Fort Nelson Airport
Fort Nelson, Canada — 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 YYE to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Fort Nelson.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 1,073 km | 1h 45m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 1,266 km | 2h 00m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 2,140 km | 3h 05m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 2,359 km | 3h 21m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 2,460 km | 3h 29m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 2,511 km | 3h 32m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 2,587 km | 3h 38m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 2,785 km | 3h 53m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 2,930 km | 4h 04m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 2,932 km | 4h 04m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about YYE
What is the airport code for Fort Nelson?
Fort Nelson Airport uses the IATA code YYE and the ICAO code CYYE. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Fort Nelson Airport?
It sits at 58.8364° N, 122.5970° W, serving Fort Nelson in Canada, at an elevation of 1,253 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
