Nonstop flight route between Chengdu, Sichuan, China and Ningbo, Zhejiang, China:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU), Chengdu, Sichuan, China and Ningbo Lishe International Airport (NGB), Ningbo, Zhejiang, China would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,046 miles (or 1,684 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 relatively short distance between Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport and Ningbo Lishe International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU):

• In 2013 United Airlines announced it would start a thrice-weekly flight from San Francisco to Chengdu, operated with Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
• Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU) has 2 runways.
• In addition to being known as "Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport", other names for CTU include "成都双流国际机场" and "Chéngdū Shuāngliú Guójì Jīchǎng".
• Terminal 2 under construction
• Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport handled 31,500,000 passengers last year.
• The airport is now an international civil airport with flights to more than 20 international destinations and many domestic airports, and is a hub for Chengdu Airlines, Air China and Sichuan Airlines.
• The closest airport to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU) is Mianyang Nanjiao Airport (MIG), which is located 75 miles (121 kilometers) NE of CTU.
• A large-scale expansion was conducted on flight area and navigation area from 1994 to 2001.
• The furthest airport from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU) is La Florida Airport (LSC), which is nearly antipodal to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (meaning Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from La Florida Airport), and is located 12,144 miles (19,543 kilometers) away in La Serena, Chile.
• On December 12, 1956, the Shuangguisi Airport was put under civil aviation, which was then formally listed as a civil aviation airport and renamed Chengdu Shuangliu Airport.

Facts about Ningbo Lishe International Airport (NGB):

• Ningbo Lishe International Airport handled 5,014,002 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Ningbo Lishe International Airport (NGB) is Curuzú Cuatiá Airport (UZU), which is nearly antipodal to Ningbo Lishe International Airport (meaning Ningbo Lishe International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Curuzú Cuatiá Airport), and is located 12,403 miles (19,961 kilometers) away in Curuzú Cuatiá, Corrientes, Argentina.
• Ningbo Lishe International Airport is the principal airport serving Ningbo, a major city in the Yangtze River Delta region and the second largest city in Zhejiang Province, China.
• The airport's operator signed a strategic partnership agreement on 10 June 2005 with Fraport, the operator of Frankfurt Airport under which it will sell a 25% stake to the German airport operator.
• In addition to being known as "Ningbo Lishe International Airport", other names for NGB include "宁波栎社国际机场" and "Níngbō Lìshè Guójì Jīchǎng".
• There are limousine airport buses operated by various operators to downtown Ningbo every hour.
• In 2004, the airport handled 1.85 million passengers and 34,800 tons of cargo and it is expected to handle 2.3 million passengers and 52,000 tons of cargo in 2008.
• Ningbo's first airport was opened for civil service on 16 November 1984 when a CAAC Antonov AN-24 aircraft landed at the military Ningbo Zhuangqiao Airport.
• In July 1992, the airport opened for international service and the first international service was opened to Hong Kong later the same year.
• The closest airport to Ningbo Lishe International Airport (NGB) is Zhoushan Putuoshan Airport (HSN), which is located 54 miles (88 kilometers) E of NGB.
• Ningbo Lishe International Airport (NGB) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Ningbo Lishe International Airport's relatively low elevation of 13 feet, planes can take off or land at Ningbo Lishe 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.