Nonstop flight route between Bilbao, Spain and Norman, Oklahoma, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Bilbao Airport (BIO), Bilbao, Spain and University of Oklahoma Max Westheimer Airport (OUN), Norman, Oklahoma, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,809 miles (or 7,740 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 Bilbao Airport and University of Oklahoma Max Westheimer 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 Bilbao Airport and University of Oklahoma Max Westheimer Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Bilbao Airport (BIO):

• On 19 February 1985, an Iberia flight from Madrid crashed into Mount Oiz, all passengers and crew died.
• Bilbao Airport (BIO) has 2 runways.
• There has been some criticism of Santiago Calatrava's design by Aena, the Spanish airport authority, because it seems difficult to make further enlargements in the terminal's capacity because the design is too closed.
• With the past increase of traffic, the terminal would have become saturated again in a year because it is designed to handle about 4.5 million passengers per year, in 2007 it went nearly to its maximum capacity.
• The airport has seen a constant increase in its traffic numbers, the old terminal was already saturated and obsolete in 1990, although it had been renewed only a few years earlier.
• The closest airport to Bilbao Airport (BIO) is Vitoria-Gasteiz Airport (VIT), which is located 30 miles (49 kilometers) SSE of BIO.
• During the eighties, the ILS landing system entered into service for runway 10/28.
• Bilbao Airport handled 3,800,789 passengers last year.
• Because of Bilbao Airport's relatively low elevation of 137 feet, planes can take off or land at Bilbao 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.
• Between 1964 and 1965, an instrumental ILS landing system and a meteorological radio for storm detection were installed.
• The furthest airport from Bilbao Airport (BIO) is Hood Aerodrome (MRO), which is nearly antipodal to Bilbao Airport (meaning Bilbao Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Hood Aerodrome), and is located 12,260 miles (19,730 kilometers) away in Masterton, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Bilbao Airport", another name for BIO is "Bilboko aireportua (eu) Aeropuerto de Bilbao (es)".

Facts about University of Oklahoma Max Westheimer Airport (OUN):

• University of Oklahoma Max Westheimer Airport (OUN) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from University of Oklahoma Max Westheimer Airport (OUN) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,853 miles (17,467 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The closest airport to University of Oklahoma Max Westheimer Airport (OUN) is Will Rogers World Airport (OKC), which is located only 13 miles (20 kilometers) NW of OUN.
• University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport is a public use airport three miles northwest of Norman, in Cleveland County, Oklahoma.
• Built as a civil airport on land donated by the Nuestadt family in the name of their uncle Max Westheimer to the University of Oklahoma and land from the city of Norman, Oklahoma, it was taken over by the U.S.