Fa'a'ā International Airport
Papeete, French Polynesia — 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 PPT to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Papeete.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 3,487 km | 4h 45m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 4,094 km | 5h 30m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 4,293 km | 5h 45m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 4,569 km | 6h 06m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 4,914 km | 6h 31m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 5,895 km | 7h 45m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 5,937 km | 7h 48m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 6,119 km | 8h 01m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 6,569 km | 8h 35m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 6,611 km | 8h 38m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about PPT
What is the airport code for Papeete?
Fa'a'ā International Airport uses the IATA code PPT and the ICAO code NTAA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Fa'a'ā International Airport?
It sits at 17.5535° S, 149.6069° W, serving Papeete in French Polynesia, at an elevation of 5 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
