Nonstop flight route between Lydd, England, United Kingdom and Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Lydd International Airport (LYX), Lydd, England, United Kingdom and Vijayawada Airport (VGA), Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,892 miles (or 7,874 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 Lydd International Airport and Vijayawada 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 Lydd International Airport and Vijayawada Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | LYX / EGMD |
Airport Name: | Lydd International Airport |
Location: | Lydd, England, United Kingdom |
GPS Coordinates: | 50°57'21"N by 0°56'21"E |
Area Served: | London, East Sussex and Kent |
Operator/Owner: | London Ashford Airport Ltd. |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 13 feet (4 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from LYX |
More Information: | LYX Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | VGA / VBOZ |
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Location: | Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India |
GPS Coordinates: | 16°31'59"N by 80°40'0"E |
Area Served: | Vijayawada |
Operator/Owner: | AAI |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 82 feet (25 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from VGA |
More Information: | VGA Maps & Info |
Facts about Lydd International Airport (LYX):
- Lydd Airport, opened in 1956, was the first airport to be built in the UK following the end of the Second World War.
- On 12 April 2014, Newmarket Holidays, which offers flights to Verona and Naples in Italy, said it would move its Kent departures from Manston to Lydd Airport.
- Lydd Air is based at the airport, offering regular flights to Le Touquet in northern France.
- In July 2011 CityJet conducted flight tests with the Avro RJ and Fokker 50 to see if the runway needs to be extended for them to begin operating flights.
- The closest airport to Lydd International Airport (LYX) is Lympne Airport (LYM), which is located only 9 miles (15 kilometers) NNE of LYX.
- Lydd International Airport (LYX) currently has only 1 runway.
- Because of Lydd International Airport's relatively low elevation of 13 feet, planes can take off or land at Lydd 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 furthest airport from Lydd International Airport (LYX) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,928 miles (19,197 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- Lydd International Airport handled 2,696 passengers last year.
Facts about Vijayawada Airport (VGA):
- The airport, which had only Kingfisher Airline operating two flights - one each to Hyderabad and Bangalore previously, now has six flights a day taking off to various destinations.
- The furthest airport from Vijayawada Airport (VGA) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is located 11,459 miles (18,441 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.
- In addition to being known as "Vijayawada Airport", other names for VGA include "Gannavaram Airport" and "VOBZ".
- The airfield served as an army base during the World War II and at that time only defense airlines were the one taking flights from here.
- Because of Vijayawada Airport's relatively low elevation of 82 feet, planes can take off or land at Vijayawada 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.
- Vijayawada Airport (VGA) currently has only 1 runway.
- The closest airport to Vijayawada Airport (VGA) is Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (HYD), which is located 156 miles (251 kilometers) WNW of VGA.
- National Carrier, Air India introduced a new service from Delhi to Vijayawada via Hyderabad from 2011,October 30.