Nonstop flight route between Cross City, Florida, United States and Sofia, Bulgaria:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Cross City Airport (CTY), Cross City, Florida, United States and Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF), Sofia, Bulgaria would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,607 miles (or 9,024 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 Cross City Airport and Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna, 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 Cross City Airport and Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Cross City Airport (CTY):

• Cross City Airport covers an area of 591 acres at an elevation of 42 feet above mean sea level.
• Cross City Airport (CTY) has 2 runways.
• Cross City Airport is a county owned, public use airport located one nautical mile east of the central business district of Cross City, a city in Dixie County, Florida, United States.
• The closest airport to Cross City Airport (CTY) is George T. Lewis Airport (CDK), which is located 35 miles (56 kilometers) S of CTY.
• The airport was opened as a public airfield in April, 1940.
• The furthest airport from Cross City Airport (CTY) is Shark Bay Airport (MJK), which is located 11,386 miles (18,324 kilometers) away in Monkey Mia, Western Australia, Australia.
• Because of Cross City Airport's relatively low elevation of 42 feet, planes can take off or land at Cross City 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.
• For the 12-month period ending February 8, 2010, the airport had 18,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 49 per day.

Facts about Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF):

• The passenger terminal building is designed with a capacity of 2,000 peak hour passengers or up to 2.6 million passengers a year, plus 26,000 tonnes of luggage.
• On 31 August 2006, Sofia Airport put its new runway system into operation, replacing the old and out-of-date facilities.
• The closest airport to Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF) is Plovdiv Airport (PDV), which is located 86 miles (138 kilometers) ESE of SOF.
• Service life of the new airport control tower will be more than 40 years and is designed to serve the airport with a possible extension.
• Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna handled 350,432 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,437 miles (18,405 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Options for different airport developments began to be examined in the mid-1960s.
• Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna", other names for SOF include "Vrazhdebna Airport" and "Летище София".