Chimbu Airport
Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea — 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 CMU to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Kundiawa.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 1,210 km | 1h 55m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 2,526 km | 3h 34m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 2,621 km | 3h 41m |
| Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines | CEB | 2,950 km | 4h 05m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 3,170 km | 4h 21m |
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 3,283 km | 4h 30m |
| Kuta, Badung, Indonesia | DPS | 3,300 km | 4h 31m |
| Manila (Pasay), Philippines | MNL | 3,491 km | 4h 45m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 3,519 km | 4h 47m |
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 3,757 km | 5h 05m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about CMU
What is the airport code for Kundiawa?
Chimbu Airport uses the IATA code CMU and the ICAO code AYCH. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Chimbu Airport?
It sits at 6.0243° S, 144.9710° E, serving Kundiawa in Papua New Guinea, at an elevation of 4,974 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
