Nonstop flight route between Carcassonne, France and West Palm Beach, Florida, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Carcassonne Airport (CCF), Carcassonne, France and Palm Beach International Airport (PBI), West Palm Beach, Florida, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,617 miles (or 7,430 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 Carcassonne Airport and Palm Beach 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 Carcassonne Airport and Palm Beach International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Carcassonne Airport (CCF):

• The closest airport to Carcassonne Airport (CCF) is Castres - Mazamet Airport (DCM), which is located 23 miles (38 kilometers) N of CCF.
• The airport handles commercial national and international flights as well as private, non-regular air traffic.
• The furthest airport from Carcassonne Airport (CCF) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Carcassonne Airport (meaning Carcassonne Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,363 miles (19,896 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Carcassonne Airport is an airport serving Carcassonne and the south of Languedoc.
• The airport resides at an elevation of 434 feet above mean sea level.
• Carcassonne Airport (CCF) has 2 runways.
• Because of Carcassonne Airport's relatively low elevation of 434 feet, planes can take off or land at Carcassonne 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 being known as "Carcassonne Airport", another name for CCF is "Aéroport de Carcassonne".

Facts about Palm Beach International Airport (PBI):

• Palm Beach International Airport began operations in 1936 as Morrison Field.
• Palm Beach International Airport handled 5,609,168 passengers last year.
• The closest airport to Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) is Palm Beach County Park Airport (LNA), which is located only 6 miles (10 kilometers) S of PBI.
• Palm Beach International Airport is a public airport three miles west of Palm Beach, Florida, in West Palm Beach, Florida, and serves Palm Beach County.
• Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) has 3 runways.
• In conjunction with the slated construction of a new ATC tower at PBIA, the FAA intended to transfer all of PBIA's air traffic controllers whose assigned sector is between 5 and 40 miles from the airport to a remote facility at Miami International Airport.
• Because of Palm Beach International Airport's relatively low elevation of 19 feet, planes can take off or land at Palm Beach 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.
• A new 240-foot Airport Traffic Control tower is currently active on the north side of the airport along with a single-story, 9,000-square-foot ATBM Base Building.
• The airport was again used by the U.S.
• In October 1966 an eight-gate Main Terminal opened on the northeast side of the airport.
• The furthest airport from Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) is Shark Bay Airport (MJK), which is located 11,588 miles (18,650 kilometers) away in Monkey Mia, Western Australia, Australia.