M'Vengue El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba International Airport
Franceville, Gabon — 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 MVB to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Franceville.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 1,369 km | 2h 07m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 1,449 km | 2h 13m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 1,713 km | 2h 33m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 2,611 km | 3h 40m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 3,049 km | 4h 12m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 3,150 km | 4h 20m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 3,628 km | 4h 56m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 3,634 km | 4h 56m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 3,813 km | 5h 09m |
| Cairo, Egypt | CAI | 4,013 km | 5h 24m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MVB
What is the airport code for Franceville?
M'Vengue El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba International Airport uses the IATA code MVB and the ICAO code FOON. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is M'Vengue El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba International Airport?
It sits at 1.6562° S, 13.4380° E, serving Franceville in Gabon, at an elevation of 1,450 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
