Nonstop flight route between Bergen, Norway and Mogadishu, Somalia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO), Bergen, Norway and Aden Adde International Airport (MGQ), Mogadishu, Somalia would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,549 miles (or 7,320 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 Bergen-Flesland International Airport and Aden Adde 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 Bergen-Flesland International Airport and Aden Adde 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 Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO):

• Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO) currently has only 1 runway.
• Bergen-Flesland International Airport handled 6,213,960 passengers last year.
• The airport had 70,000 passengers during its first twelve months of operations and exceeded 100,000 the following year.
• The furthest airport from Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,296 miles (18,179 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The Civil Aviation Administration started working on plans for an airport for Bergen in 1947.
• All passengers traveling on international flight must pass through the duty-free shop in order to get to their flight.
• The closest airport to Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO) is Stord Airport, Sørstokken (SRP), which is located 35 miles (56 kilometers) S of BGO.
• During a short period in 1959 there was a squadron stationed at Flesland.
• In addition to being known as "Bergen-Flesland International Airport", another name for BGO is "Bergen lufthavn, Flesland".
• Because of Bergen-Flesland International Airport's relatively low elevation of 166 feet, planes can take off or land at Bergen-Flesland 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.

Facts about Aden Adde International Airport (MGQ):

• Originally a modest-sized airport, the facility grew considerably in size in the post-independence period after numerous successive renovation projects.
• The closest airport to Aden Adde International Airport (MGQ) is Baidoa Airport (BIB), which is located 138 miles (223 kilometers) WNW of MGQ.
• Aden Adde International Airport (MGQ) currently has only 1 runway.
• On 8 June 2007, the Transitional Federal Government announced that the airport would be renamed in honor of the first President of Somalia, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, who had died earlier in the day.
• Among its first initiatives, worth an estimated $6 million, SKA invested in new airport equipment and expanded support services by hiring, training and equipping 200 local workers to meet international airport standards.
• In April 2014, Prime Minister of Somalia Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed laid the foundation stone for a new national Aviation Training Academy at the Aden Adde International Airportu.
• The furthest airport from Aden Adde International Airport (MGQ) is Atuona Airport (AUQ), which is located 11,824 miles (19,029 kilometers) away in Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.