Buka Airport
Buka Island, Papua New Guinea — 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 BUA to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Buka Island.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 1,602 km | 2h 25m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 2,448 km | 3h 28m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 2,532 km | 3h 34m |
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 2,829 km | 3h 56m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 3,192 km | 4h 23m |
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 3,678 km | 4h 59m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 3,722 km | 5h 03m |
| Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines | CEB | 3,823 km | 5h 10m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 4,064 km | 5h 28m |
| Manila (Pasay), Philippines | MNL | 4,322 km | 5h 47m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BUA
What is the airport code for Buka Island?
Buka Airport uses the IATA code BUA and the ICAO code AYBK. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Buka Airport?
It sits at 5.4223° S, 154.6727° E, serving Buka Island in Papua New Guinea, at an elevation of 11 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
