Flights across South America

3,644 Flights routes run across South America, reaching 250 places in 13 countries through 92 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on 9 October 2026, the cheapest fare is €39.08 and the fastest journey is 4h 2m door to door. A median route runs 1,215 km.

Checked 9 October 2026Priced for 9 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

The network
Modes compared
Routes
Countries
When to book
Operators
Questions

The network

Flights in South America, in numbers

What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.

3,644Routes we sell
996Corridors
250Places served
13Countries
92Operators
2,062Domestic routes
428Cross border routes
1,154Routes out of the region
1,215 kmMedian route
13,476 kmLongest route

Door to door

How the modes compare across South America

Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in South America, priced on 9 October 2026 for one passenger.

Median fare, median door-to-door time and median carbon per passenger, over the corridors of South America where each mode runs.
Mode	Corridors priced	From	Door to door	CO2
Coach	7	€78.28	11h 58m	44.8 kg
Train	1	€144.99	7h 12m	297.6 kg
Flight	16	€160.62	5h 40m	408.7 kg

Routes

The corridors that matter in South America

Ranked by how much service runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.

The busiest routes we sell in South America, priced on 9 October 2026 for one passenger with every fee included.
Route	From	Fastest	Distance
Belo Horizonte to Rio de Janeiro flight	€39.08	4h 2m	341 km
Cúcuta to Bogotá flight	€44.98	4h 7m	406 km
Maracaibo to Caracas flight	€55.01	4h 16m	518 km
Port Montt to Santiago flight	€91.00	4h 46m	914 km
Porto Alegre to Rio de Janeiro flight	€109.29	5h 2m	1,126 km
Calama to Santiago flight	€119.32	5h 11m	1,235 km
Quito to Lima flight	€126.40	5h 18m	1,324 km
Recife to Brasília flight	€156.49	5h 43m	1,658 km
Montevideo to São Paulo flight	€164.75	5h 36m	1,565 km
Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro flight	€184.22	6h 7m	1,967 km
Florianópolis to Santiago flight	€207.23	6h 27m	2,210 km
Miami to Bogotá flight	€225.52	6h 44m	2,442 km
Belém to São Paulo flight	€228.47	6h 46m	2,465 km
Santiago to Rio de Janeiro flight	€269.18	7h 22m	2,925 km
Madrid to São Paulo flight	€784.25	14h 33m	8,385 km
Buenos Aires to Madrid flight	€901.66	16h 34m	10,046 km

Countries

Countries in South America

Every country in South America we sell in, most routes first.

Routes, places and carriers in each country of South America.
Country	Routes	Places	Operators
Brazil	1,830	123	55
Colombia	514	47	46
Argentina	400	56	39
Chile	336	46	31
Venezuela	288	32	30
Peru	276	38	32
Bolivia	128	19	12
Ecuador	118	13	26
Uruguay	56	12	17
Guyana	42	3	10
Paraguay	40	9	12
Suriname	26	4	5
French Guiana	18	3	3

Booking window

When to book in South America

The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in South America.

€166.523 days
€162.397 days
€126.4021 days
€88.6445 days
€131.1284 days

Cheapest lead time: Across the routes we sampled the typical fare is lowest around 45 days ahead, at €88.64.
How much it moves: The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 47 percent. At the dearest point the typical fare is €166.52, 3 days out.

Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell by Flights, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
Distance	Routes	Share	Nearest of them
Under 200 km	98	3%	Araxá, 121 km
200 to 600 km	950	26%	Antofagasta, 201 km
600 to 1,500 km	954	26%	Campinas, 603 km
Over 1,500 km	1,642	45%	Sinop, 1519 km

Carriers

Airlines

The carriers with the largest networks inside South America.

United Airlines TAM Brazilian Airlines TUI fly Netherlands Avianca El Salvador LAN Peru LAN Colombia JetSMART Argentina MasAir LAN Express LAN Ecuador

Flight destinations

Flights to Rio de Janeiro Flights to São Paulo Flights to Buenos Aires Flights to Lima Flights to Bogotá Flights to Santiago Flights to Brasília Flights to Belo Horizonte Flights to Montevideo Flights to Quito Flights to Salvador Flights to Córdoba Flights to Campinas Flights to Recife Flights to Fortaleza Flights to Curitiba Flights to Porto Alegre Flights to Guayaquil Flights to Manaus Flights to Cusco Flights to Belém Flights to Medellín Flights to Caracas Flights to Santa Cruz de la Sierra Flights to Florianópolis Flights to Maceió Flights to Goiânia Flights to Arequipa Flights to Cali Flights to Cuiabá Flights to Natal Flights to João Pessoa Flights to Bucaramanga Flights to Vitória Flights to Rosario Flights to Cúcuta Flights to Foz do Iguaçu Flights to Cartagena Flights to Campo Grande Flights to Teresina Flights to Porto Seguro Flights to São Luís Flights to Asunción Flights to Tacna Flights to Uberlândia Flights to La Paz Flights to Aracaju Flights to Barranquilla

Other ways to travel across South America

Trains across South America Ferries across South America Everything we sell in South America

Common questions about Flights across South America

How many Flights routes does Orlero sell across South America?

3,644 of them, across 13 countries reaching 250 places through 92 operators

How much does travelling by Flights cost in South America?

On the 16 busiest Flights corridors in South America, priced on 9 October 2026, the lowest fare is €39.08 and the median is €160.62.

Is Flights the fastest way across South America?

On the corridors we priced, flight takes a median of 5h 40m door to door, against 7h 12m by Train. Both figures include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the other end.

Which countries in South America have Flights routes we sell?

Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, French Guiana.

Who runs the Flights services in South America?

United Airlines, American Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Lufthansa, Air France, among 92 carriers we sell across South America.

When should I book travel across South America?

Fares on the corridors we sampled bottom out about 45 days before departure. Booking then rather than 3 days ahead was 47 percent cheaper on this sample.

How far apart are the places we sell in South America?

The median route runs 1,215 km in a straight line and the shortest is 121 km. The longest we sell is 13,476 km, from Buenos Aires to Moscow.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares

Regions: A region is a set of countries, and a route counts for it when either end is inside it. Countries are grouped from their ISO code alone, so the map grows with the data and nothing here is drawn by hand.
The sample: Fares, journey times and carbon are measured on the 16 highest ranked corridors in this region, spread across it rather than taken from the top, so the figures describe the region and not its busiest country.