Lieutenant Colonel Luis A. Mantilla International Airport
Tulcán, Ecuador — 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 TUA to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Tulcán.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 586 km | 1h 09m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 937 km | 1h 35m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 1,428 km | 2h 12m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 2,460 km | 3h 29m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 2,792 km | 3h 53m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 2,821 km | 3h 55m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 3,064 km | 4h 14m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 3,095 km | 4h 16m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 3,115 km | 4h 17m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 3,717 km | 5h 02m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about TUA
What is the airport code for Tulcán?
Lieutenant Colonel Luis A. Mantilla International Airport uses the IATA code TUA and the ICAO code SETU. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Lieutenant Colonel Luis A. Mantilla International Airport?
It sits at 0.8095° N, 77.7081° W, serving Tulcán in Ecuador, at an elevation of 9,649 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
