Kirkwall Airport
Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom — 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 KOI to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Kirkwall, Orkney Islands.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh, United Kingdom | EDI | 336 km | 50m |
| Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom | MAN | 625 km | 1h 12m |
| Dublin, Ireland | DUB | 649 km | 1h 14m |
| Oslo (Gardermoen), Norway | OSL | 799 km | 1h 25m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 847 km | 1h 28m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 881 km | 1h 31m |
| London, United Kingdom | LGW | 885 km | 1h 31m |
| Hamburg, Germany | HAM | 989 km | 1h 39m |
| Copenhagen, Denmark | CPH | 1,003 km | 1h 40m |
| Zaventem, Belgium | BRU | 1,011 km | 1h 41m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about KOI
What is the airport code for Kirkwall, Orkney Islands?
Kirkwall Airport uses the IATA code KOI and the ICAO code EGPA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Kirkwall Airport?
It sits at 58.9579° N, 2.9051° W, serving Kirkwall, Orkney Islands in United Kingdom, at an elevation of 50 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
