Nonstop flight route between Cajamarca, Peru and Akrotiri, Cyprus:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias (CJA), Cajamarca, Peru and RAF Akrotiri (AKT), Akrotiri, Cyprus would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,717 miles (or 12,420 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 Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias and RAF Akrotiri, 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 Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias and RAF Akrotiri. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias (CJA):

• The furthest airport from Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias (CJA) is Pattani Airport (PAN), which is nearly antipodal to Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias (meaning Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Pattani Airport), and is located 12,402 miles (19,959 kilometers) away in Pattani, Thailand.
• In addition to being known as "Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias", another name for CJA is "Aeropuerto Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias".
• The closest airport to Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias (CJA) is Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport (TRU), which is located 78 miles (125 kilometers) SSW of CJA.
• Because of Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias's high elevation of 8,781 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at CJA. Combined with a high temperature, this could make CJA a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias (CJA) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about RAF Akrotiri (AKT):

• Even this massive influx from Egypt was not the end.
• The station commander is double-hatted and is also the officer commanding the Akrotiri or Western Sovereign Base Area, reporting to the commander of British Forces Cyprus who is also the Administrator.
• Up until 1974 RAF Akrotiri had a balanced force of aircraft assigned to it, even including No.
• Akrotiri is also the winter training grounds of the RAF display team, the Red Arrows.
• The closest airport to RAF Akrotiri (AKT) is Paphos International Airport (PFO), which is located 30 miles (48 kilometers) WNW of AKT.
• The furthest airport from RAF Akrotiri (AKT) is Rurutu Airport (RUR), which is located 11,556 miles (18,598 kilometers) away in Rurutu, French Polynesia.
• In addition to being known as "RAF Akrotiri", another name for AKT is ""Aki"".
• In August 1970 a detachment of "G" of the Central Intelligence Agency arrived at the airfield with U-2 aircraft to monitor the Egypt/Israel Suez Canal fighting and cease fire.
• Akrotiri was also the location of the main transmitter of the well known numbers station, the Lincolnshire Poacher, although transmissions ceased in 2008.
• In August 2013, six RAF Typhoon Fighters were deployed to Akrotiri to defend the base, following possible military responses to of an alleged Syrian government chemical weapons attack.