Nonstop flight route between Bangor, Maine, United States and Pô, Burkina Faso:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Bangor International Airport (BGR), Bangor, Maine, United States and Pô Airport (PUP), Pô, Burkina Faso would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,585 miles (or 7,379 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 Bangor International Airport and Pô 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 Bangor International Airport and Pô Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Bangor International Airport (BGR):

• Because of Bangor International Airport's relatively low elevation of 192 feet, planes can take off or land at Bangor 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 2003, Delta Air Lines added daily connection flights to Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport and Boston Logan International Airport.
• In October 1969, a Trans World Airlines plane that had been hijacked in California refueled in Bangor on its way to Rome, where the hijacker was captured.
• Regular air passenger service to Portland and Boston was begun in 1931 by Boston-Maine Airways, owned by the Boston and Maine and Bangor and Aroostook railroads and under contract to Pan American, which was interested in the airport as a stop on its planned intercontinental air route between the U.S.
• Bangor International Airport (BGR) currently has only 1 runway.
• North American Airlines, operated by Global Aviation Holdings, Inc., frequently uses Bangor International to transport U.S.
• From the 1970s into the 1990s, the airport attracted 3,000 to 5,000 commercial flights a year, mostly charter jetliners flying between Europe and the West Coast of the United States, or the Caribbean and Mexico.
• The furthest airport from Bangor International Airport (BGR) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 11,670 miles (18,782 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• Bangor has been the port of entry for over a million servicemen and women returning from the Gulf War, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the NATO operations IFOR and SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina on military charters.
• The closest airport to Bangor International Airport (BGR) is Old Town Municipal Airport (OLD), which is located only 13 miles (20 kilometers) NE of BGR.

Facts about Pô Airport (PUP):

• The closest airport to Pô Airport (PUP) is Zabré Airport (XZA), which is located 36 miles (58 kilometers) E of PUP.
• The furthest airport from Pô Airport (PUP) is Funafuti International Airport (FUN), which is nearly antipodal to Pô Airport (meaning Pô Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Funafuti International Airport), and is located 12,252 miles (19,718 kilometers) away in Funafuti, Tuvalu.
• In addition to being known as "Pô Airport", another name for PUP is "Pô Airport (Pô)".
• Pô Airport (PUP) currently has only 1 runway.