Purdue University Airport
West Lafayette, United States — 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 LAF to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from West Lafayette.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 167 km | 38m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 192 km | 40m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 360 km | 52m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 477 km | 1h 01m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 704 km | 1h 18m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 714 km | 1h 18m |
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 782 km | 1h 23m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 786 km | 1h 24m |
| Dulles, United States | IAD | 827 km | 1h 27m |
| Washington, United States | DCA | 865 km | 1h 30m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about LAF
What is the airport code for West Lafayette?
Purdue University Airport uses the IATA code LAF and the ICAO code KLAF. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Purdue University Airport?
It sits at 40.4129° N, 86.9394° W, serving West Lafayette in United States, at an elevation of 606 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
