Nonstop flight route between Confins (near Belo Horizonte), Minas Gerais, Brazil and Iași, Romania:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport (CNF), Confins (near Belo Horizonte), Minas Gerais, Brazil and Iași International Airport (IAS), Iași, Romania would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,393 miles (or 10,289 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 Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport and Iași 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 Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport and Iași 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 Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport (CNF):

• In order to revert this scenario, in March 2005 the government of the state of Minas Gerais with the support of agencies of the Federal government decided to restrict Pampulha to operations of aircraft with capacity of up to 50 passengers.
• Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport handled 10,301,288 passengers last year.
• On 22 November 2013 the Brazilian Government had a bidding process to determine the airport's private operator from 2014 until 2044.
• Its cargo facilities have a capacity of handling 18.000 tones and the warehouse has 6.400 m².
• The closest airport to Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport (CNF) is Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (PLU), which is located only 16 miles (25 kilometers) S of CNF.
• The furthest airport from Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport (CNF) is Central Field (Iwo Jima)Motoyama No. 2Airfield No. 2 (IWO), which is located 11,945 miles (19,224 kilometers) away in Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Japan.
• Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport (CNF) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport", another name for CNF is "Aeroporto Internacional Tancredo Neves/Confins".
• After its inauguration, just a small fraction of the capacity of Confins was used.

Facts about Iași International Airport (IAS):

• The furthest airport from Iași International Airport (IAS) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,253 miles (18,109 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Iași International Airport", another name for IAS is "Aeroportul Internațional Iași".
• Iași International Airport (IAS) has 2 runways.
• Iași International Airport handled 231,933 passengers last year.
• For the long term, the project proposes other modules for the construction, at the eastern side of the runway, of a new passenger terminal, a new apron, two rapid-exit taxiways, a cargo terminal, an aircraft fuel depot, a new access roadway, as well as of a 600 m extension for the runway ).
• Iași International Airport has started a long-term, multi-stage upgrade program.
• Because of Iași International Airport's relatively low elevation of 397 feet, planes can take off or land at Iași 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 closest airport to Iași International Airport (IAS) is Bălți-Leadoveni International Airport (BZY), which is located 46 miles (75 kilometers) N of IAS.