Nonstop flight route between Namatanai, Papua New Guinea and Kiev, Ukraine:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Namatanai Airport (ATN), Namatanai, Papua New Guinea and Boryspil International Airport (KBP), Kiev, Ukraine would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,772 miles (or 12,508 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 Namatanai Airport and Boryspil 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 Namatanai Airport and Boryspil 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 Namatanai Airport (ATN):

• The furthest airport from Namatanai Airport (ATN) is Governador Carlos Wilson Airport (FEN), which is located 11,818 miles (19,019 kilometers) away in Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil.
• Because of Namatanai Airport's relatively low elevation of 137 feet, planes can take off or land at Namatanai 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 closest airport to Namatanai Airport (ATN) is Lihir Island Regional Airport (LNV), which is located 45 miles (72 kilometers) NNE of ATN.
• Namatanai Airport (ATN) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Boryspil International Airport (KBP):

• Toward the final decades of the Cold War, the Soviet Air Force maintained a presence at Boryspil Airport with 1 VTAP flying Ilyushin Il-76 cargo jets.
• The ground floor contains luggage storage, waiting area and check-in desks, whilst security and passport control, the main departure lounge and the terminal's boarding gates are on the second floor.
• Terminal F was opened on 21 September 2010 by President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych as a home base for Ukraine International Airlines.
• On 22 June 1959, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR ordered the establishment of regular civil air traffic to the then military airfield near Boryspil.
• A new VIP facility is under construction at the northern end of the east runway.
• The closest airport to Boryspil International Airport (KBP) is Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) (IEV), which is located only 20 miles (32 kilometers) WNW of KBP.
• Boryspil International Airport (KBP) has 2 runways.
• In 2001, a new runway was completed, and the airport carried 1.5 million passengers.
• The furthest airport from Boryspil International Airport (KBP) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,082 miles (17,835 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• By the 1980s, Boryspil had begun receiving limited international flights.
• In addition to being known as "Boryspil International Airport", another name for KBP is "Міжнародний аеропорт "Бориспіль"".
• There are plans to expand the airport further by building several new terminals.
• Because of Boryspil International Airport's relatively low elevation of 427 feet, planes can take off or land at Boryspil 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 the late 1980s, Mikheil Saakashvili, the current president of Georgia, served his conscript service in the Soviet border guard's Boryspil Separate Group that was maintaining border control in the airport.
• It is one of Eastern Europe's largest airports with over 6 million passengers travelling in 2008.