Central Nebraska Regional Airport
Grand Island, United States — 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 GRI to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Grand Island.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver, United States | DEN | 553 km | 1h 06m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 601 km | 1h 10m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 874 km | 1h 30m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 885 km | 1h 31m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 904 km | 1h 33m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 1,145 km | 1h 51m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 1,148 km | 1h 51m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 1,199 km | 1h 55m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 1,250 km | 1h 58m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 1,250 km | 1h 58m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about GRI
What is the airport code for Grand Island?
Central Nebraska Regional Airport uses the IATA code GRI and the ICAO code KGRI. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Central Nebraska Regional Airport?
It sits at 40.9675° N, 98.3096° W, serving Grand Island in United States, at an elevation of 1,847 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
