Wattay International Airport
Vientiane, Laos — 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 VTE to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Vientiane.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanoi (Soc Son), Vietnam | HAN | 495 km | 1h 02m |
| Bangkok, Thailand | DMK | 499 km | 1h 02m |
| Bangkok, Thailand | BKK | 517 km | 1h 04m |
| Yangon, Myanmar | RGN | 693 km | 1h 17m |
| Kunming, China | KMG | 793 km | 1h 24m |
| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | SGN | 910 km | 1h 33m |
| Phuket, Thailand | HKT | 1,190 km | 1h 54m |
| Guangzhou (Huadu), China | CAN | 1,267 km | 2h 00m |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong | HKG | 1,278 km | 2h 00m |
| Shenzhen, China | SZX | 1,280 km | 2h 01m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about VTE
What is the airport code for Vientiane?
Wattay International Airport uses the IATA code VTE and the ICAO code VLVT. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Wattay International Airport?
It sits at 17.9851° N, 102.5667° E, serving Vientiane in Laos, at an elevation of 564 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
