Nonstop flight route between Arutua, Tuamotus, French Polynesia and Pescara, Italy:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Arutua Airport (AXR), Arutua, Tuamotus, French Polynesia and Abruzzo Airport (PSR), Pescara, Italy would travel a Great Circle distance of 10,240 miles (or 16,479 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 Arutua Airport and Abruzzo 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 Arutua Airport and Abruzzo Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Arutua Airport (AXR):

• The closest airport to Arutua Airport (AXR) is Apataki Airport (APK), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) SSE of AXR.
• The furthest airport from Arutua Airport (AXR) is Khartoum International Airport (KRT), which is nearly antipodal to Arutua Airport (meaning Arutua Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Khartoum International Airport), and is located 12,377 miles (19,919 kilometers) away in Khartoum, Sudan.

Facts about Abruzzo Airport (PSR):

• Currently the building of the old passenger terminal was converted to a warehouse and was employed by the airline cargoTNTup to December 2008 and operated by Maersk until October 2010.
• Abruzzo Airport (PSR) currently has only 1 runway.
• Abruzzo Airport handled 563,187 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Abruzzo Airport (PSR) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,892 miles (19,138 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In 1973 the historian, Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, who was living in Abruzzo, organised a British Caledonian BAC 111 to take off from Genoa to Pescara as a test flight for a large commercial aircraft to test the feasibility of the approach and landing at Pescara.
• In addition, the airport will soon be served by the new trolley-line that will connect Pescara and its points of reference such as Pescara railway station and other neighboring towns such as Montesilvano and Francavilla al Mare.
• Since 1994, the scheduled flight to Milan Linate Airport is operated by Air One, the company founded in 1983 as a flight school and air taxi companies for services in Abruzzo as the Aliadriatica.
• The closest airport to Abruzzo Airport (PSR) is Latina Airport (QLT), which is located 90 miles (145 kilometers) SW of PSR.
• Because of Abruzzo Airport's relatively low elevation of 48 feet, planes can take off or land at Abruzzo 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.