Nonstop flight route between Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia and Medellín, Colombia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Alice Springs Airport (ASP), Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia and Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH), Medellín, Colombia would travel a Great Circle distance of 10,133 miles (or 16,308 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 Alice Springs Airport and Olaya Herrera 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 Alice Springs Airport and Olaya Herrera Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Alice Springs Airport (ASP):

• Alice Springs Airport (ASP) has 2 runways.
• During 2010–11 a total of 640,519 domestic passengers passed through Alice Springs Airport making it the 18th busiest in Australia.
• Alice Springs Airport handled 598,749 passengers last year.
• In 1958 it officially became Alice Springs Airport.
• The closest airport to Alice Springs Airport (ASP) is Cowra Airport (CWT), which is located 44 miles (71 kilometers) E of ASP.
• The facility is to be operated by Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage Ltd which chose Alice Springs because its dry, arid climate is perfect for aircraft storage and preservation.
• The furthest airport from Alice Springs Airport (ASP) is Barbuda Codrington Airport (BBQ), which is located 11,336 miles (18,243 kilometers) away in Codrington, Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda.
• Tragedy struck the airport again on 5 January 1977, when a former employee of Connair, Colin Richard Forman, flew a stolen aircraft into the Connair offices located at the airport, killing himself and three of the airline's employees.

Facts about Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH):

• It has a very large LCD screens provided by Scala to give information of flights, and times of departure and arrival of aircraft, these screens were also designed to receive hospital care for those who wait, with music and animations in Macromedia.
• Because of Olaya Herrera Airport's high elevation of 4,940 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at EOH. Combined with a high temperature, this could make EOH a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The closest airport to Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH) is José María Córdova International Airport (MDE), which is located only 12 miles (19 kilometers) ESE of EOH.
• In the 1940s the city was growing rapidly and new aircraft of the time required better facilities.
• Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH) is Radin Inten II Airport (RIA II) (TKG), which is nearly antipodal to Olaya Herrera Airport (meaning Olaya Herrera Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Radin Inten II Airport (RIA II)), and is located 12,351 miles (19,877 kilometers) away in Bandar Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia.
• In addition to being known as "Olaya Herrera Airport", another name for EOH is "Aeropuerto Olaya Herrera".
• The airport was with five other airports given in concession to a private operator to manage that within the proposed works include total refurbishment of the terminal, the construction of a cargo terminal, repairing the track platform, implementing new security systems are, expansion and refurbishment of waiting rooms and baggage claim belts, construction of a new control tower on the west side, construction of a terminal for business aviation that will work for domestic and international flights of this type, new shopping areas, among others.