Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea — 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 POM to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Port Moresby.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 842 km | 1h 28m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 2,089 km | 3h 01m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 2,183 km | 3h 08m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 2,754 km | 3h 50m |
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 2,970 km | 4h 07m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 3,148 km | 4h 20m |
| Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines | CEB | 3,382 km | 4h 37m |
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 3,389 km | 4h 38m |
| Kuta, Badung, Indonesia | DPS | 3,519 km | 4h 47m |
| Manila (Pasay), Philippines | MNL | 3,929 km | 5h 18m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about POM
What is the airport code for Port Moresby?
Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport uses the IATA code POM and the ICAO code AYPY. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport?
It sits at 9.4434° S, 147.2200° E, serving Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, at an elevation of 146 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
