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Flight Itinerary for Visa Application in Colombia
Renewing a US visa by dropbox, filing a first B1/B2 interview, or applying somewhere that still wants the full process – this is the flight reservation for the file, not a fare you're stuck negotiating if a date moves. Operating airline, flight number, routing and PNR, in your inbox as a PDF within about a minute. Search from Bogotá, Medellín, Cali or anywhere else in Colombia.
- ✓ Emailed as a PDF within seconds of payment
- ✓ Carrier, flight number and aircraft pulled from live data
- ✓ Nothing to buy again if a date on your file shifts
- Airline
- Real carrier & flight number
- Passengers
- As printed on the passport
- Reference
- Booking ref & PNR
- Delivery
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A provisional flight booking for your Colombia visa
A returning US visa holder here can often skip the interview entirely. A first-time applicant, or a first-time traveller to somewhere else, usually can't.
The US Embassy in Bogotá runs one of the busiest interview waiver programmes anywhere: a Colombian who already holds, or recently held, a B1/B2 visa can frequently renew by dropbox, no interview needed. That's genuinely good news for repeat travellers, and it's also why so much advice about "how long the US visa takes from Colombia" is really describing someone else's experience – a first-time applicant still joins the queue for an interview slot at one of the world's higher-volume posts, and that queue moves on its own schedule.
Europe changed more recently than a lot of people assume. The EU lifted the Schengen visa requirement for Colombian passports on 2 December 2015 – recent enough that older guidance aimed at Colombian travellers sometimes still describes an appointment process that hasn't applied to a short holiday in years. What that exemption doesn't cover is a stay past 90 days: a study place, a job, or a slower-paced trip through the region still means a national visa, filed the ordinary way.
The UK didn't extend Colombia the same courtesy it gave some of its neighbours. Brazilian and Mexican passports picked up six months of UK visa-free travel in 2019; a Colombian passport did not, so a Standard Visitor visa and its own online application are part of a UK trip regardless of how short it is.
Canada required a visa from Colombian citizens until August 2017. What replaced the blanket requirement wasn't full visa-free access – it's an eTA for travellers who've held a Canadian visa in the last ten years or currently hold a valid US visa, and a temporary resident visa application for everyone else. Australia doesn't offer a Colombian passport its ETA or eVisitor route at all, and China's tourist and business visas are filed through a visa centre rather than issued on arrival – both are full applications no matter how the trip is shaped.
None of these missions are actually asking to be paid before they decide. What they're checking is whether the plan is coherent – dates that agree with the hotel booking or invitation letter, and a flight specific enough to verify. Buy the real fare early and a moved interview date or a slower-than-expected decision is a cost you absorb, not the mission.
What this flight reservation for visa is for
Colombian applicants asked to put a trip on paper before a mission has approved it – whether this is a first US application or a renewal, a Schengen long-stay or a UK visit.
- ✓ US B1/B2 visitor visa (first-time applicants especially)
- ✓ UK Standard Visitor visa
- ✓ Canada eTA or temporary resident visa, whichever your visa history requires
- ✓ Australia subclass 600 visitor visa
- ✓ A Chinese tourist or business visa filed through a visa centre
- ✓ A Schengen study, work or long-stay visa once a trip runs past 90 days
- ✓ Any airline or immigration check asking for proof of onward or return travel
What a flight reservation for visa costs from Colombia
One fee per itinerary no matter how many sectors it covers, plus a small addition for each traveller after the first. Weigh that against an actual international fare out of Bogotá, and holding off on the real ticket is the easy call.
One leg, one direction – fits a study placement or work relocation where there's no return date to show yet.
Departure and return together, the shape most US and UK visitor files from Colombia are actually checked against.
A flat rate no matter how many sectors the trip has, including a routing that enters one country and exits through another.
- Each extra adult COL$48,000 · $15
- Each child (2–11) COL$32,000 · $10
- Each infant (under 2) COL$16,000 · $5
Charged in US dollars ($15 / $19 / $25). COP figures are indicative, converted at COL$3,180.39 to $1 on 8 August 2026 – your bank sets its own rate on the day, so expect a small difference.
Your provisional flight booking: search, list, pay, download
No account to open first, and no one to call before you start.
Find a flight that's actually operating
Put in your route and dates out of Bogotá, Medellín, Cali or wherever the trip genuinely begins. The result is checked against live schedules, so it's a service that's really flying.
List every traveller
Enter every traveller's name exactly as it appears on their passport data page, in that same order – the whole party goes on one document.
Pay COL$48,000
COL$48,000 one-way, COL$60,000 round-trip, COL$80,000 multi-city. The charge is in US dollars, and your card issuer sets the peso figure on the day.
Collect the PDF
The moment payment clears, the PDF is on its way. Order Lookup retrieves it again later with your email and booking reference.
