Nonstop flight route between Gibraltar and Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Gibraltar International Airport (GIB), Gibraltar and Turkmenbashi International Airport (KRW), Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,127 miles (or 5,033 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 Gibraltar International Airport and Turkmenbashi 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 Gibraltar International Airport and Turkmenbashi 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: | GIB / LXGB |
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Location: | Gibraltar |
GPS Coordinates: | 36°9'3"N by 5°20'58"W |
Area Served: | Gibraltar |
Operator/Owner: | Ministry of Defence |
Airport Type: | Military/Public |
Elevation: | 15 feet (5 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from GIB |
More Information: | GIB Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | KRW / UTAK |
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Location: | Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan |
GPS Coordinates: | 40°3'47"N by 53°0'25"E |
Area Served: | Turkmenbashi |
Operator/Owner: | N/A |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 283 feet (86 meters) |
# of Runways: | 2 |
View all routes: | Routes from KRW |
More Information: | KRW Maps & Info |
Facts about Gibraltar International Airport (GIB):
- The furthest airport from Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) is Whangarei Airport (WRE), which is nearly antipodal to Gibraltar International Airport (meaning Gibraltar International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Whangarei Airport), and is located 12,406 miles (19,965 kilometers) away in Whangarei, New Zealand.
- The road across the runway is constraining operations at the airport, especially with the increase in operations since the Córdoba Agreement.
- Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) currently has only 1 runway.
- Gibraltar International Airport handled 383,013 passengers last year.
- On 14 August 2012, Monarch announced it would launch a new route to Birmingham, operating three times a week.
- Since then, Spain successfully excluded Gibraltar from European wide de-regulation initiatives, preventing direct links from Gibraltar to the rest of the European Union, on the grounds that no regulation that somehow recognises the sovereignty of the United Kingdom over the Gibraltar peninsula may be implemented without a previous agreement on the airport.
- In addition to being known as "Gibraltar International Airport", another name for GIB is "(North Front Airport)".
- Because of Gibraltar International Airport's relatively low elevation of 15 feet, planes can take off or land at Gibraltar 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.
- The closest airport to Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) is Ceuta Heliport (JCU), which is located only 18 miles (29 kilometers) S of GIB.
Facts about Turkmenbashi International Airport (KRW):
- In the immediate vicinity of the main body of the terminal there is a facility to receive VIP-persons.
- In addition to being known as "Turkmenbashi International Airport", another name for KRW is "Türkmenbaşy halkara aeroporty".
- Turkmenbashi International Airport (KRW) has 2 runways.
- The closest airport to Turkmenbashi International Airport (KRW) is Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD), which is located 159 miles (255 kilometers) W of KRW.
- The furthest airport from Turkmenbashi International Airport (KRW) is Totegegie Airport (GMR), which is located 11,176 miles (17,987 kilometers) away in Mangareva, Gambier Islands, French Polynesia.
- Because of Turkmenbashi International Airport's relatively low elevation of 283 feet, planes can take off or land at Turkmenbashi 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.
- At the opening of the International Airport of Turkmenbashi City it was visited by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.