Fua'amotu International Airport
Nuku'alofa, Tonga — 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 TBU to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Nuku'alofa.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 868 km | 1h 30m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 2,005 km | 2h 55m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 2,425 km | 3h 26m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 2,724 km | 3h 48m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 3,027 km | 4h 11m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 3,249 km | 4h 27m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 3,278 km | 4h 30m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 3,585 km | 4h 52m |
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 4,128 km | 5h 33m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 4,241 km | 5h 41m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about TBU
What is the airport code for Nuku'alofa?
Fua'amotu International Airport uses the IATA code TBU and the ICAO code NFTF. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Fua'amotu International Airport?
It sits at 21.2414° S, 175.1492° W, serving Nuku'alofa in Tonga, at an elevation of 126 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