Paying for your flight itinerary for visa from Colombia
Works the same as any other dollar-billed site – no special setup on your end.
Bancolombia, Davivienda, BBVA and the rest all work
A Visa or Mastercard from any major Colombian bank clears a USD-denominated charge like this directly, the same as it would on any other international checkout.
No separate approval needed for an amount this small
Some larger international purchases from Colombian accounts draw extra scrutiny; an itinerary at COL$48,000 to COL$80,000 is well under anything that would normally trigger it.
The peso figure you'll actually see
About COL$48,000 one-way, COL$60,000 round-trip and COL$80,000 multi-city. The charge itself settles in US dollars, so the exact peso figure is set by your card issuer on the day.
Card details go to Stripe over an encrypted connection our servers never see. Nothing here runs through a bank transfer or an agent, and we'll never ask for one.
What your dummy flight ticket actually shows
A single PDF, emailed within a minute of paying, structured the way a consulate or visa centre expects travel evidence to appear.
A dummy flight ticket naming an airline that's really on the schedule
Operating airline, flight number and aircraft type for every sector, drawn from live schedule data rather than a typed-in template.
Every connection shown as its own leg
Airports, dates and times across the full journey, with any change of flight through a US, European or Central American hub set out openly rather than folded into a single line.
Names copied straight from the passport
Each traveller's name printed exactly as their data page shows it, alongside a booking reference and PNR.
A reference that actually resolves
Look it up and a genuine booking appears, because a real reservation is behind it – the reason to use this rather than an edited image.
Departure airports for your dummy flight ticket from Colombia
El Dorado in Bogotá handles the US Embassy's caseload and most long-haul departures, while Medellín and Cali carry a large share of regional traffic. All seven airports here are in the search index; starting from anywhere else in Colombia – or outside it entirely – is no obstacle either.
| Airport | City | IATA |
|---|---|---|
| El Dorado International Airport | Bogotá | BOG |
| José María Córdova International Airport | Medellín | MDE |
| Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport | Cali | CLO |
| Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport | Barranquilla | BAQ |
| Rafael Núñez International Airport | Cartagena | CTG |
| Matecaña International Airport | Pereira | PEI |
| Simón Bolívar International Airport | Santa Marta | SMR |
Multiple daily nonstops on Avianca and American. The busiest single US route out of Colombia, and the departure point for the Embassy's dropbox renewals as much as first-time interviews.
Avianca's nonstop out of José María Córdova. B1/B2 interviews still run at the Embassy in Bogotá regardless of which city you fly from – set departure safely after whatever date you're given.
British Airways' nonstop. Unlike a Brazilian or Mexican passport, a Colombian one still needs a Standard Visitor visa for this trip, short holiday or not.
Air Canada's nonstop. Whether this needs only an eTA or a full temporary resident visa depends on your Canadian and US visa history, not on the airport you depart from.
Avianca and Iberia both fly this nonstop. A holiday under 90 days needs no visa since December 2015; a study, work or longer stay still goes through the ordinary national-visa process.
No nonstop between Colombia and mainland China – expect a connection through the US or a Gulf hub. A Chinese visa application wants that specific routing named, not just the two endpoints.
Colombian visa applications that ask for a flight reservation
What's required, and how much of it you can skip, depends on the destination and – for the US especially – on whether this is a renewal or a first application.
United States
The Embassy in Bogotá runs one of the highest-volume dropbox renewal programmes anywhere, which shortens the process a great deal for a returning visa holder. A first-time applicant still joins the interview queue at one of the world's busier posts.
United Kingdom
Unlike some neighbouring passports, a Colombian one doesn't get visa-free UK entry – a Standard Visitor application and its own online form apply to every visit, regardless of length.
Canada
A blanket visa requirement lifted in August 2017. Today it's an eTA if you've held a Canadian visa in the last decade or hold a valid US visa now, and a full temporary resident visa application otherwise.
Australia
No ETA or eVisitor route is open to a Colombian passport – every visit is a subclass 600 visa application, filed online with the same travel plan any other visitor category asks for.
China
Tourist and business visas go through a visa application centre rather than being issued on arrival, and typically ask for a round-trip flight reservation among the supporting documents.
Schengen Area (long-stay)
Short holidays have needed no visa since the EU lifted the requirement on 2 December 2015. A stay past 90 days – study, work, or just a slower trip through the region – is a separate national-visa application with the same coherent travel plan a short-stay file would want.
Visa rules shift without much notice – Colombia's own Schengen exemption and Canada's 2017 change are both reminders that an assumption from a few years back can be out of date. Confirm the current requirement before you lodge.
Where a Colombian flight reservation for visa comes unstuck
The document itself is rarely what trips an application up. Nearly every setback traces back to the itinerary conflicting with something else in the file.
