Cheap Airline Tickets Colombia | Discount Flights Bogota Colombia

Air travelers searching for cheap airline tickets to Colombia are in for a pleasant surprise. Flights from the US to Bogota are very competitive. In particular, there are some very good discount flights regularly advertised out of Florida. Some of the major airlines use Florida as a hub for flights to Colombia. American Airlines and Avianca use Miami as their hub for the majority of their Latin American flights. Spirit Airlines fly to all Latin American destinations out of their Fort Lauderdale hub and JetBlue fly out of Orlando, Florida.

Travel Search Engines – Searches For Airline Tickets

It isn't just out of Florida that you will find cheap flights to Bogota, Colombia. Travelocity, Mobissimo and the other travel aggregators often advertise great deals on airline tickets to Bogota. If you do a search with one of the travel engines, the airport code for Bogota is BOG.

When searching with Travelocity, they have a useful feature that you may want to try. Rather than selecting a specific date, you can select “My Dates Are Flexible”. Your search then will be for the lowest priced airfares over a span of several months or you can narrow it down to as little as a month if you like. You can also choose to search for a specific date, plus or minus three days if your travel dates are not as flexible.

The flexible travel dates feature is not available for all destinations. It is only available for major airports. It is available for the airport BOG.

In addition to flights out of Florida, you will find some of the best prices on flights to Colombia if you are flying from the East Coast. New York, New Jersey and Washington DC have consistently low priced flights. Out of New York, LaGuardia has the cheaper flights. In Washington, the smaller Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has the better priced flights. You have the most choice flying out of Newark, New Jersey. The pricing is good from Newark and you can choose non-stop flights with three different airlines; Avianca, Continental Airlines and United Airlines.

From the West Coast of the US it is more expensive, but flying out of Los Angeles is your best bet for the lowest prices. Delta Air Lines are the only airline with direct flights to Bogota, Colombia from LAX.

Quick, what is the first airline of the Americas? Avianca isn't an airline that comes to mind. How about this, Avianca has one of the most modern fleets in all of the Americas. If you plan to fly from the US, Canada or Europe you should consider Avianca.

Avianca is Colombia's largest airline and is the oldest continuously operating airline in the Americas. With its modern fleet and broad coverage of cities throughout the Americas it is a comfortable and convenient airline to fly with. In 2009, Avianca and TACA entered into an alliance. With this alliance, they have 130 aircraft and offer flights to over 100 destinations throughout South America, Central America, the United States, Canada and Europe.

In the US, Avianca offer flights to Bogota, Colombia from the following US cities:

• Atlanta, Georgia
  
• Chicago, Illinois
  
• Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas
  
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  
• Houston, Texas
  
• Los Angeles, California
  
• Miami, Florida
  
• New York, New York
  
• Newark, New Jersey
  
• Orlando, Florida
  
• San Francisco, California
  
• Washington, DC
  

In 2009 Avianca and TACA created a new alliance. TACA is an El Salvadoran airline with its hub city in San Salvador. All flights to Central and South America with TACA fly to El Salvador, before continuing on to the final destination.

TACA is my favorite airline to fly to Central or South America. The cabin crew are great, the aircraft fleet is very new and the connection in San Salvador is great because the airport in San Salvador is very clean, new and efficient.

Also, Avianca and TACA announced in November 2010 that they have been welcomed into the STAR Alliance. TACA and Avianca will become full members of STAR Alliance in 2012.

Flying from Canada to Colombia, your best bet for flights is out of Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal. Toronto is the city with the best priced airline tickets to Bogota. LACSA which is a TACA partner fly out of Toronto and Avianca offer flights out of Toronto. In addition to Toronto, you can fly Avianca from Vancouver, BC and Montreal Quebec.

Avianca is best bet for flights to Bogota, Colombia from any country in South America or Central America. Avianca is their national airline and they have the most flights of any airline. Avianca's fleet is one of the newest and their partnership with TACA make for convenient connecting flights. Both airlines offer great service.