João Paulo II Airport
Ponta Delgada, Portugal — 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 PDL to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Ponta Delgada.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon, Portugal | LIS | 1,449 km | 2h 13m |
| Porto, Portugal | OPO | 1,509 km | 2h 18m |
| Casablanca, Morocco | CMN | 1,706 km | 2h 32m |
| Málaga, Spain | AGP | 1,877 km | 2h 45m |
| Madrid, Spain | MAD | 1,928 km | 2h 49m |
| Dublin, Ireland | DUB | 2,293 km | 3h 16m |
| Barcelona, Spain | BCN | 2,405 km | 3h 24m |
| Palma de Mallorca, Spain | PMI | 2,467 km | 3h 29m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 2,493 km | 3h 31m |
| London, United Kingdom | LGW | 2,494 km | 3h 31m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about PDL
What is the airport code for Ponta Delgada?
João Paulo II Airport uses the IATA code PDL and the ICAO code LPPD. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is João Paulo II Airport?
It sits at 37.7412° N, 25.6979° W, serving Ponta Delgada in Portugal, at an elevation of 259 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
