Van Ferit Melen Airport
Van, Turkey — 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 VAN to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Van.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tbilisi, Georgia | TBS | 382 km | 54m |
| Baku, Azerbaijan | GYD | 618 km | 1h 11m |
| Beirut, Lebanon | BEY | 873 km | 1h 30m |
| Amman, Jordan | AMM | 1,003 km | 1h 40m |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | TLV | 1,050 km | 1h 43m |
| Kuwait City, Kuwait | KWI | 1,113 km | 1h 48m |
| Antalya, Turkey | AYT | 1,116 km | 1h 48m |
| Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey | SAW | 1,229 km | 1h 57m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 1,283 km | 2h 01m |
| Cairo, Egypt | CAI | 1,435 km | 2h 12m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about VAN
What is the airport code for Van?
Van Ferit Melen Airport uses the IATA code VAN and the ICAO code LTCI. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Van Ferit Melen Airport?
It sits at 38.4682° N, 43.3323° E, serving Van in Turkey, at an elevation of 5,480 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
