Route
What you fly over from Madrid to Bogotá
Between Madrid and Bogotá your aircraft touches 5 countries: it lands in two and flies over 3. This is the route computed as in your Passport: a great circle between the two airports and a 5 km corridor over the countries.
Countries in flying order
- 1SpainLanded
- 2PortugalFlown over
- 3DominicaFlown over
- 4VenezuelaFlown over
- 5ColombiaLanded
Estimated great-circle route with the usual corridor adjustment; the actual flight varies with wind and traffic. The return flight crosses the same countries in reverse.
What you see from the window
After Galicia and the Azores or Madeira, the Atlantic on a diagonal to the south-west. The first land is Dominica, in the Lesser Antilles, and soon Venezuela. The arrival crosses the Llanos and climbs the Eastern Cordillera to the Bogotá savanna.
The usual aircraft
This route is usually flown by Airbus A350, Boeing 787. At cruise the cabin is held at a pressure equivalent to about 6 000 ft (1 829 m) of altitude: that is why your ears pop on the way down.
Bogotá's airport sits at 2,548 m: higher than the aircraft's cabin altitude at cruise. That is why aircraft here need long runways and leave with less weight on hot days.
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