From London, United Kingdom to Bogota, Colombia - May, 2007

We flew 2 BMW F650GS from London to Bogota (via Miami).
On the UK side it all went very smoothly. We exchanged few emails to organise the whole thing, with Simon who was very helpful and informative.

On the 4th of May we took the 2 bikes to the packers near Heathrow and left them there with a pile of luggage, helmets etc on the floor...

We only removed windscreens and mirrors from the bikes and had to disconnect the batteries. We could not remove the front wheels to reduce size as the packers needed to wheel the bikes into the purpose built crates later on. I dont think the savings would have been significant anyway.

The bikes arrived earlier than expected at Bogota. On that end, we dealt with a company called Cielos de Peru Airlines. Again on Colombian side, all went very smoothly.

The process is very slow and bureaucratic and take several hours, going from one office to the other to queue and get some paper done. Total cost on Colombian side (to add to the GBP2500) is about USD 150, half for the cargo company, half for customs. Note all costs are for 2 bikes! SO divide by 2 if you only fly 1 bike!
There were no worries at all at any time. All went very well on both sides and we were very happy with the whole process.

Definitely recommend them.

Ah I forgot to say: the crates were superb, the packing of fragile stuff like helmets etc was very carefully done. The bikes were fine. No damage at all. They started straight away! Impressive!