Nonstop flight route between Albina, Suriname and Manston, Kent, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Albina Airstrip (ABN), Albina, Suriname and Manston Airport (MSE), Manston, Kent, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,467 miles (or 7,188 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 Albina Airstrip and Manston 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 Albina Airstrip and Manston Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Albina Airstrip (ABN):

• The closest airport to Albina Airstrip (ABN) is Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport (PBM), which is located 78 miles (126 kilometers) W of ABN.
• Albina Airstrip (ABN) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Albina Airstrip (ABN) is Namrole Airport (NRE), which is nearly antipodal to Albina Airstrip (meaning Albina Airstrip is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Namrole Airport), and is located 12,311 miles (19,812 kilometers) away in Buru, Indonesia.

Facts about Manston Airport (MSE):

• Manston Airport (MSE) currently has only 1 runway.
• Iran Air used Manston as a fuel stop for flight 710 from Heathrow to Tehran due to fuel disputes in London, until 1 December 2011.
• In the winter of 1915–1916, early aircraft began to use the open farmlands at Manston as a site for emergency landings.
• The closest airport to Manston Airport (MSE) is Lympne Airport (LYM), which is located 23 miles (37 kilometers) SW of MSE.
• The airfield today comprises 700 acres.
• After an absence of regular charter services, Aspro Holidays operated a series of summer charter services during the 1992–93 summer season with its in-house airline Inter European Airways to Palma and added a service to Heraklion, which was often operated using their larger Boeing 757 airliner.
• Because of Manston Airport's relatively low elevation of 178 feet, planes can take off or land at Manston 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.
• Manston Airport handled 8,595 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Manston Airport (MSE) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,906 miles (19,162 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.