Assuming a dropbox renewal like a first interview
The Embassy's interview waiver programme is generous, but it's built for returning visa holders who still qualify. A first-time applicant, or someone whose last visa expired too long ago, is on the standard interview track and should plan around that queue, not the dropbox timeline.
Assuming the UK works like Schengen or the US Visa Waiver
A Colombian passport doesn't get visa-free UK entry the way some neighbouring passports do. Skipping the Standard Visitor application because "it's just a short trip" is one of the more avoidable ways a UK trip stalls before it starts.
Treating the pre-2015 Schengen rules as current
Colombia's Schengen exemption is real but recent. Older guidance built around booking a Schengen appointment for a two-week holiday is now describing a step that isn't required – though it still applies in full to a study or work stay past 90 days.
A name that doesn't match the passport's data page
Whatever form of your name you use day to day, the application needs the passport's exact spelling and order – no abbreviating, no rearranging to fit a "first name, last name" field. Copy it character for character.
A trip that contradicts the hotel booking or invitation
The itinerary gets checked against everything else in the file – an invitation letter, a hotel reservation, an admission letter. Any gap between them is precisely what an officer flags, with no room to explain it after the fact.
Ticketing the real flight to feel covered
Buying the real fare "just in case" tends to end in a change fee once an interview shifts, or the fare lost entirely on a refusal. The reservation absorbs that risk instead – book the actual ticket only once the visa comes through.
Questions about your flight itinerary for visa from Colombia
Questions applicants filing from Bogotá, Medellín and the rest of Colombia ask most before they order.
I'm renewing my US visa – do I still need to worry about interview waits?
Often not the same way a first-time applicant does. The Embassy in Bogotá's dropbox programme lets many qualifying renewals skip the interview entirely. It's worth checking you still qualify before assuming, since eligibility rules do change.
Do Colombians need a visa for the UK?
Yes – unlike some neighbouring passports that picked up visa-free UK travel in 2019, a Colombian passport still needs a Standard Visitor visa for any visit, however short.
Is it true Colombians don't need a Schengen visa anymore?
For a short holiday, correct – the EU lifted that requirement on 2 December 2015. It only covers stays up to 90 days, though; a study place, a job, or a longer trip still needs a national visa filed the ordinary way.
What about Canada – eTA or full visa?
Colombia's blanket visa requirement was lifted in August 2017. Since then, an eTA covers you if you've held a Canadian visa in the last decade or currently hold a valid US visa; otherwise it's a full temporary resident visa application.
Am I meant to book the actual flight before I apply?
No – this stands in for the ticket at the application stage. The genuine fare gets booked once the visa is granted, not before. An interview date, or a processing time, can move enough that a fare bought early is one you end up changing.
How much does a flight itinerary cost, in pesos?
COL$48,000 one-way, COL$60,000 round-trip, COL$80,000 multi-city, whatever the number of sectors on the multi-city document. Extra travellers run COL$48,000 per adult, COL$32,000 per child aged 2–11 and COL$16,000 per infant. The charge settles in US dollars – your card issuer sets the peso figure on the day.
Will a Colombian bank card work at checkout?
Yes. A standard Visa or Mastercard from Bancolombia, Davivienda, BBVA or another major bank clears a USD charge like this the same way it would on any other international site.
Is this a genuine reservation, or something generated to look like one?
It's a genuine reservation on a flight that's actually scheduled. The airline, flight number, aircraft, routing and times come from live flight data, and the PDF carries a booking reference and PNR that Order Lookup can retrieve later. It isn't a paid ticket – a reservation is exactly what most missions want at this stage.
Which Colombian airport should I search from?
Bogotá (BOG), Medellín (MDE) and Cali (CLO) carry the busiest routes and are all in the search index, alongside Barranquilla (BAQ), Cartagena (CTG), Pereira (PEI) and Santa Marta (SMR). Building an itinerary from an airport outside Colombia entirely is no obstacle either.
What if a consulate actually checks the booking reference?
It resolves, because a real reservation is behind it – that's the whole difference between this and an edited screenshot. The review is about whether the travel plan is coherent, not whether an airline's already been paid.
What happens if the visa application is refused?
The fee covers producing and delivering the document itself, regardless of the outcome – that decision belongs to the mission alone. It caps your exposure at COL$48,000–COL$80,000, rather than an international fare that's rarely refundable once a refusal comes back.
Get your dummy flight ticket ready, not the real ticket bought
Search a live flight out of Bogotá, Medellín, Cali or wherever your trip starts, add your travellers, and pay by card. The PDF is ready before the rest of the file comes together – about COL$48,000, with the real fare waiting until there's a visa to use it for.
Get your flight itinerary – from COL$48,000