Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit
Hoedspruit, 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 HDS to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Hoedspruit.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 345 km | 51m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 584 km | 1h 09m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 1,611 km | 2h 25m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 2,639 km | 3h 42m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,768 km | 3h 52m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,412 km | 4h 39m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 3,801 km | 5h 09m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 4,520 km | 6h 02m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,568 km | 6h 06m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,747 km | 6h 19m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about HDS
What is the airport code for Hoedspruit?
Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit uses the IATA code HDS and the ICAO code FAHS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit?
It sits at 24.3619° S, 31.0529° E, serving Hoedspruit in South Africa, at an elevation of 1,801 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
