Nonstop flight route between Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom and London, England, United Kingdom:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Milton Keynes Airport (KYN), Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom and Gatwick Airport (LGW), London, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 66 miles (or 107 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 relatively short distance between Milton Keynes Airport and Gatwick Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | KYN / |
Airport Name: | Milton Keynes Airport |
Location: | Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom |
GPS Coordinates: | 52°2'23"N by 0°45'36"W |
Elevation: | 0 feet (0 meters) |
View all routes: | Routes from KYN |
More Information: | KYN Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | LGW / EGKK |
Airport Name: | Gatwick Airport |
Location: | London, England, United Kingdom |
GPS Coordinates: | 51°8'53"N by 0°11'25"W |
Area Served: | London, United Kingdom |
Operator/Owner: | Global Infrastructure Partners |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 203 feet (62 meters) |
# of Runways: | 2 |
View all routes: | Routes from LGW |
More Information: | LGW Maps & Info |
Facts about Milton Keynes Airport (KYN):
- Milton Keynes Development Corporation planned the major road layout according to street hierarchy principles, using a grid pattern of approximately 1 km intervals, rather than on the more conventional radial pattern found in older settlements.
- The closest airport to Milton Keynes Airport (KYN) is Sywell Aerodrome (ORM), which is located only 18 miles (30 kilometers) N of KYN.
- Bletchley Park, the site of World War II British codebreaking and Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, is within the town boundaries.
- In January 2004, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced the Government's plan to double the population of Milton Keynes by 2026.
- MK also has a literature scene, with groups like Speakeasy meeting regularly and hosting performance events, and MK's only poetry magazine, Monkey Kettle coming out twice a year.
- Because of Milton Keynes Airport's relatively low elevation of 0 feet, planes can take off or land at Milton Keynes 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.
- In the 1960s, the British government decided that a further generation of new towns in the south-east of England was needed to relieve housing congestion in London.
- The furthest airport from Milton Keynes Airport (KYN) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,849 miles (19,069 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
Facts about Gatwick Airport (LGW):
- The first scheduled flight departed from the Beehive terminal on 17 May 1936, bound for Paris.
- The closest airport to Gatwick Airport (LGW) is Redhill Aerodrome (KRH), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) NNE of LGW.
- Gatwick Airport (LGW) has 2 runways.
- Because of Gatwick Airport's relatively low elevation of 203 feet, planes can take off or land at Gatwick 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.
- On 9 April 1965, a BUA One-Eleven operated the type's first commercial service from Gatwick to Genoa.
- Gatwick Airport handled 35,444,206 passengers last year.
- Although the airport was officially decommissioned in 1946, the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation continued operating it as a civil airfield.
- Pope John Paul II arrived at the airport on 28 May 1982 on an Alitalia Boeing 727-200 Advanced, beginning the first papal visit to the United Kingdom.
- On 1 May 1963, non-scheduled operators began implementing the Ministry of Aviation's instruction to transfer all regular charter flights from Heathrow to Gatwick, restricting the former's use for non-scheduled operations to "occasional" charter flights.
- The furthest airport from Gatwick Airport (LGW) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,901 miles (19,152 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.