Bogota Airport, Columbia - transit question (1 Viewer)

[Allen]

Hi all

I'm transiting (international flight from London Heathrow) through Bogota Airport this week to Ecuador; just wondered is it's an easy transit/obvious process/route through here? Thanks

 

[THE_FERN]

Hi all

I'm transiting (international flight from London Heathrow) through Bogota Airport this week to Ecuador; just wondered is it's an easy transit/obvious process/route through here? Thanks

Fairly big and chaotic. Helps if you speak Spanish. However, I don't think you'll have problems as an international traveller: can be more difficult if taking internal flights

 

[Allen]

Thanks for the info.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Assuming you're on one ticket and your bags are checked all the way through...

The way it works is there's a separate counter for international transfers near the center of the airport where they check your onward boarding pass. After you pass through that, you end up at the main security checkpoint. Go through that (and the long walk through duty free), and you're in the departures area.

So as long as you follow the signs to "transfers" or "connections" (the signs are bilingual), you'll do fine, although it could be a long walk depending on gate assignments.

 

[Allen]

Thanks Jeff....I and hold luggage are checked in all the way through. That information is much appreciated.

 

[Chris Pringle]

Hope you made it safely to Ecuador in view of the recent events that unfolded there this week.

 

[Allen]

We were lucky....arrived into Guayaquil the day before Foreign Office advised no non essential travel to western provinces and were out of Guayaquil and south east to lodge by the next morning. Oh and transit through Bogota airport is easy.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Glad you made it. Enjoy Ecuador.

 

[Allen]

Glad you made it. Enjoy Ecuador.

Am back now for a week but loved it (albeit we must have had one of the rainiest 2 weeks the guide had seen!), thinking of a trip to Northern Ecuador now