La Paz - Post Report Question and Answers
What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?
California. It's expensive to fly back and the flight times are difficult because they leave at 3am. Most people transit through Bogota. - Jan 2024
Washington DC. No direct flight. Have to stop in Bogota. Won't get into La Paz until 2am. The only daily flight from Bogota. Very few flights into and out of La Paz. - Aug 2022
It takes some effort to arrive in La Paz and to leave La Paz. American Airlines stopped flying to Bolivia, and all of the flights leave in the middle of the night. They almost all pass through Santa Cruz, Lima, or Bogota. It takes upwards of 20 hours to get to Arizona. Maybe 16+ with connections to the DC area. - Dec 2019
Home city is West Palm Beach, Florida. There are no longer direct flights to La Paz. Connections include Bogota, Colombia, or Lima, Peru, and Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Flight from Miami is 7 hours, not counting layovers. This is a difficult country to reach by air. Visa costs are high, the altitude is physically demanding, the travel to and from the airport is dizzying, and local travel is not cheap. - Feb 2019
DC. DC to Miami to La Paz. Miami to La Paz is direct on American Airlines. Approximately 7 hours. - Sep 2016
SC Shortest trip is about 14 hours with two stops. For the most part, it seems you can't leave La Paz without making a stop in Santa Cruz, it can add about 3 hours to your flight. It is not the same when coming in. - Jun 2015
La Paz is about 10 hours from DC, going through Bogota. - Apr 2015
U.S. West Coast about 18 hours with a connection in Miami. You can technically connect in Bogota or Lima but the AA flight from La Paz to Miami is the only authorized U.S. flagged carrier. - Nov 2014
From Washington, the only approved routing is American Airlines through Miami. It takes about 12 hours with transit time. We're hoping a United codeshare with Avianca Airlines might happen as it allows some better options for onward connections and pet travel. - Jan 2014
From Miami it takes 6-7 hours. Longer to get back to Miami -- and it's usually a day flight. - Jul 2013
Flight from Miami to La Paz is 6 hours. - Jun 2013
Washington DC, 3 hours to Miami, 7 hours overnight flight to La Paz. - Jul 2012
Florida, 8 hours. - Feb 2012
Washington DC. 7-8 hours to/from Miami. - Aug 2011
Houston, TX. 13 hours aprox. Connections in Miami and Santa Cruz, Bolivia. - May 2011
North Carolina, with a travel time of about 12 hours, connecting in Miami Florida - Mar 2011
Florida, 10 hours. - Aug 2010
Buenos Aires Argentina or Mexico City. Connections to either one of these cities is not great. There is only one direct flight abroad from La Paz, to Lima - Jan 2010
