President Carlos Ibáñez International Airport
Punta Arenas, Chile — 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 PUQ to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Punta Arenas.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 2,180 km | 3h 08m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 2,242 km | 3h 12m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 3,877 km | 5h 14m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 4,087 km | 5h 30m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 4,591 km | 6h 07m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 6,424 km | 8h 24m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 6,950 km | 9h 03m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 7,027 km | 9h 09m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 7,702 km | 9h 59m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 7,732 km | 10h 01m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about PUQ
What is the airport code for Punta Arenas?
President Carlos Ibáñez International Airport uses the IATA code PUQ and the ICAO code SCCI. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is President Carlos Ibáñez International Airport?
It sits at 53.0026° S, 70.8546° W, serving Punta Arenas in Chile, at an elevation of 139 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
