Nonstop flight route between Cali, Colombia and Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (CLO), Cali, Colombia and RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ), Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,484 miles (or 8,825 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 Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport and RAF Honington USAAF Station 375, 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 Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport and RAF Honington USAAF Station 375. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (CLO):

• Alfonso Bonilla airport is notable in that it is one of the few secondary airports in Latin America open 24 hours a day.
• The closest airport to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (CLO) is Gerardo Tobar López Airport (BUN), which is located 46 miles (74 kilometers) WNW of CLO.
• The airport has one runway, 9,842 feet in length.
• Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (CLO) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport", another name for CLO is "Aeropuerto Internacional Alfonso Bonilla Aragón".
• The furthest airport from Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (CLO) is Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II International Airport (SMB II) (PLM), which is nearly antipodal to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (meaning Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II International Airport (SMB II)), and is located 12,350 miles (19,875 kilometers) away in Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia.
• However, the company Panagra initiative and with its own budget, we looked for a suitable place to build an airport to meet their international flights to Panama joined with the southern continent with a stop in Cali, as well as domestic flights of Avianca.
• International is on Terminal 1 while Domestic is on Terminal 2.

Facts about RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ):

• The furthest airport from RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,834 miles (19,044 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ) is RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) WNW of BEQ.
• In 1941, a Junkers Ju 88 was shot down by ground fire from Honington.
• The group patrolled the English Channel during the Normandy invasion in June 1944, and, while continuing escort operations, supported ground forces in France after the invasion by strafing and bombing locomotives, marshalling yards, bridges, barges, and other targets.
• In 1956, RAF Honington also became one of the main V bomber bases maintaining three Vickers Valiant squadrons, Nos, 7, 90, and 199.
• Honington was the last USAAF station to be returned to the RAF.