Mercedita International Airport
Ponce, Puerto Rico — 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 PSE to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Ponce.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami, United States | MIA | 1,658 km | 2h 29m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 1,661 km | 2h 29m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 1,694 km | 2h 31m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 1,704 km | 2h 32m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 1,898 km | 2h 47m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 1,972 km | 2h 52m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 2,154 km | 3h 06m |
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 2,382 km | 3h 23m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 2,486 km | 3h 30m |
| Washington, United States | DCA | 2,530 km | 3h 34m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Puerto Rico
Questions about PSE
What is the airport code for Ponce?
Mercedita International Airport uses the IATA code PSE and the ICAO code TJPS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Mercedita International Airport?
It sits at 18.0083° N, 66.5630° W, serving Ponce in Puerto Rico, at an elevation of 29 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
