Balmaceda Airport
Balmaceda, Chile — 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 BBA to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Balmaceda.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 1,395 km | 2h 09m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 1,658 km | 2h 29m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 3,372 km | 4h 37m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 3,626 km | 4h 55m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 3,804 km | 5h 09m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 5,634 km | 7h 25m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 6,162 km | 8h 05m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 7,397 km | 9h 36m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 7,601 km | 9h 52m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 7,773 km | 10h 05m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BBA
What is the airport code for Balmaceda?
Balmaceda Airport uses the IATA code BBA and the ICAO code SCBA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Balmaceda Airport?
It sits at 45.9160° S, 71.6895° W, serving Balmaceda in Chile, at an elevation of 1,722 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
