Nonstop flight route between Butte, Montana, United States and Bisha, Saudi Arabia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Bert Mooney Airport (BTM), Butte, Montana, United States and Bisha Domestic Airport (BHH), Bisha, Saudi Arabia would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,622 miles (or 12,266 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 Bert Mooney Airport and Bisha Domestic 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 Bert Mooney Airport and Bisha Domestic Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Bert Mooney Airport (BTM):

• Bert Mooney Airport covers 890 acres at an elevation of 5,550 feet.
• The furthest airport from Bert Mooney Airport (BTM) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,611 miles (17,077 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The closest airport to Bert Mooney Airport (BTM) is Dillon Airport (DLN), which is located 48 miles (78 kilometers) S of BTM.
• The airport name was changed in 1972 to honor Bert Mooney, an aviator from Butte who was the first to fly mail into Yellowstone National Park in 1935.
• Because of Bert Mooney Airport's high elevation of 5,550 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at BTM. Combined with a high temperature, this could make BTM a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Bert Mooney Airport (BTM) has 2 runways.
• On March 22, 2009 a Pilatus PC-12 flying in from Oroville, California crashed in Holy Cross Cemetery 500 feet from the airport, killing all 14 people on board.
• The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service facility.Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 30,431 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 25,178 in 2009 and 25,433 in 2010.

Facts about Bisha Domestic Airport (BHH):

• In addition to being known as "Bisha Domestic Airport", another name for BHH is "مطار بيشة المحلي".
• The closest airport to Bisha Domestic Airport (BHH) is Al-Baha Domestic Airport (ABT), which is located 68 miles (109 kilometers) WNW of BHH.
• The furthest airport from Bisha Domestic Airport (BHH) is Tureira Airport (ZTA), which is nearly antipodal to Bisha Domestic Airport (meaning Bisha Domestic Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Tureira Airport), and is located 12,343 miles (19,864 kilometers) away in Tureia, Tuamotus, French Polynesia.
• Bisha Domestic Airport (BHH) currently has only 1 runway.