Nonstop flight route between Cowell, South Australia, Australia and Beijing, People's Republic of China:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Cowell Airport (CCW), Cowell, South Australia, Australia and Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK), Beijing, People's Republic of China would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,258 miles (or 8,461 kilometers).
A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between Cowell Airport and Beijing Capital International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.
Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Cowell Airport and Beijing Capital International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | CCW / YCWL |
Airport Name: | Cowell Airport |
Location: | Cowell, South Australia, Australia |
GPS Coordinates: | 33°40'0"S by 136°53'30"E |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 127 feet (39 meters) |
# of Runways: | 3 |
View all routes: | Routes from CCW |
More Information: | CCW Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | PEK / ZBAA |
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Location: | Beijing, People's Republic of China |
GPS Coordinates: | 40°4'47"N by 116°35'3"E |
Area Served: | Beijing |
Operator/Owner: | Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 116 feet (35 meters) |
# of Runways: | 3 |
View all routes: | Routes from PEK |
More Information: | PEK Maps & Info |
Facts about Cowell Airport (CCW):
- The closest airport to Cowell Airport (CCW) is Cleve Airport (CVC), which is located 22 miles (36 kilometers) W of CCW.
- The furthest airport from Cowell Airport (CCW) is Flores Airport (FLW), which is located 11,662 miles (18,768 kilometers) away in Flores Island, Azores, Portugal.
- Because of Cowell Airport's relatively low elevation of 127 feet, planes can take off or land at Cowell Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
- Cowell Airport (CCW) has 3 runways.
Facts about Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK):
- Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) has 3 runways.
- Terminal 3 has 243 elevators, escalators or moving walkways.
- Beijing Capital International Airport handled 83,712,355 passengers last year.
- In addition to being known as "Beijing Capital International Airport", other names for PEK include "北京首都国际机场" and "Běijīng Shǒudū Guójì Jīchǎng".
- The furthest airport from Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) is Gobernador Edgardo Castello Airport (VDM), which is nearly antipodal to Beijing Capital International Airport (meaning Beijing Capital International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Gobernador Edgardo Castello Airport), and is located 12,378 miles (19,920 kilometers) away in Viedma, Argentina.
- Terminal 2 opened on 1 November 1999, with a floor area of 336,000 m2.
- The closest airport to Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) is Beijing Nanyuan Airport (NAY), which is located 23 miles (37 kilometers) SSW of PEK.
- Construction of Terminal 3 started on 28 March 2004, and the terminal opened in two stages.
- Because of Beijing Capital International Airport's relatively low elevation of 116 feet, planes can take off or land at Beijing Capital International Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
- It provides 72 aerobridges or jetways, further complemented with remote parking bays which bring the total of gates to 150 for the terminal alone.
- On 20 July 2013, a man in a wheelchair detonated small homemade explosives which exploded on Terminal 3 in the Beijing International Airport.
- A 98.3 m monitoring tower stands at the southern end of T3, the highest building at the airport.
- A third runway of BCIA opened on 29 October 2007, to relieve congestion on the other two runways.
- Terminal 1, with 60,000 m2 of space, opened on 1 January 1980, and replaced the smaller existing terminal which was in operation since 1958.
- Terminal 3 of the BCIA is currently the second largest airport passenger terminal building of the world.