Nonstop flight route between Beaumont, Texas, United States and Sofia, Bulgaria:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Beaumont Municipal Airport (BMT), Beaumont, Texas, United States and Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF), Sofia, Bulgaria would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,041 miles (or 9,722 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 Beaumont Municipal Airport and Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna, 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 Beaumont Municipal Airport and Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Beaumont Municipal Airport (BMT):

• "We took off from the Beaumont Airport, hair care, and tire center", indicating that the airport is very small and similar to a Supercenter or a strip mall.
• The furthest airport from Beaumont Municipal Airport (BMT) is Cocos (Keeling) Island Airport (CCK), which is located 11,013 miles (17,724 kilometers) away in Cocos Islands, Australia.
• The closest airport to Beaumont Municipal Airport (BMT) is Jack Brooks Regional Airport (BPT), which is located only 14 miles (23 kilometers) SE of BMT.
• Beaumont Municipal Airport (BMT) has 2 runways.
• Because of Beaumont Municipal Airport's relatively low elevation of 32 feet, planes can take off or land at Beaumont Municipal 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 Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF):

• On 19 August 2011 in the presence of Ivaylo Moskovski, minister of transport, information technology and communications, the BULATSA director general Diyan Dinev, Glavbolgarstroy AD chief executive director Pavel Kalistratov and Glavbolgarstroy AD executive director and management board member Nina Stoyanova signed the design execution and construction contract between BULATSA and Glavbolgarstroy AD for the new control tower at Sofia Airport.
• The furthest airport from Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,437 miles (18,405 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna", other names for SOF include "Vrazhdebna Airport" and "Летище София".
• The closest airport to Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF) is Plovdiv Airport (PDV), which is located 86 miles (138 kilometers) ESE of SOF.
• Service life of the new airport control tower will be more than 40 years and is designed to serve the airport with a possible extension.
• The airport was initially built in the late 1930s on a site 6.3 km by road then.
• Terminal 2 was officially opened on 27 December 2006 with the symbolic arrival of Bulgaria Air flight FB 408 from Brussels.
• Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF) currently has only 1 runway.
• Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna handled 350,432 passengers last year.
• Options for different airport developments began to be examined in the mid-1960s.
• A significant and recurring operational criticism of Sofia Airport has concerned its historical lack of all-weather operations capability.
• A lot of consideration has been given to the design of the layout, the functional definition of the working positions, the operations room surface area for ANS provision and meteorological observation, as well as to the requirements for visibility to the runway and the approaches and access to an open observation platform.