Rodríguez Ballón International Airport
Arequipa, Peru — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from AQP to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Arequipa.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 767 km | 1h 22m |
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 1,898 km | 2h 47m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 2,357 km | 3h 21m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 2,430 km | 3h 26m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 2,736 km | 3h 49m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 2,954 km | 4h 05m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 3,047 km | 4h 12m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 4,479 km | 5h 59m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 4,779 km | 6h 21m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 4,807 km | 6h 23m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about AQP
What is the airport code for Arequipa?
Rodríguez Ballón International Airport uses the IATA code AQP and the ICAO code SPQU. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Rodríguez Ballón International Airport?
It sits at 16.3408° S, 71.5695° W, serving Arequipa in Peru, at an elevation of 8,405 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
