Nonstop flight route between Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil and Lukla, Nepal:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil and Tenzing-Hillary Airport (LUA), Lukla, Nepal would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,550 miles (or 15,369 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 Campo dos Amarais State Airport and Tenzing-Hillary 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 Campo dos Amarais State Airport and Tenzing-Hillary Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | CPQ / SDAM |
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Location: | Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil |
GPS Coordinates: | 22°51'33"S by 47°6'29"W |
Area Served: | Campinas |
Operator/Owner: | DAESP |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 2008 feet (612 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from CPQ |
More Information: | CPQ Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | LUA / VNLK |
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Location: | Lukla, Nepal |
GPS Coordinates: | 27°41'14"N by 86°43'54"E |
Area Served: | Lukla, Nepal |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 9383 feet (2,860 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from LUA |
More Information: | LUA Maps & Info |
Facts about Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ):
- In addition to being known as "Campo dos Amarais State Airport", another name for CPQ is "Aeroporto Estadual Campo dos Amarais".
- Campo dos Amarais State Airport handled 28,194 passengers last year.
- The airport is located 8 km from downtown Campinas.
- Campo dos Amarais Airport, also known as Amarais Airport, is an airport serving Campinas, Brazil.
- Currently no scheduled flights operate at this airport.
- Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ) currently has only 1 runway.
- The closest airport to Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ) is Viracopos–Campinas International Airport (VCP), which is located only 10 miles (17 kilometers) S of CPQ.
- The furthest airport from Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ) is Minami-Daito Airport (MMD), which is nearly antipodal to Campo dos Amarais State Airport (meaning Campo dos Amarais State Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Minami-Daito Airport), and is located 12,206 miles (19,644 kilometers) away in Minami Daito, Okinawa, Japan.
Facts about Tenzing-Hillary Airport (LUA):
- In addition to being known as "Tenzing-Hillary Airport", another name for LUA is "तेन्जिङ हिलारी विमानस्थल".
- The furthest airport from Tenzing-Hillary Airport (LUA) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is located 11,446 miles (18,421 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.
- Tenzing-Hillary Airport (LUA) currently has only 1 runway.
- Aircraft can only use runway 06 for landings and runway 24 for takeoffs.There is no prospect of a successful go-around on short final due to the terrain.
- Because of Tenzing-Hillary Airport's high elevation of 9,383 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at LUA. Combined with a high temperature, this could make LUA a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
- The closest airport to Tenzing-Hillary Airport (LUA) is Phaplu Airport (PPL), which is located only 15 miles (24 kilometers) SW of LUA.
- The airport's paved asphalt runway is only accessible to helicopters and small, fixed-wing, short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft such as the De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, Dornier Do 228, and Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter.
- In January 2008 the airport was renamed in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest and also to mark their efforts in the construction of this airport.