Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois
Marion, 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 MWA to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Marion.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 276 km | 46m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 461 km | 1h 00m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 480 km | 1h 01m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 617 km | 1h 11m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 692 km | 1h 17m |
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 775 km | 1h 23m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 867 km | 1h 30m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 905 km | 1h 33m |
| Dulles, United States | IAD | 1,016 km | 1h 41m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 1,028 km | 1h 42m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MWA
What is the airport code for Marion?
Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois uses the IATA code MWA and the ICAO code KMWA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois?
It sits at 37.7512° N, 89.0166° W, serving Marion in United States, at an elevation of 472 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
