Hay River / Merlyn Carter Airport
Hay River, 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 YHY to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Hay River.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 1,376 km | 2h 08m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 1,547 km | 2h 20m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 2,245 km | 3h 12m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 2,309 km | 3h 17m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 2,455 km | 3h 28m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 2,623 km | 3h 41m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 2,753 km | 3h 50m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 2,810 km | 3h 55m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 2,835 km | 3h 57m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 2,997 km | 4h 09m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about YHY
What is the airport code for Hay River?
Hay River / Merlyn Carter Airport uses the IATA code YHY and the ICAO code CYHY. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Hay River / Merlyn Carter Airport?
It sits at 60.8397° N, 115.7830° W, serving Hay River in Canada, at an elevation of 541 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
