North Platte Regional Airport Lee Bird Field
North Platte, 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 LBF to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from North Platte.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver, United States | DEN | 366 km | 52m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 736 km | 1h 20m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 949 km | 1h 36m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 970 km | 1h 38m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 1,067 km | 1h 45m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 1,079 km | 1h 46m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 1,245 km | 1h 58m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 1,315 km | 2h 03m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 1,329 km | 2h 04m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 1,336 km | 2h 05m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about LBF
What is the airport code for North Platte?
North Platte Regional Airport Lee Bird Field uses the IATA code LBF and the ICAO code KLBF. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is North Platte Regional Airport Lee Bird Field?
It sits at 41.1262° N, 100.6840° W, serving North Platte in United States, at an elevation of 2,777 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
