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Papeete · French Polynesia · Oceania

PPTFa'a'ā

Fa'a'ā serves Papeete, French Polynesia, and sits at 17.6°S, 149.6°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

IATA
PPT
the code on your bag tag
ICAO
NTAA
used by air traffic control
Routes here
1
in the catalogue
From the equator
1,952 km
8,056 km from the South pole

Where it sits

17.6°S, 149.6°W puts PPT in the southern hemisphere, 1,952 km from the equator and 8,056 km from the South pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 575th most northerly, which makes it the 87th most southerly.

Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 17.6°N, 30.4°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Luxor (LXR) in Egypt, still 934 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is Rarotonga (RAR), 1,144 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

Distances from PPT

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

ToDistanceEstimated
AucklandAKL4,094 km5h 35m

What’s on this page, and what isn’t

Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.

Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

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