Whitegrass Airport
Tanna Island, Vanuatu — 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 TAH to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Tanna Island.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 886 km | 1h 31m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 1,862 km | 2h 44m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 1,867 km | 2h 44m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 2,026 km | 2h 56m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 2,403 km | 3h 24m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 2,489 km | 3h 31m |
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 2,495 km | 3h 31m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 2,690 km | 3h 46m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 2,843 km | 3h 57m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 3,109 km | 4h 17m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about TAH
What is the airport code for Tanna Island?
Whitegrass Airport uses the IATA code TAH and the ICAO code NVVW. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Whitegrass Airport?
It sits at 19.4551° S, 169.2240° E, serving Tanna Island in Vanuatu, at an elevation of 19 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
