registrations.
Short routes with turboprops and regional jets, often as feeders to the big hubs.
Clic
VE / EFY
Colombian regional airline from Bogotá that was called EasyFly until August 2023: an all-ATR fleet, flights between mid-sized cities and a name change after a trademark dispute with the owner of easyJet.
Satena
9R / NSE
Colombia’s state-owned regional airline: founded in 1962 to connect remote parts of the country, closely tied to the Air Force and today flying ATRs, Twin Otters and ERJ-145s.
All-cargo airlines, cargo subsidiaries and express services with their own freighters.
Aerosucre
A4 / KRE
Colombia’s long-established cargo airline from Bogotá: for decades one of the last operators of the Boeing 727F, today flying aging Boeing 737 freighters domestically, in the Caribbean and to Venezuela and Ecuador.
Avianca Cargo
QT / TPA
The cargo airline of Colombia’s Avianca group, known as Tampa Cargo until 2013: Airbus A330 freighters, hubs in Bogotá, Medellín and Miami – and tons of cut flowers for the US and Europe.
LAS Líneas Aéreas Suramericanas
4L / LAU
Historic cargo airline from Bogotá: from the C-46 and the Caravelle to the Boeing 727 freighter, LAS Cargo flew across Latin America and the Caribbean for a good five decades before it all ended in 2023.
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