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title: "PPT — Fa'a'ā Airport, Papeete · Orbit"
description: "Fa'a'ā International Airport (PPT/NTAA) serves Papeete, French Polynesia. Opened 1961, 1.4 million passengers in 2022, 5 km from Papeete."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/ppt
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Papeete · French Polynesia · Oceania

# PPT — Fa'a'ā

Fa'a'ā International Airport serves Papeete, French Polynesia, 5 km from the city centre, 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

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faa'a%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1049719)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-17.55350,-149.60690)

**Website**
[aeroports-voyages.fr ↗](https://www.aeroports-voyages.fr/en/airport/tahiti-island/PPT)

## 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/akl-to-ppt) | AKL | 4,094 km | 5h 35m    |

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

## 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 PPT to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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