Nonstop flight route between Fajardo, Puerto Rico, United States and Bacolod City, Philippines:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Diego Jiménez Torres Airport (FAJ), Fajardo, Puerto Rico, United States and Bacolod-Silay International Airport (BCD), Bacolod City, Philippines would travel a Great Circle distance of 10,342 miles (or 16,644 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 Diego Jiménez Torres Airport and Bacolod-Silay 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 Diego Jiménez Torres Airport and Bacolod-Silay 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 Diego Jiménez Torres Airport (FAJ):

• The furthest airport from Diego Jiménez Torres Airport (FAJ) is Barrow Island Airport (BWB), which is nearly antipodal to Diego Jiménez Torres Airport (meaning Diego Jiménez Torres Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Barrow Island Airport), and is located 12,247 miles (19,709 kilometers) away in Barrow Island, Western Australia, Australia.
• Diego Jiménez Torres Airport is a public use airport owned by the Puerto Rico Ports Authority and located one nautical mile southwest of the central business district of Fajardo, a city in Puerto Rico.
• Because of Diego Jiménez Torres Airport's relatively low elevation of 64 feet, planes can take off or land at Diego Jiménez Torres 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.
• Diego Jiménez Torres Airport (FAJ) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Diego Jiménez Torres Airport (FAJ) is Humacao Airport (HUC), which is located only 15 miles (24 kilometers) SW of FAJ.
• In addition to being known as "Diego Jiménez Torres Airport", other names for FAJ include "Fajardo Airport" and "X95".
• Airport operations were shut down in November 2008 and transferred to the newly opened José Aponte de la Torre Airport in Ceiba.

Facts about Bacolod-Silay International Airport (BCD):

• The Bacolod-Silay International Airport is designated as an International Airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, a body of the Department of Transportation and Communications that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but also of all other airports in the Philippines except the major international airports.
• The closest airport to Bacolod-Silay International Airport (BCD) is Iloilo International Airport (Cabatuan Airport) (ILO), which is located 36 miles (57 kilometers) W of BCD.
• In addition to being known as "Bacolod-Silay International Airport", another name for BCD is "Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Bacolod-SilayPangkalibutan nga Hulugpaan sang Bacolod-Silay".
• The furthest airport from Bacolod-Silay International Airport (BCD) is Inácio Luís do Nascimento Airport (JUA), which is nearly antipodal to Bacolod-Silay International Airport (meaning Bacolod-Silay International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Inácio Luís do Nascimento Airport), and is located 12,385 miles (19,932 kilometers) away in Juara, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
• The first aircraft ever to land at the airport was a small fourteen-seater turboprop owned by Vincent Aviation.
• Bacolod-Silay International Airport (BCD) currently has only 1 runway.
• The airport is located fifteen kilometers northeast of Bacolod City on a 181-hectare site in Barangay Bagtic,Silay City.
• Bacolod-Silay International Airport handled 1,349,442 passengers last year.
• The state-of-the-art main passenger terminal is equipped with a flight information display system, mechanized baggage handling systems for both inbound and outbound baggage, numerous security X-ray machines, and elevators and escalators.