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"With the launch of this new route, Avianca becomes the first and only airline to directly link Bogotá with Boston and vice versa," says the airline.

Aerocivil is investigating how a suitcase containing cocaine — that the passenger says did not belong to him — came to be found on an Interjet aircraft.

Avianca currently has four weekly flights to Los Angeles, and its upcoming daily route will be operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

While the number of Colombians traveling to the small South American nation has been meager in the past, the figures are growing.

"It is the largest investment in the history of Bogotá," said President Santos.

Royal Dutch Airlines will fly its Boeing 787-9 aircraft to Cartagena's Rafael Núñez International Airport three times each week.

The only two airports in the region ahead of El Dorado are Mexico City International Airport and São Paulo–Congonhas Airport.

A cargo plane's landing gear was destroyed when arriving at Bogotá's El Dorado airport late Tuesday and sat broken down on the runway all night.

Aerocivil says that it will invest roughly $2.3 million USD to put a more-advanced instrument landing system at El Dorado.

A terrifying incident in the skies over Venezuela didn't cause a crash, but officials are investigating a tense pursuit by military jets that triggered the Avianca 787's collision-warning system.