Nonstop flight route between Zambezi, Zambia and Long Beach, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Zambezi Airport (BBZ), Zambezi, Zambia and Long Beach Airport (JLB), Long Beach, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,638 miles (or 15,510 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 Zambezi Airport and Long Beach 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 Zambezi Airport and Long Beach Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Zambezi Airport (BBZ):

• The furthest airport from Zambezi Airport (BBZ) is Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA), which is nearly antipodal to Zambezi Airport (meaning Zambezi Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Kona International Airport at Keāhole), and is located 12,005 miles (19,319 kilometers) away in Kailua / Kona, Hawaii, United States.
• Zambezi Airport (BBZ) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Zambezi Airport (BBZ) is Lukulu Airport (LXU), which is located 59 miles (95 kilometers) S of BBZ.

Facts about Long Beach Airport (JLB):

• Long Beach Airport (JLB) has 5 runways.
• Long Beach Airport handled 2,978,433 passengers last year.
• The closest airport to Long Beach Airport (JLB) is Long Beach Airport (LGB), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) N of JLB.
• Air cargo carriers, including FedEx and UPS, also use LGB.
• The first transcontinental flight, a biplane flown by Calbraith Perry Rodgers, landed in 1911 on Long Beach's sandy beach.
• In addition to being known as "Long Beach Airport", other names for JLB include "LGB", "KLGB" and "LGB".
• With the site acquired, in 1941, construction funds soon followed and NAS Los Alamitos began to take shape.
• In 1981, the startup airline Jet America began non-stop MD-80 service to Chicago and, in 1982, to Dallas-Fort Worth.
• The furthest airport from Long Beach Airport (JLB) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,489 miles (18,489 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• To attract the United States Navy, the City of Long Beach built a hangar and an administrative building and then offered to lease it to the Navy for $1 a year for the establishment of the Naval Reserve Air Base.
• The Long Beach Airport has an aggressive noise abatement program which includes three full-time noise specialists.
• Because of Long Beach Airport's relatively low elevation of 60 feet, planes can take off or land at Long Beach 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.