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title: "POM — Port Moresby Jacksons Airport, Port Moresby · Orbit"
description: "Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM/AYPY) serves Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 9 km from Port Moresby. Map, website and distances to 1 destination."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/pom
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Port Moresby · Papua New Guinea · Oceania

# POM — Port Moresby Jacksons

Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport serves Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 9 km from the city centre, and sits at 9.4°S, 147.2°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
POM
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
AYPY
used by air traffic control

**Routes here**
1
in the catalogue

**From the equator**
1,050 km
8,957 km from the South pole

## History & name

Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport lies 9 km from Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. It has two runways, the longest 2,750 m, and sits at an elevation of 146 ft.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksons%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1088438)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport

**Serves**
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

**City centre**
9 km from Port Moresby

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 2,750 m

**Elevation**
146 ft (45 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-9.44340,147.22000)

## Where it sits

9.4°S, 147.2°E puts POM in the southern hemisphere, 1,050 km from the equator and 8,957 km from the South pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **555th** most northerly, which makes it the 107th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 9.4°N, 32.8°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Pinto Martins (FOR) in Brazil, still 1,602 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Cairns** (CNS), 842 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from POM

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-pom) | SYD | 2,754 km | 3h 55m    |

[Distance from POM to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=POM&to=SYD) [Map a trip from POM →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=POM-SYD)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure POM to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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