Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal
Bloomington/Normal, United States — 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 BMI to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Bloomington/Normal.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 175 km | 38m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 187 km | 39m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 503 km | 1h 03m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 522 km | 1h 04m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 603 km | 1h 10m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 844 km | 1h 28m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 858 km | 1h 29m |
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 912 km | 1h 33m |
| Dulles, United States | IAD | 994 km | 1h 39m |
| Washington, United States | DCA | 1,032 km | 1h 42m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BMI
What is the airport code for Bloomington/Normal?
Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal uses the IATA code BMI and the ICAO code KBMI. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal?
It sits at 40.4771° N, 88.9159° W, serving Bloomington/Normal in United States, at an elevation of 871 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
