Pituffik Space Base
Pituffik, Greenland — 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 THU to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Pituffik.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reykjavík, Iceland | KEF | 2,127 km | 3h 04m |
| Oslo (Gardermoen), Norway | OSL | 3,357 km | 4h 35m |
| Edinburgh, United Kingdom | EDI | 3,409 km | 4h 39m |
| Montréal, Canada | YUL | 3,462 km | 4h 43m |
| Stockholm, Sweden | ARN | 3,581 km | 4h 52m |
| Dublin, Ireland | DUB | 3,592 km | 4h 53m |
| Helsinki (Vantaa), Finland | HEL | 3,683 km | 5h 00m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 3,689 km | 5h 00m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 3,696 km | 5h 01m |
| Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom | MAN | 3,702 km | 5h 01m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about THU
What is the airport code for Pituffik?
Pituffik Space Base uses the IATA code THU and the ICAO code BGTL. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Pituffik Space Base?
It sits at 76.5306° N, 68.7005° W, serving Pituffik in Greenland, at an elevation of 251 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
