El Loa Airport
Calama, Chile — 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 CJC to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Calama.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 1,225 km | 1h 57m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 1,454 km | 2h 14m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 1,701 km | 2h 32m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 2,297 km | 3h 16m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 2,629 km | 3h 41m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 3,078 km | 4h 15m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 3,691 km | 5h 00m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 5,219 km | 6h 54m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 5,508 km | 7h 16m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 5,535 km | 7h 18m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about CJC
What is the airport code for Calama?
El Loa Airport uses the IATA code CJC and the ICAO code SCCF. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is El Loa Airport?
It sits at 22.4982° S, 68.9036° W, serving Calama in Chile, at an elevation of 7,543 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
