Roman Tmetuchl International Airport
Babelthuap Island, Palau — 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 ROR to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Babelthuap Island.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines | CEB | 1,206 km | 1h 55m |
| Manila (Pasay), Philippines | MNL | 1,675 km | 2h 30m |
| Taoyuan, Taiwan | TPE | 2,424 km | 3h 26m |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong | HKG | 2,764 km | 3h 51m |
| Shenzhen, China | SZX | 2,794 km | 3h 53m |
| Kuta, Badung, Indonesia | DPS | 2,797 km | 3h 54m |
| Guangzhou (Huadu), China | CAN | 2,884 km | 4h 00m |
| Hangzhou, China | HGH | 2,938 km | 4h 04m |
| Fukuoka, Japan | FUK | 2,946 km | 4h 05m |
| Shanghai (Pudong), China | PVG | 2,957 km | 4h 06m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about ROR
What is the airport code for Babelthuap Island?
Roman Tmetuchl International Airport uses the IATA code ROR and the ICAO code PTRO. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Roman Tmetuchl International Airport?
It sits at 7.3670° N, 134.5441° E, serving Babelthuap Island in Palau, at an elevation of 176 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
