Las Cruces International Airport
Las Cruces, United States — 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 LRU to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Las Cruces.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 492 km | 1h 02m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 866 km | 1h 30m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 866 km | 1h 30m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 910 km | 1h 33m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 928 km | 1h 34m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 964 km | 1h 37m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 1,047 km | 1h 43m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 1,085 km | 1h 46m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 1,131 km | 1h 49m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 1,526 km | 2h 19m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about LRU
What is the airport code for Las Cruces?
Las Cruces International Airport uses the IATA code LRU and the ICAO code KLRU. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Las Cruces International Airport?
It sits at 32.2894° N, 106.9220° W, serving Las Cruces in United States, at an elevation of 4,456 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
