What airport is BOG?
Why the code is BOG
BOGotá.
The airport authority or a contemporaneous record states this directly.
The airport
- IATA code
- BOG
- ICAO code
- SKBO
- Airport
- El Dorado International Airport
- City
- Bogotá, Colombia
- Code origin
- Documented
At 2,548 m, El Dorado is the highest major international airport in the Americas, and the thin air means fully loaded long-haul departures need most of its 3,800 m runway. It is named for the legend the Spanish came looking for, which is a rare piece of self-aware naming.
The other code, SKBO
Every airport has two codes. The three-letter IATA code, BOG, is the one on your boarding pass and your luggage tag, and it is assigned for commercial use. The four-letter ICAO code, SKBO, is the one pilots and controllers use, and it is assigned geographically: the first letter or two identify the region, so every airport in the same part of the world shares a prefix. That is why SKBO looks nothing like BOG.
Common questions
- What airport is BOG?
- El Dorado International Airport, in Bogotá, Colombia.
- Why is Bogotá's airport called BOG?
- BOGotá.
- What is the difference between BOG and SKBO?
- BOG is the IATA code, used commercially — tickets, timetables, luggage tags. SKBO is the ICAO code, used operationally by pilots and air traffic control, and assigned geographically by region.
Related pages
- Colombia Capital, area, population and currency
- The flag of Colombia Colours, symbols and lookalikes
- Airport codes in Colombia 1 here
Sources
- OurAirports — OurAirports (Public domain)