Bram Fischer International Airport
Bloemfontein, South Africa — 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 BFN to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Bloemfontein.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 380 km | 54m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 470 km | 1h 00m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 909 km | 1h 33m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 3,287 km | 4h 30m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,300 km | 4h 31m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 4,103 km | 5h 31m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 4,440 km | 5h 56m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,667 km | 6h 13m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 4,703 km | 6h 16m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,785 km | 6h 22m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BFN
What is the airport code for Bloemfontein?
Bram Fischer International Airport uses the IATA code BFN and the ICAO code FABL. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Bram Fischer International Airport?
It sits at 29.0927° S, 26.3024° E, serving Bloemfontein in South Africa, at an elevation of 4,457 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
