Nonstop flight route between Wendover, Utah, United States and Cape Town, South Africa:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Wendover Airport (ENV), Wendover, Utah, United States and Cape Town International Airport (CPT), Cape Town, South Africa would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,825 miles (or 15,812 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 Wendover Airport and Cape Town 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 Wendover Airport and Cape Town 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 Wendover Airport (ENV):

• The closest airport to Wendover Airport (ENV) is Wells Municipal Airport (LWL), which is located 54 miles (87 kilometers) WNW of ENV.
• Because of Wendover Airport's high elevation of 4,237 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at ENV. Combined with a high temperature, this could make ENV a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The furthest airport from Wendover Airport (ENV) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,980 miles (17,671 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Several flying scenes for the 1997 movie Con Air were filmed at Wendover, using a Fairchild C-123K Provider.
• Wendover Airport covers an area of 1,960 acres at an elevation of 4,237 feet above mean sea level.
• Wendover AAF was declared surplus in 1976 and on June 16 most of the field, including the water system, was turned over to Wendover, Utah, as a municipal airport.
• Wendover Airport (ENV) has 2 runways.

Facts about Cape Town International Airport (CPT):

• Cape Town International Airport is the primary airport serving the city of Cape Town, and is the second busiest airport in South Africa and third busiest in Africa.
• Cape Town International Airport handled 8,505,563 passengers last year.
• The terminal contains 10 air bridges, evenly split between domestic and international usage.
• The furthest airport from Cape Town International Airport (CPT) is Princeville Airport (HPV), which is located 11,616 miles (18,693 kilometers) away in Hanalei, Hawaii, United States.
• Cape Town International Airport was opened in 1954, a year after Jan Smuts Airport on the Witwatersrand opened.
• There is no direct rail access to Cape Town International Airport.
• The closest airport to Cape Town International Airport (CPT) is George Airport (GRJ), which is located 217 miles (349 kilometers) E of CPT.
• Cape Town International Airport (CPT) has 2 runways.
• Because of Cape Town International Airport's relatively low elevation of 151 feet, planes can take off or land at Cape Town 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.
• Cape Town International Airport is approximately 20 kilometres from the city centre and is accessible from the N2 freeway, with Airport Approach Road providing a direct link between the N2 and the airport.
• The only hotel located within the airport precinct is the budget Road Lodge, owned by the City Lodge hotel chain group.
• With the fall of apartheid in the early 1990s, ownership of the airport was transferred from the state to the newly formed Airports Company South Africa, and the airport was renamed to the politically neutral Cape Town International Airport.