Nonstop flight route between Anchorage, Alaska, United States and Puebla, Mexico:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC), Anchorage, Alaska, United States and Hermanos Serdán International Airport (PBC), Puebla, Mexico would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,816 miles (or 6,142 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 Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and Hermanos Serdán 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 Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and Hermanos Serdán 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 Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC):

• A shuttle bus runs approximately every 15 minutes between the North and South terminals and the employee and long-term parking lots.
• The furthest airport from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) is Port Elizabeth International Airport (PLZ), which is located 10,548 miles (16,975 kilometers) away in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
• As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,599,313 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 2,282,666 enplanements in 2009, and 2,342,310 in 2010.
• In the 1990s, Alaska Airlines and Aeroflot operated service from Anchorage to several destinations in the Russian Far East, including Khabarovsk, Magadan, Petropavlovsk, Vladivostok and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
• Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport covers an area of 4,608 acres at an elevation of 151 feet above mean sea level.
• Because of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport's relatively low elevation of 152 feet, planes can take off or land at Ted Stevens Anchorage 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.
• Taxi queues are available in front of each terminal.
• The closest airport to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) is Merrill Field (MRI), which is located only 6 miles (9 kilometers) ENE of ANC.
• Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport handled 4,976,557 passengers last year.
• Anchorage was a common stopover for passengers flying to East Asia until the 1980s because Chinese and Soviet airspace were off-limits and because the first generation of jets and widebody airliners did not have the range to fly non-stop across the Pacific Ocean.
• Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) has 3 runways.

Facts about Hermanos Serdán International Airport (PBC):

• Hermanos Serdán International Airport (PBC) currently has only 1 runway.
• As of May 12, 2012, the airport has been closed several times due to volcanic ash from Popocatépetl volcano.
• In addition to being known as "Hermanos Serdán International Airport", another name for PBC is "Aeropuerto Internacional de Puebla".
• The furthest airport from Hermanos Serdán International Airport (PBC) is Cocos (Keeling) Island Airport (CCK), which is located 11,318 miles (18,214 kilometers) away in Cocos Islands, Australia.
• According to Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares, in 2012 Puebla air terminal served 264,211 passengers, whereas in 2013 it received 292,152 passengers.
• Because of Hermanos Serdán International Airport's high elevation of 7,361 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at PBC. Combined with a high temperature, this could make PBC a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The closest airport to Hermanos Serdán International Airport (PBC) is Benito Juarez International Airport (MEX), which is located 50 miles (80 kilometers) WNW of PBC.