Nonstop flight route between Frankfurt, Germany and Awaradam, Suriname:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Frankfurt Airport (FRA), Frankfurt, Germany and Cayana Airstrip (AAJ), Awaradam, Suriname would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,881 miles (or 7,854 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 Frankfurt Airport and Cayana Airstrip, 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 Frankfurt Airport and Cayana Airstrip. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Frankfurt Airport (FRA):

• Because of Frankfurt Airport's relatively low elevation of 364 feet, planes can take off or land at Frankfurt 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.
• Plans to build a fourth runway at Frankfurt Airport had been under-way since 1997 but due to the violent conflicts with the building of the third runway, Fraport let residents groups and environmentalists participate in the process to find an agreeable solution.
• Frankfurt Airport (FRA) has 3 runways.
• In 2011 a large office building called The Squaire opened at Frankfurt Airport.
• The closest airport to Frankfurt Airport (FRA) is Lucius D. Clay KaserneWiesbaden Army AirfieldWiesbaden Air BaseAdvanced Landing Ground Y-80Fliegerhorst Wiesbaden (WIE), which is located only 11 miles (18 kilometers) W of FRA.
• In addition to being known as "Frankfurt Airport", another name for FRA is "Flughafen Frankfurt am Main".
• The airport did not emerge as a major international airline hub until 1958 when a new passenger terminal called Empfangsanlage Ost opened in the north-east corner of the airport ground.
• The furthest airport from Frankfurt Airport (FRA) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,946 miles (19,225 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The southern side of the airport ground was home to the Rhein-Main Air Base, which was a major air base for the United States from 1947 until 2005, when the air base was closed and the property was acquired by Fraport.
• Frankfurt Airport lies 12 km southwest of central Frankfurt, near the Autobahn intersection Frankfurter Kreuz, where two of the most heavily used motorways in Europe meet.
• Frankfurt Airport handled 5,752,725 passengers last year.
• Terminal 2, which has a capacity of 15 million passengers a year, was opened in 1994 and is divided into concourses D and E.

Facts about Cayana Airstrip (AAJ):

• The closest airport to Cayana Airstrip (AAJ) is Djoemoe Airstrip (DOE), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) NE of AAJ.
• The furthest airport from Cayana Airstrip (AAJ) is Haluoleo Airport (WMA) (KDI), which is nearly antipodal to Cayana Airstrip (meaning Cayana Airstrip is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Haluoleo Airport (WMA)), and is located 12,298 miles (19,792 kilometers) away in Kendari, Indonesia.
• Cayana Airstrip (AAJ) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Cayana Airstrip", another name for AAJ is "Cajana Airstrip".