Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport
Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), South Africa — 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 PLZ to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth).
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 647 km | 1h 13m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 712 km | 1h 18m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 909 km | 1h 33m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,491 km | 4h 45m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 3,819 km | 5h 10m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 4,489 km | 6h 00m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 4,976 km | 6h 36m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 5,085 km | 6h 44m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 5,158 km | 6h 50m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 5,170 km | 6h 51m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about PLZ
What is the airport code for Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)?
Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport uses the IATA code PLZ and the ICAO code FAPE. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport?
It sits at 33.9897° S, 25.6174° E, serving Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) in South Africa, at an elevation of 226 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
