Christmas Island International Airport
Flying Fish Cove, CX — 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 XCH to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Flying Fish Cove.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jakarta, Indonesia | CGK | 492 km | 1h 02m |
| Kuta, Badung, Indonesia | DPS | 1,056 km | 1h 44m |
| Singapore, Singapore | SIN | 1,326 km | 2h 04m |
| Sepang, Malaysia | KUL | 1,532 km | 2h 19m |
| Phuket, Thailand | HKT | 2,220 km | 3h 11m |
| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | SGN | 2,367 km | 3h 22m |
| Perth, Australia | PER | 2,613 km | 3h 40m |
| Bangkok, Thailand | BKK | 2,738 km | 3h 49m |
| Bangkok, Thailand | DMK | 2,766 km | 3h 51m |
| Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines | CEB | 3,069 km | 4h 14m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about XCH
What is the airport code for Flying Fish Cove?
Christmas Island International Airport uses the IATA code XCH and the ICAO code YPXM. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Christmas Island International Airport?
It sits at 10.4504° S, 105.6911° E, serving Flying Fish Cove in CX, at an elevation of 916 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
