Nonstop flight route between Don Muang, Bangkok, Thailand and Comiso, Italy:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Don Mueang International Airport (DMK), Don Muang, Bangkok, Thailand and Comiso Airport (CIY), Comiso, Italy would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,426 miles (or 8,733 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 Don Mueang International Airport and Comiso 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 Don Mueang International Airport and Comiso Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Don Mueang International Airport (DMK):

• The furthest airport from Don Mueang International Airport (DMK) is Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM), which is nearly antipodal to Don Mueang International Airport (meaning Don Mueang International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Jorge Chávez International Airport), and is located 12,235 miles (19,691 kilometers) away in Callao (near Lima), Peru.
• Don Mueang is a joint-use facility with the Royal Thai Air Force's Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base, and is the home of the RTAF 1st Air Division, which consists primarily of non-combat aircraft.
• Before the opening of Suvarnabhumi, the airport used the IATA airport code BKK and the name was spelled Don Muang.
• On 30 January 2007, the Ministry of Transport recommended temporarily reopening Don Mueang while touch up work process on some taxiways at Suvarnabhumi proceeds.
• Because of Don Mueang International Airport's relatively low elevation of 9 feet, planes can take off or land at Don Mueang 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 Don Mueang International Airport (DMK) is Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), which is located only 18 miles (29 kilometers) SSE of DMK.
• Don Mueang International Airport (DMK) has 2 runways.
• In addition to being known as "Don Mueang International Airport", another name for DMK is "ท่าอากาศยานดอนเมือง".
• Originally, the only access was by rail service connecting with Hua Lamphong Railway Station in the center of Bangkok.
• Currently Terminal 1 is capable of handling 18.5 million passengers annually.

Facts about Comiso Airport (CIY):

• The first civil flight was made on a 30 April 2007, after the necessary tests and the inauguration of the new runway, but the airport was open to the traffic only the 30th of May 2013.
• Comiso Airport (CIY) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Comiso Airport (CIY) is Naval Air Station Sigonella (NSY), which is located 33 miles (53 kilometers) NNE of CIY.
• The furthest airport from Comiso Airport (CIY) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,689 miles (18,812 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The airfield and facilities at Magliocco fell into disuse during the postwar years.
• In addition to being known as "Comiso Airport", another name for CIY is "Aeroporto di Comiso".
• Aerial bombardments by the Allies rendered the airfield unserviceable on 26 May and 17 June 1943 in preparation for Operation Husky, the allied landings on Sicily.
• During the Cold War, on August 7, 1981 it was officially selected as the second European main operating base for BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles, deployed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in response to the development and deployment of new intercontinental and intermediate range missiles by the Soviet Union.
• In the late 1990s, Comiso was used for the Rainbow Mission, to house 5,000 Kosovars during the war in former Yugoslavia.
• Because of Comiso Airport's relatively low elevation of 620 feet, planes can take off or land at Comiso 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.