Senador Nilo Coelho Airport
Petrolina, Brazil — 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 PNZ to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Petrolina.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 1,522 km | 2h 19m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 1,686 km | 2h 31m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 3,369 km | 4h 36m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 4,001 km | 5h 23m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 4,036 km | 5h 26m |
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 4,085 km | 5h 30m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 4,761 km | 6h 20m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,776 km | 6h 21m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 5,176 km | 6h 51m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 5,676 km | 7h 28m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about PNZ
What is the airport code for Petrolina?
Senador Nilo Coelho Airport uses the IATA code PNZ and the ICAO code SBPL. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Senador Nilo Coelho Airport?
It sits at 9.3624° S, 40.5691° W, serving Petrolina in Brazil, at an elevation of 1,263 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
