Mara Serena Lodge Airstrip
Serena, Kenya — 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 MRE to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Serena.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 214 km | 41m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 1,229 km | 1h 57m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 2,306 km | 3h 17m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 2,606 km | 3h 39m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 2,844 km | 3h 57m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 3,164 km | 4h 21m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 3,191 km | 4h 23m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,246 km | 4h 27m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 3,285 km | 4h 30m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 3,463 km | 4h 43m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MRE
What is the airport code for Serena?
Mara Serena Lodge Airstrip uses the IATA code MRE and the ICAO code HKMS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Mara Serena Lodge Airstrip?
It sits at 1.4046° S, 35.0083° E, serving Serena in Kenya, at an elevation of 5,200 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
