CNS · YBCS
Cairns International Airport
Cairns, Australia — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
IATACNSYBCS
Latitude-16.8789degrees
Longitude145.7495degrees
Elevation10feet
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 CNS
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about CNS
What is the airport code for Cairns?
Cairns International Airport uses the IATA code CNS and the ICAO code YBCS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Cairns International Airport?
It sits at 16.8789° S, 145.7495° E, serving Cairns in Australia, at an elevation of 10 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
