La Fortuna Arenal Airport
La Fortuna, Costa Rica — 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 FON to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from La Fortuna.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 590 km | 1h 09m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 1,201 km | 1h 55m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 1,316 km | 2h 03m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 1,763 km | 2h 37m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 1,796 km | 2h 39m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 1,847 km | 2h 43m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 1,958 km | 2h 51m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 2,026 km | 2h 56m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 2,440 km | 3h 27m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 2,576 km | 3h 37m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about FON
What is the airport code for La Fortuna?
La Fortuna Arenal Airport uses the IATA code FON and the ICAO code MRAN. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is La Fortuna Arenal Airport?
It sits at 10.4693° N, 84.5791° W, serving La Fortuna in Costa Rica, at an elevation of 342 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
