Nonstop flight route between Calama, Antofagasta Region, Chile and Las Vegas, Nevada, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between El Loa Airport (CJC), Calama, Antofagasta Region, Chile and McCarran International Airport (LAS), Las Vegas, Nevada, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,049 miles (or 8,126 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 El Loa Airport and McCarran 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 El Loa Airport and McCarran 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: | CJC / SCCF |
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Location: | Calama, Antofagasta Region, Chile |
GPS Coordinates: | 22°29'22"S by 68°54'12"W |
Operator/Owner: | Dirección de Aeronautica Civil de Chile (DGAC) |
Airport Type: | Domestic Airport |
Elevation: | 7543 feet (2,299 meters) |
View all routes: | Routes from CJC |
More Information: | CJC Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | LAS / KLAS |
Airport Name: | McCarran International Airport |
Location: | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 36°4'47"N by 115°9'7"W |
Area Served: | Las Vegas, Nevada |
Operator/Owner: | Clark County |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 2181 feet (665 meters) |
# of Runways: | 4 |
View all routes: | Routes from LAS |
More Information: | LAS Maps & Info |
Facts about El Loa Airport (CJC):
- The closest airport to El Loa Airport (CJC) is Carolina Airport (CLN), which is located 89 miles (143 kilometers) W of CJC.
- The furthest airport from El Loa Airport (CJC) is Wuzhou Changzhoudao Airport (WUZ), which is nearly antipodal to El Loa Airport (meaning El Loa Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Wuzhou Changzhoudao Airport), and is located 12,369 miles (19,906 kilometers) away in Wuzhou, Guangxi, China.
- El Loa Airport, is the major airport serving Calama, and one of the largest airports in Chile.
- El Loa Airport handled 315,725 passengers last year.
- In addition to being known as "El Loa Airport", other names for CJC include "Aeropuerto El Loa" and "El Loa Airdrome".
- Because of El Loa Airport's high elevation of 7,543 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at CJC. Combined with a high temperature, this could make CJC a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
- The airport currently accommodates aircraft with a maximum wingspan of 36m.
Facts about McCarran International Airport (LAS):
- The US Airways night-flight hub operation, established in 1986 by predecessor America West Airlines, made the carrier McCarran's second busiest airline.
- The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 33 weekday departures on Western, United, TWA and Bonanza.
- Terminal 2 opened on December 18, 1991, as The Charter International Terminal and was used for all international as well as most charter flights into Las Vegas.
- In 2007 airport officials estimated the maximum capacity for the airport at 53 million passengers and 625,000 aircraft movements per year.
- The closest airport to McCarran International Airport (LAS) is Henderson Executive Airport (HSH), which is located only 7 miles (12 kilometers) S of LAS.
- In 2003 the airport announced it was implementing a baggage-tracking system that will use Radio-frequency identification bag tags from Matrics Inc.
- The furthest airport from McCarran International Airport (LAS) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,305 miles (18,194 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
- McCarran International Airport handled 40,933,037 passengers last year.
- McCarran International Airport (LAS) has 4 runways.
- An expansion plan, McCarran 2000, was adopted in 1978 and funded by a $300 million bond issue in 1982.