Nonstop flight route between Upland, California, United States and Gibraltar:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Cable Airport (CCB), Upland, California, United States and Gibraltar International Airport (GIB), Gibraltar would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,914 miles (or 9,518 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 Cable Airport and Gibraltar International 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 Cable Airport and Gibraltar International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | CCB / KCCB |
Airport Name: | Cable Airport |
Location: | Upland, California, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 34°6'42"N by 117°41'15"W |
Operator/Owner: | Cable Land Co. |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 1444 feet (440 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from CCB |
More Information: | CCB Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | GIB / LXGB |
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Location: | Gibraltar |
GPS Coordinates: | 36°9'3"N by 5°20'58"W |
Area Served: | Gibraltar |
Operator/Owner: | Ministry of Defence |
Airport Type: | Military/Public |
Elevation: | 15 feet (5 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from GIB |
More Information: | GIB Maps & Info |
Facts about Cable Airport (CCB):
- For the 12-month period ending August 30, 2007, the airport had 92,189 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 252 per day.
- Cable Airport covers an area of 95 acres which contains one runway measuring 3,864 x 75 ft and two helipads, each measuring 65 x 65 ft.
- The closest airport to Cable Airport (CCB) is Brackett Field (POC), which is located only 6 miles (9 kilometers) WSW of CCB.
- The furthest airport from Cable Airport (CCB) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,459 miles (18,441 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
- Cable Airport (CCB) currently has only 1 runway.
Facts about Gibraltar International Airport (GIB):
- In addition to being known as "Gibraltar International Airport", another name for GIB is "(North Front Airport)".
- Because of Gibraltar International Airport's relatively low elevation of 15 feet, planes can take off or land at Gibraltar 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.
- The furthest airport from Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) is Whangarei Airport (WRE), which is nearly antipodal to Gibraltar International Airport (meaning Gibraltar International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Whangarei Airport), and is located 12,406 miles (19,965 kilometers) away in Whangarei, New Zealand.
- The closest airport to Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) is Ceuta Heliport (JCU), which is located only 18 miles (29 kilometers) S of GIB.
- A new dual carriageway is also being built.
- By late 2005 and early 2006, the implementation of a new agreement was one of the main topics of the Gibraltar Trilateral Forum being held between the Governments of Gibraltar, Spain and the United Kingdom.
- Since then, Spain successfully excluded Gibraltar from European wide de-regulation initiatives, preventing direct links from Gibraltar to the rest of the European Union, on the grounds that no regulation that somehow recognises the sovereignty of the United Kingdom over the Gibraltar peninsula may be implemented without a previous agreement on the airport.
- The terminal is 35,000 m2, which is 15,000 m2 bigger than the old terminal.
- Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) currently has only 1 runway.
- A new terminal has been constructed at Gibraltar International due to the high number of passengers using it.
- The airport was constructed during World War II upon the territory's race course, when Gibraltar was an important naval base for the British.
- Gibraltar International Airport handled 383,013 passengers last year.
- On 10 January 2012, Gibraltar was selected as one of the 'World's Scariest Airport Landings and Take-offs' in the travel section of the Daily Telegraph due to its runway which extends into the sea.