Bender Qassim International Airport
Bosaso, Somalia — 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 BSA to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Bosaso.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 1,160 km | 1h 52m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 1,543 km | 2h 20m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 1,571 km | 2h 22m |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AUH | 1,575 km | 2h 23m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 1,578 km | 2h 23m |
| Manama, Bahrain | BAH | 1,674 km | 2h 30m |
| Muscat/Seeb, Oman | MCT | 1,678 km | 2h 30m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 1,687 km | 2h 31m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 1,909 km | 2h 47m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 1,945 km | 2h 50m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BSA
What is the airport code for Bosaso?
Bender Qassim International Airport uses the IATA code BSA and the ICAO code HCMF. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Bender Qassim International Airport?
It sits at 11.2752° N, 49.1392° E, serving Bosaso in Somalia, at an elevation of 3 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
