Nonstop flight route between Castle Donington, Leicestershire, United Kingdom and Paramaribo, Suriname:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between East Midlands Airport (EMA), Castle Donington, Leicestershire, United Kingdom and Zorg en Hoop Airport (ORG), Paramaribo, Suriname would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,436 miles (or 7,139 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 East Midlands Airport and Zorg en Hoop 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 East Midlands Airport and Zorg en Hoop Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about East Midlands Airport (EMA):

• Because of East Midlands Airport's relatively low elevation of 306 feet, planes can take off or land at East Midlands 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 airport was originally a Royal Air Force station, RAF Castle Donington, which was decommissioned in 1946.
• Derby Airways, which was in the process of being renamed British Midland Airways, moved its operations to the new airport and established its headquarters in nearby Donington Hall in Castle Donington, operating a network of domestic and international scheduled and charter flights at East Midlands.
• DHL Aviation opened a new £35m cargo facility on site in 2000, and in the same year a business park was constructed next to the airport.
• A major development towards the long-haul programme came in 2005 with the introduction of holiday flights to the Dominican Republic, Orlando, and Cancún by First Choice Airways.
• East Midlands Airport (EMA) currently has only 1 runway.
• East Midlands Airport handled 4,334,117 passengers last year.
• It was announced only just over a year later, on 3 May 2012, that Bmibaby would be closed down and cease all operations in September 2012 with a number of services being dropped from June.
• The closest airport to East Midlands Airport (EMA) is RAF Cottesmore (OKH), which is located 29 miles (47 kilometers) ESE of EMA.
• Other airlines operating from the airport include Aurigny Air Services, Eastern Airways and summer holiday charters by Freebird Airlines, Onur Air and BH Air.
• The furthest airport from East Midlands Airport (EMA) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,827 miles (19,034 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

Facts about Zorg en Hoop Airport (ORG):

• Departed from this airport in the 1980s, at the time of the civil war, appliances, which sowed death and destruction in Brunswick-minded villages and settlements.
• The furthest airport from Zorg en Hoop Airport (ORG) is Betoambari Airport (BUW), which is nearly antipodal to Zorg en Hoop Airport (meaning Zorg en Hoop Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Betoambari Airport), and is located 12,281 miles (19,764 kilometers) away in Bau-Bau, Buton, Indonesia.
• Because of Zorg en Hoop Airport's relatively low elevation of 10 feet, planes can take off or land at Zorg en Hoop 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 Zorg en Hoop Airport (ORG) is Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport (PBM), which is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) S of ORG.
• Zorg en Hoop Airport (ORG) currently has only 1 runway.