Nonstop flight route between Gibraltar and Corowa, New South Wales, Australia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Gibraltar International Airport (GIB), Gibraltar and Corowa Airport (CWW), Corowa, New South Wales, Australia would travel a Great Circle distance of 10,862 miles (or 17,481 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 Gibraltar International Airport and Corowa 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 Gibraltar International Airport and Corowa Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Gibraltar International Airport (GIB):

• In addition to being known as "Gibraltar International Airport", another name for GIB is "(North Front Airport)".
• Gibraltar International Airport handled 383,013 passengers last year.
• It was announced in January 2014 that an air route between Gibraltar and Marrakech would be established and launched in April.
• The airport was constructed during World War II upon the territory's race course, when Gibraltar was an important naval base for the British.
• Spain's continuing sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom over the territory where the airport stands has seriously affected the airport's operations.
• Because of this, a new four-lane diversion road and tunnel section was planned.
• Since then, Spain successfully excluded Gibraltar from European wide de-regulation initiatives, preventing direct links from Gibraltar to the rest of the European Union, on the grounds that no regulation that somehow recognises the sovereignty of the United Kingdom over the Gibraltar peninsula may be implemented without a previous agreement on the airport.
• Because of Gibraltar International Airport's relatively low elevation of 15 feet, planes can take off or land at Gibraltar 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.
• The closest airport to Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) is Ceuta Heliport (JCU), which is located only 18 miles (29 kilometers) S of GIB.
• On 3 November 2003, Monarch announced a new route from Gibraltar to Manchester Airport.
• The furthest airport from Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) is Whangarei Airport (WRE), which is nearly antipodal to Gibraltar International Airport (meaning Gibraltar International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Whangarei Airport), and is located 12,406 miles (19,965 kilometers) away in Whangarei, New Zealand.
• Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Corowa Airport (CWW):

• The closest airport to Corowa Airport (CWW) is Albury Airport (ABX), which is located 34 miles (55 kilometers) E of CWW.
• Corowa Airport (CWW) has 2 runways.
• Because of Corowa Airport's relatively low elevation of 469 feet, planes can take off or land at Corowa 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 furthest airport from Corowa Airport (CWW) is Flores Airport (FLW), which is nearly antipodal to Corowa Airport (meaning Corowa Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Flores Airport), and is located 12,161 miles (19,570 kilometers) away in Flores Island, Azores, Portugal.