Nonstop flight route between Wells, Nevada, United States and Santiago, Dominican Republic:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Wells Municipal Airport (LWL), Wells, Nevada, United States and Cibao International Airport (STI), Santiago, Dominican Republic would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,997 miles (or 4,823 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 Wells Municipal Airport and Cibao 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 Wells Municipal Airport and Cibao International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Wells Municipal Airport (LWL):

• The closest airport to Wells Municipal Airport (LWL) is Elko Regional Airport (EKO), which is located 50 miles (80 kilometers) WSW of LWL.
• Wells Municipal Airport (LWL) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Wells Municipal Airport (LWL) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,958 miles (17,634 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• In addition to being known as "Wells Municipal Airport", another name for LWL is "Harriet Field".
• Because of Wells Municipal Airport's high elevation of 5,769 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at LWL. Combined with a high temperature, this could make LWL a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.

Facts about Cibao International Airport (STI):

• In 2003 Aeromar Líneas Aéreas Dominicanas stopped their flights into Santiago after the airline stopped operations.
• The furthest airport from Cibao International Airport (STI) is RAAF Learmonth (LEA), which is nearly antipodal to Cibao International Airport (meaning Cibao International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from RAAF Learmonth), and is located 12,076 miles (19,435 kilometers) away in Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia.
• Cibao International Airport's taxiways are composed by two exits E-1 and E-2.
• The airport was inaugurated on March 18, 2002 with two direct flights to San Juan operated by American Eagle.
• In 2005 the airport received an Antonov AN-124 of Volga-Dnepr, for the first time, from Spain for military activity along the border with Haiti.
• Cibao International Airport (STI) currently has only 1 runway.
• In May 2002 Aeromar Líneas Aéreas Dominicanas made the first direct flight from Santiago to JFK Airport in New York City.
• Because of Cibao International Airport's relatively low elevation of 565 feet, planes can take off or land at Cibao 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.
• In 2010 the airport recovered passengers movement from last year, handling more than 900 thousand.
• Cibao International Airport handled 1,092,229 passengers last year.
• JetBlue Airways, as the current largest operator, has seven or eight daily flights to New York-JFK and a daily flight to Boston with an 87% occupation in their flights, all of them operated with their Airbus A320 fleet.
• Air Turks and Caicos, flag carrier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, designates Santiago as their major international focus city, operating more than ten flights a week, in high season, to Providenciales and Grand Turk.
• In addition to being known as "Cibao International Airport", another name for STI is "Aeropuerto Internacional del Cibao".
• The closest airport to Cibao International Airport (STI) is Gregorio Luperón International Airport (POP), which is located 24 miles (39 kilometers) N of STI.