El Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport
El Calafate, Argentina — 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 FTE to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from El Calafate.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 1,881 km | 2h 45m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 2,038 km | 2h 57m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 3,715 km | 5h 02m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 3,945 km | 5h 19m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 4,279 km | 5h 44m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 6,117 km | 8h 01m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 6,638 km | 8h 40m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 7,220 km | 9h 23m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 7,862 km | 10h 11m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 7,907 km | 10h 15m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about FTE
What is the airport code for El Calafate?
El Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport uses the IATA code FTE and the ICAO code SAWC. 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 Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport?
It sits at 50.2803° S, 72.0534° W, serving El Calafate in Argentina, at an elevation of 669 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
