Tegucigalpa - 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?
DC so a flight to Miami and then onward still takes a days' worth of travel because of the flight patterns from the "new" airport Palmerola. - Mar 2024
From the US. Came from Miami and the flight is short but airport is in Comayagua which is 75 minutes away up and down 2 mountains. Imagine flying in with 2 kids and then spending an hour going through immigration (they've gotten better) and then driving on mountain roads for 75-90 minutes. It's a full day of travel. - Jan 2024
Kansas City, MO Most flights to the US seem run daily through Houston and Miami. I'm sure there are others (perhaps Dallas) but these two are the most common routes to the US. There is one flight/day from Houston and it leaves around 9:30 am so most flights leave your home city around dawn or you need to fly into Houston the night before. Flights here are still ridiculously overpriced compared to the rest of Central America. For context: it's currently about $900 from Chicago/Comayagua and $500 from Chicago/San Salvador or Chicago/Guatemala City or Chicago/Managua. We keep hoping that prices will go down now that the new airport has been functioning for over a year but no such luck. - Aug 2023
Texas; two flights. - Feb 2022
Flights to Washington include one stop-over (Miami, Houston, or Atlanta) and usually consist of roughly two 2.5-3.0 hour flights with 1.5 hours for stopover. - Oct 2019
United States, Virginia. Two hour flight to Miami, 2.5hr flight to IAD or DCA. Also connections through Houston and if you fly a Latin American airline, through El Sal and Panama City. - Jul 2018
Chicago. Major US airlines fly through Houston, Miami, or Atlanta. They each run only one or two flights a day, and don't want to leave planes in Tegucigalpa overnight. So flights out of the rest of the US leave early, 5-7am, and flights back get back late at night. If you use non-US airlines, especially Avianca, there is a short jaunt to San Salvador or Panama, and then on to your US destination, with lots more flight options and time flexibility. - May 2018
Virginia. Traveling out of Tegucigalpa is pretty horrible. Cost of flights is obscene and you will have to connect through El Sal, Panama, Miami, ATL or Houston. Flying back to DCA or IAD is $700 round trip at a minimum. If you are flying on an American airline, you will be flying out after 12 noon, so depending on your final destination, you will be arriving very late at night or the next day. If you choose to fly a Latin American airline, there are flights out earlier in the morning, but you will have to connect through El Sal or Panama City. - May 2018
D.C. area. Flights to Honduras leave early in the morning from the east coast, connecting in Miami, Atlanta, or Houston, and arriving in Tegucigalpa around noon. Flights from Honduras to the U.S. leave early afternoon and get to DC/NYC late at night - so you basically lose a day when flying back to the States. Flights are expensive and sparse. Flying anywhere in Latin America usually requires a stop in San Salvador or Panama City. There are occasional deals on flights to Lima and Bogota, but generally it's super expensive to fly out of Tegucigalpa, even for short flights - Mexico City ($700), Guatemala ($400), Costa Rica ($300) etc. Even flying to the Honduran island of Roatan can get pricy - $200 roundtrip for a 45 minute flight. - Apr 2018
Washington, DC. Connections in Atlanta, Miami, or Houston - Jun 2016
Washington State. - Aug 2015
Chicago, ~7 hours with connections. - Jul 2015
USA. Flights are frequent but can be very expensive. Two hours to Miami. - Oct 2014
Miami is about 3 hours as is Houston. - Sep 2014
Home base is NYC but we flew from ATL, easy short flight less than 4 hours. - Aug 2014
About 3 hours from Houston. - Jun 2014
U.S.A. About 3 hours to MIA or IAH. - Mar 2014
Miami or Houston, 2 1/2 to 3 hours? - Oct 2013
Miami. 2 1/2 hours? - Jun 2013
3+ hours to Houston, Atlanta, Miami (and that is pretty much it, not many places you can go from Teguc) - Jun 2013
7 hours to DC via Miami or Houston. - Apr 2013
Miami is about 2 1/2 hours away or you can fly into Houston. - Jan 2012
2 1/2 hours to Miami. - Nov 2009
