Nonstop flight route between Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines and Yandina, Solomon Islands:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Dipolog Airport (DPL), Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines and Yandina Airport (XYA), Yandina, Solomon Islands would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,755 miles (or 4,434 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 Dipolog Airport and Yandina 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 Dipolog Airport and Yandina Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Dipolog Airport (DPL):

• In December 2006, it registered a maximum traffic of 330 daily passengers on several occasions based on the aircraft's available capacity serving the route with Philippine Airlines utilizing the much bigger Boeing 737-400 with a seating capacity of 180 passengers.
• Because of Dipolog Airport's relatively low elevation of 12 feet, planes can take off or land at Dipolog 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.
• In addition to being known as "Dipolog Airport", another name for DPL is "Paliparan ng Dipolog".
• Dipolog Airport handled 165,163 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Dipolog Airport (DPL) is Piloto Osvaldo Marques Dias Airport (AFL), which is nearly antipodal to Dipolog Airport (meaning Dipolog Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Piloto Osvaldo Marques Dias Airport), and is located 12,341 miles (19,862 kilometers) away in Alta Floresta, Brazil.
• The Dipolog Airport upgrading project was part of The 1997 Third Airport Development Project, a six-airport package which was supposed to be funded by the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, and the Philippine government with its counterpart fund.
• Dipolog Airport (DPL) currently has only 1 runway.
• The late 1980s saw a dramatic upsurge in foreign tourist arrival.
• The closest airport to Dipolog Airport (DPL) is Labo Airport (OZC), which is located 45 miles (73 kilometers) SE of DPL.
• The airport's strategic location during World War II and the liberation of Zamboanga and Mindanao by American and Philippine Commonwealth Forces in 1945 prompted the national government to develop the field as an alternate airport to Zamboanga International Airport principally for national security reasons arising from natural and man made emergencies.

Facts about Yandina Airport (XYA):

• The furthest airport from Yandina Airport (XYA) is Cap Skirring Airport (CSK), which is nearly antipodal to Yandina Airport (meaning Yandina Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Cap Skirring Airport), and is located 12,080 miles (19,440 kilometers) away in Cap Skirring, Senegal.
• The closest airport to Yandina Airport (XYA) is Honiara International Airport (formerly Henderson Field) (HIR), which is located 62 miles (99 kilometers) ESE of XYA.