Lefkoniko Airport / Geçitkale Air Base
Lefkoniko (Geçitkale), Cyprus — 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 GEC to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Lefkoniko (Geçitkale).
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beirut, Lebanon | BEY | 226 km | 42m |
| Antalya, Turkey | AYT | 321 km | 49m |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | TLV | 374 km | 53m |
| Amman, Jordan | AMM | 444 km | 58m |
| Cairo, Egypt | CAI | 610 km | 1h 11m |
| Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey | SAW | 738 km | 1h 20m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 800 km | 1h 25m |
| Spata-Artemida, Greece | ATH | 922 km | 1h 34m |
| Tbilisi, Georgia | TBS | 1,210 km | 1h 55m |
| Sofia, Bulgaria | SOF | 1,215 km | 1h 56m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about GEC
What is the airport code for Lefkoniko (Geçitkale)?
Lefkoniko Airport / Geçitkale Air Base uses the IATA code GEC and the ICAO code LCGK. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Lefkoniko Airport / Geçitkale Air Base?
It sits at 35.2359° N, 33.7201° E, serving Lefkoniko (Geçitkale) in Cyprus, at an elevation of 146 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
