Private Jet Bogotá to Medellin

Thirty-eight minutes, and most of them are not cruise

The figures stored for this pair are 215 km and a block time of 38 minutes. Divide one by the other and the sector averages roughly 340 km/h from wheels-up to wheels-down. Our reference cruise speeds begin at 650 km/h for the light category and reach 900 km/h for ultra-long-range, so the distance between that average and any catalogue speed is wide. Climb and descent take up most of a leg this short; there is very little level cruise left for a faster aeroplane to convert into saved minutes.

Range is just as irrelevant here. 215 km is 8.6 percent of the 2,500 km reference range we publish for a light jet, and a smaller fraction again of everything above it.

Jose Maria Cordova sits 4,479 ft higher than El Dorado

El Dorado is recorded at 2,548 ft. Jose Maria Cordova, the Medellin field on this pair, is recorded at 7,027 ft. The two ends are separated by 4,479 ft of elevation, which is a lot of vertical for 215 km of horizontal.

Elevation is one of the inputs an operator puts into a performance calculation for a given aircraft, weight and day. The number is ours to publish. What it does to the result is not, because that computation does not exist in our data and we are not going to approximate it.

3,800 m on departure, 3,500 m on arrival

El Dorado's runway is listed at 3,800 m, Jose Maria Cordova's at 3,500 m. The smaller of the two is what a mission gets planned around, and on this pair it belongs to the arrival. We hold no per-category runway figure, so the page reports both measurements and draws no threshold out of them.

El Dorado carries customs facilities and round-the-clock operations in our record. Nothing equivalent is recorded on the Medellin side, so we make no claim about its hours.

One time zone for both ends

Both airports are filed under America/Bogota. There is no offset to absorb: the local clock on arrival reads the departure time plus the 38-minute block plus taxi at either end. The coordinates say the same thing geographically — about 1.5 degrees of latitude and 1.3 degrees of longitude, a short hop to the north-west inside one country.

What the price spread actually buys

Our indicative one-way estimates for Bogota to Medellin run EUR 6,500 light, EUR 7,500 midsize, EUR 11,000 heavy and EUR 18,000 ultra-long-range: a factor of 2.77 between the ends of the scale for the same 38 minutes. Since neither range nor speed separates the categories over a leg like this, what the spread corresponds to is cabin and seat count — 7 passengers maximum in the light reference, 10 midsize, 16 heavy, 19 ultra. Those definitions are set out in our aircraft category guide.