Bogotá - Getting There By Air
Tel: (1) 425 1000 (El Dorado) or ext 3218 (Puente Aéreo).
Website: www.aerocivil.gov.co
El Dorado Airport is located 13km (8 miles) northwest of the city centre. There are two terminals, El Dorado (the main one) and Puente Aereo (1km/0.6 miles before El Dorado), so make sure you know which terminal you're flying from.
Airport facilities: These include snack bars, restaurants, Internet cafes and bureau de change, ATMs, several shops, including a book shop, a chemist and duty-free.
Transport to the city centre: Both terminals are easily accessible from the centre of Bogota by inexpensive colectivos and busetas (marked ‘Aeropuerto'). In town, you catch them on Calle 19 or Carrera 10. At the airport, they stop next to the El Dorado terminal (they do however stop at Puente Aero). The service stops at about 2000. A taxi from/to the airport costs around Col$12,000 (US$6). At the El Dorado terminal there is a special official taxi service which protects travellers against taxi ‘rip off'; visitors get a printout at the taxi booth showing how much the journey to their desired destination in/around Bogota will be; the ticket is then showed to a taxi driver who cannot charge more.
Bogota also has two other airports; the military official CATAM base and Guayamaral, which handles light aircraft and operates a flying school as well.
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