Nonstop flight route between Cali, Colombia and Beijing, People's Republic of China:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (CLO), Cali, Colombia and Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK), Beijing, People's Republic of China would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,313 miles (or 14,987 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 Beijing Capital 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 Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport and Beijing Capital 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 Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (CLO):

• 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.
• Following the conflict with Peru in 1932, President Enrique Olaya Herrera sought the help of engineers and pilots of SCADTA to find a suitable site to build an airport to support military air operations in the south of the country.
• The Department of Valle and the City Council had offered a lucrative prize of $ 9,500 pesos to the first pilot to land in the city.
• The airport name was changed to "Alfonso Bonilla Aragón" in honor of a civic leader and journalist vallecaucano, promoting the construction of the terminal, creating much controversy in the public eye.
• 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.
• Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (CLO) currently has only 1 runway.
• Alfonso Bonilla airport is notable in that it is one of the few secondary airports in Latin America open 24 hours a day.
• In addition to being known as "Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport", another name for CLO is "Aeropuerto Internacional Alfonso Bonilla Aragón".

Facts about Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK):

• Beijing Capital International Airport handled 83,712,355 passengers last year.
• Because of Beijing Capital International Airport's relatively low elevation of 116 feet, planes can take off or land at Beijing Capital 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.
• The T3 food-service area is called a "global kitchen," where 72 stores provide food ranging from formal dishes to fast food, from Chinese to western, from bakery goods to ice cream.
• One of Terminal 3's highlights is the US$240 million luggage-transfer system.
• Terminals 1 and 2 are linked by a public walkway that takes about 10–15 minutes to traverse.
• Terminal 1, with 60,000 m2 of space, opened on 1 January 1980, and replaced the smaller existing terminal which was in operation since 1958.
• The closest airport to Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) is Beijing Nanyuan Airport (NAY), which is located 23 miles (37 kilometers) SSW of PEK.
• Beijing Capital has rapidly ascended in rankings of the world's busiest airports in the past decade.
• Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) has 3 runways.
• In addition to being known as "Beijing Capital International Airport", other names for PEK include "北京首都国际机场" and "Běijīng Shǒudū Guójì Jīchǎng".
• The furthest airport from Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) is Gobernador Edgardo Castello Airport (VDM), which is nearly antipodal to Beijing Capital International Airport (meaning Beijing Capital International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Gobernador Edgardo Castello Airport), and is located 12,378 miles (19,920 kilometers) away in Viedma, Argentina.