Nonstop flight route between Lucknow, India and Belo Horizonte, Brazil:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (LKO), Lucknow, India and Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (PLU), Belo Horizonte, Brazil would travel a Great Circle distance of 8,930 miles (or 14,371 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 Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport and Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade 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 Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport and Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (LKO):

• Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (LKO) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (LKO) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is located 11,802 miles (18,993 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.
• Because of Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport's relatively low elevation of 404 feet, planes can take off or land at Chaudhary Charan Singh 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 Airport Authority of India is planning to expand the runway of the airport so that large aircraft, like the Boeing 777, can land there and there is also a plan for the expansion of the Terminal 1 of the airport with an aerobrige so that more passengers can fly from there.
• On 17 July 2008, Government of India officially renamed the airport Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport.
• The closest airport to Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (LKO) is Kanpur Airport कानपुर हवाई अड्डा کان پور ہوائی اڈا (KNU), which is located 38 miles (62 kilometers) SW of LKO.
• The airport is connected to Lucknow and Kanpur by roads.

Facts about Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (PLU):

• The closest airport to Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (PLU) is Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport (CNF), which is located only 16 miles (25 kilometers) N of PLU.
• In addition to being known as "Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport", another name for PLU is "Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade".
• Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport handled 989,599 passengers last year.
• Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (PLU) currently has only 1 runway.
• In 1943 the runway was extended to 1,500m x 45m, in 1953 to 1,700m, and finally in 1961 to 2,505m.
• Since 1973 the airport has been operated by Infraero.
• Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport is an airport serving Belo Horizonte, Brazil, located in the neighborhood of Pampulha.
• The furthest airport from Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (PLU) is Central Field (Iwo Jima)Motoyama No. 2Airfield No. 2 (IWO), which is located 11,958 miles (19,244 kilometers) away in Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Japan.
• With the great increase of traffic at Pampulha Airport, the facility became too small and unable to handle all operations.