Northwest Alabama Regional Airport
Muscle Shoals, 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 MSL to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Muscle Shoals.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 175 km | 38m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 318 km | 49m |
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 610 km | 1h 11m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 783 km | 1h 24m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 805 km | 1h 25m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 894 km | 1h 32m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 894 km | 1h 32m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 898 km | 1h 32m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 909 km | 1h 33m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 921 km | 1h 34m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MSL
What is the airport code for Muscle Shoals?
Northwest Alabama Regional Airport uses the IATA code MSL and the ICAO code KMSL. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Northwest Alabama Regional Airport?
It sits at 34.7451° N, 87.6130° W, serving Muscle Shoals in United States, at an elevation of 551 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
