- IATA
- PPT
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- NTAA
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1961
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 1.4M
- in 2022
History & name
Fa'a'ā International Airport opened in 1961 and takes its name from Faʻaʻā and Tahiti. It lies 5 km from Papeete, handled 1.4 million passengers in 2022 and has one runway of 3,463 m, just 5 ft above sea level.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Fa'a'ā International Airport
- Serves
- Papeete, French Polynesia
- City centre
- 5 km from Papeete
- Opened
- 1961
- Passengers
- 1.4 million in 2022
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,463 m
- Elevation
- 5 ft (2 m)
- Website
- aeroports-voyages.fr ↗
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.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland | AKL | 4,094 km | 5h 35m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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