AV8 distance and great-circle path
AV8 covers 8,474 km, or 5,265 miles. That makes it a long-haul flight, a widebody route with a full night's flying time. Of the 255 routes we track, it ranks 101 by distance.
The plane leaves Bogotá heading north-east. On the map above, the line looks curved. That is normal. The shortest path over a round planet never looks straight on a flat screen. Our guide explains how the BOG–LHR route appears on a tracker map.
Why AV8 block time differs from cruise time
The schedule allows 10.2 hours from gate to gate. That works out to about 827 km/h. A Boeing 787-8 cruises faster than that. The gap is taxi time, climbing, descending and holding.
Winds aloft shift the real flight time by up to an hour in either direction. See how timing changes the trip in our red-eye flight guide.
What to know about AV8
- Time change: you land 6 hours ahead of the time you left. That is enough to cause jet lag. Here is how pilots handle it.
- High airport at the start: BOG sits 8,361 ft up. Thin air means a longer takeoff run.