Nonstop flight route between Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines and West Yellowstone, Montana, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Laguindingan Airport (CGY), Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines and Yellowstone Airport (WYS), West Yellowstone, Montana, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,392 miles (or 11,896 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 Laguindingan Airport and Yellowstone 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 Laguindingan Airport and Yellowstone Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Laguindingan Airport (CGY):

• The furthest airport from Laguindingan Airport (CGY) is Piloto Osvaldo Marques Dias Airport (AFL), which is nearly antipodal to Laguindingan Airport (meaning Laguindingan Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Piloto Osvaldo Marques Dias Airport), and is located 12,342 miles (19,863 kilometers) away in Alta Floresta, Brazil.
• By early 2008, the start of grading of the airport site area.
• The closest airport to Laguindingan Airport (CGY) is Maria Cristina Airport (IGN), which is located 37 miles (60 kilometers) SSW of CGY.
• The approved cost of the airport project is US$ 167.09 million or ₱ 7.853 billion.
• Ayala Land, who originally owns 183 of 417 hectares of the land acquired by the government to develop the airport complex, has future plans to develop an aerotropolis around the airport.
• Laguindingan Airport (CGY) currently has only 1 runway.
• The airport complex features a single 2,100 x 45 meter runway, which can accommodate four plane landings and takeoffs an hour.
• The airport sits on a 4.17 square kilometer site in Barangay Moog, Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental, and is located 46 kilometers away from the city center of Cagayan de Oro.
• In addition to being known as "Laguindingan Airport", another name for CGY is "Paliparan ng Laguindingan (Filipino)Tugpahanan sa Laguindingan (Cebuano)".

Facts about Yellowstone Airport (WYS):

• Delta/Skywest Airlines EMB120
• The furthest airport from Yellowstone Airport (WYS) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,685 miles (17,196 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The closest airport to Yellowstone Airport (WYS) is Dubois Municipal Airport (DBS), which is located 65 miles (105 kilometers) WSW of WYS.
• Two airlines actually operated mainline jet aircraft into the airport in the past, although all service was seasonal in nature and was not operated during the winter months.
• Because of Yellowstone Airport's high elevation of 6,649 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at WYS. Combined with a high temperature, this could make WYS a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Yellowstone Airport (WYS) currently has only 1 runway.
• Aerial Fire Center is located two miles north of the Yellowstone National Park Gateway community of West Yellowstone, MT, 90 miles south of Bozeman, MT and 100 miles northeast of Idaho Falls, Idaho.