PTY · MPTO
Tocumen International Airport
Tocumen, Panama — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
IATAPTYMPTO
Latitude9.0714degrees
Longitude-79.3835degrees
Elevation135feet
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 PTY
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Panama
Questions about PTY
What is the airport code for Tocumen?
Tocumen International Airport uses the IATA code PTY and the ICAO code MPTO. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Tocumen International Airport?
It sits at 9.0714° N, 79.3835° W, serving Tocumen in Panama, at an elevation of 135 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
