Nonstop flight route between Dolpa, Nepal and Los Angeles, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Dolpa Airport (DOP), Dolpa, Nepal and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Los Angeles, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,873 miles (or 12,670 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 Dolpa Airport and Los Angeles 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 Dolpa Airport and Los Angeles 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 Dolpa Airport (DOP):

• The closest airport to Dolpa Airport (DOP) is Jumla Airport (JUM), which is located 43 miles (69 kilometers) WNW of DOP.
• Because of Dolpa Airport's high elevation of 8,200 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at DOP. Combined with a high temperature, this could make DOP a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Dolpa Airport (DOP) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Dolpa Airport (DOP) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is located 11,680 miles (18,798 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.

Facts about Los Angeles International Airport (LAX):

• Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has 4 runways.
• Los Angeles International Airport handled 66,667,619 passengers last year.
• Because of Los Angeles International Airport's relatively low elevation of 126 feet, planes can take off or land at Los Angeles 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 distinctive white googie "Theme Building", designed by Pereira & Luckman architect Paul Williams and constructed in 1961 by Robert E.
• American Airlines' 707-123s flew the first jet passengers out of LAX to New York in January 1959.
• The furthest airport from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,487 miles (18,487 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• Today, LAX is in the midst of a $4.11 billion renovation and improvement program to expand and rehabilitate the Tom Bradley International Terminal to accommodate the next generation of larger aircraft, as well as handle the growing number of flights to and from the Southern California region, and to develop the Central Terminal Area of the airport to include streamlined passenger processing, public transportation and updated central utility plants.
• Since the 1920s, a neighborhood called Surfridge had been on the coastline west of the airport, part of the larger community of Palisades del Rey along with the neighborhood to the north now known as Playa del Rey.
• The closest airport to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is Hawthorne Municipal Airport (HHR), which is located only 4 miles (7 kilometers) ESE of LAX.
• In 1996 a $29 million, 277-foot-tall air traffic control tower was built near the Theme Building.