Nonstop flight route between Bahawalpur, Pakistan and Mascot (near Sydney), Australia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Bahawalpur Airport (BHV), Bahawalpur, Pakistan and Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (SYD), Mascot (near Sydney), Australia would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,780 miles (or 10,911 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 Bahawalpur Airport and Sydney (Kingsford Smith) 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 Bahawalpur Airport and Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Bahawalpur Airport (BHV):

• In addition to being known as "Bahawalpur Airport", another name for BHV is "Sheikh Rashid Airport".
• The furthest airport from Bahawalpur Airport (BHV) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is nearly antipodal to Bahawalpur Airport (meaning Bahawalpur Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mataveri International Airport), and is located 12,271 miles (19,748 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.
• The airport was re-developed from funds of the United Arab Emirates government.
• The new building was named after late Dubai Emir, Sheikh Rashid Terminal, who also funded majority of the project.
• The airport consists of arrival and departure halls, new airline offices, logistics, engineering and security support centres as well as cargo areas and passenger and cargo aircraft-parking bays.
• Bahawalpur Airport is situated 2 nm from the city centre of Bahawalpur, in lower Punjab.
• Because of Bahawalpur Airport's relatively low elevation of 392 feet, planes can take off or land at Bahawalpur 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.
• Bahawalpur Airport (BHV) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Bahawalpur Airport (BHV) is Muhammad Bin Qasim International Airport (MUX), which is located 62 miles (99 kilometers) NNW of BHV.

Facts about Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (SYD):

• Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (SYD) has 3 runways.
• Love established Mascot as a private concern, leasing 200 acres from the Kensington Race Club for three years.
• Because of Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport's relatively low elevation of 21 feet, planes can take off or land at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) 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 addition to the curfew, Sydney Airport also has a cap of 80 aircraft movements per hour which cannot be exceeded, leading to increased delays during peak hours.
• The Federal Government has bought most of the required land in a proposed site at Badgerys Creek, west of Sydney.
• The area that the airport was situated was originally a bullock paddock.Nigel Love, a former wartime pilot, was looking into the possibilities for aviation in Australia.
• In September 2012, Sydney Airport CEO Kerrie Mather announced the airport had abandoned the proposal to create alliance-based terminals in favour of terminals "based around specific airline requirements and transfer flows".
• The closest airport to Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (SYD) is Bankstown Airport (BWU), which is located only 11 miles (18 kilometers) W of SYD.
• The furthest airport from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (SYD) is Santa Maria Airport (SMA), which is nearly antipodal to Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (meaning Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Santa Maria Airport), and is located 12,144 miles (19,543 kilometers) away in Santa Maria, Portugal.
• In addition to being known as "Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport", another name for SYD is "Kingsford-Smith Airport".
• The "third runway" which the Commonwealth government commenced development of in 1989 and completed in 1994, remained controversial because of increased aircraftmovements, especially over many inner suburbs.