Nonstop flight route between Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom and Weifang, Shandong, China:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Guernsey Airport (GCI), Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom and Weifang Airport (WEF), Weifang, Shandong, China would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,506 miles (or 8,860 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 Guernsey Airport and Weifang 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 Guernsey Airport and Weifang Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | GCI / EGJB |
Airport Name: | Guernsey Airport |
Location: | Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom |
GPS Coordinates: | 49°26'4"N by 2°36'6"W |
Area Served: | Guernsey |
Operator/Owner: | States of Guernsey |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 336 feet (102 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from GCI |
More Information: | GCI Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | WEF / ZSWF |
Airport Name: | Weifang Airport |
Location: | Weifang, Shandong, China |
GPS Coordinates: | 36°38'48"N by 119°7'5"E |
Elevation: | 0 feet (0 meters) |
View all routes: | Routes from WEF |
More Information: | WEF Maps & Info |
Facts about Guernsey Airport (GCI):
- Guernsey Airport handled 886,396 passengers last year.
- Guernsey Airport (GCI) currently has only 1 runway.
- The airport currently runs two liaison groups.
- The closest airport to Guernsey Airport (GCI) is Jersey Airport (JER), which is located 24 miles (39 kilometers) SE of GCI.
- The furthest airport from Guernsey Airport (GCI) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is nearly antipodal to Guernsey Airport (meaning Guernsey Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Dunedin International Airport), and is located 12,024 miles (19,350 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
- Flybe are unable to operate their Embraer 195 aircraft into Guernsey due to the low strength of the runway, and elected to operate the smaller de Havilland Dash 8s.
- Sufficient progress on these works has taken place to enable Flybe to introduce an Embraer 175 jet on their existing Gatwick service from 31 March 2013.
- Because of Guernsey Airport's relatively low elevation of 336 feet, planes can take off or land at Guernsey 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.
Facts about Weifang Airport (WEF):
- The furthest airport from Weifang Airport (WEF) is Olavarría Airport (OVR), which is nearly antipodal to Weifang Airport (meaning Weifang Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Olavarría Airport), and is located 12,396 miles (19,950 kilometers) away in Olavarría, Argentina.
- Because of Weifang Airport's relatively low elevation of 0 feet, planes can take off or land at Weifang 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 Weifang Airport (WEF) is Qingdao Liuting International Airport (TAO), which is located 75 miles (120 kilometers) ESE of WEF.