Nonstop flight route between Granada, Spain and Shannon (County Clare), Ireland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Granada Airport (GRX), Granada, Spain and Shannon Airport (SNN), Shannon (County Clare), Ireland would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,100 miles (or 1,771 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 relatively short distance between Granada Airport and Shannon Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

Departure Airport Information:

Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about Granada Airport (GRX):

• The closest airport to Granada Airport (GRX) is Málaga Airport (AGP), which is located 53 miles (86 kilometers) SW of GRX.
• The furthest airport from Granada Airport (GRX) is Tauranga Airport (TRG), which is nearly antipodal to Granada Airport (meaning Granada Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Tauranga Airport), and is located 12,403 miles (19,961 kilometers) away in Tauranga, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Granada Airport", another name for GRX is "Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén Airport GRX".
• Granada Airport (GRX) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Shannon Airport (SNN):

• It has been hinted that a route to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol or Frankfurt Airport could commence in 2015.
• Shannon Airport (SNN) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Shannon Airport", another name for SNN is "Aerfort na Sionainne".
• The last quarter of 2012 saw a resurgence for Shannon, with new services announced for Philadelphia and Chicago, a return of Aer Lingus to JFK and Boston, and Delta to JFK, giving Shannon direct services to five US airports for 2013.
• In the late 1930s, transatlantic air traffic was dominated by flying boats, and a flying boat terminal was located at Foynes on the south side of the Shannon Estuary.
• Shannon Airport handled 1,400,032 passengers last year.
• The closest airport to Shannon Airport (SNN) is Inisheer Aerodrome (INQ), which is located 35 miles (56 kilometers) NW of SNN.
• The furthest airport from Shannon Airport (SNN) is Ryan's Creek Aerodrome (SZS), which is nearly antipodal to Shannon Airport (meaning Shannon Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Ryan's Creek Aerodrome), and is located 12,015 miles (19,336 kilometers) away in Stewart Island, New Zealand.
• In 1936, the Government of Ireland confirmed that it would develop a 3.1 km2 site at Rineanna for the country's first transatlantic airport.
• Shannon Airport is one of Ireland's three primary airports, along with Dublin and Cork.
• When World War II ended, the airport was ready to be used by the many new post-war commercial airlines of Europe and North America.
• Because of Shannon Airport's relatively low elevation of 46 feet, planes can take off or land at Shannon 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.
• Shannon continued to expand during the Celtic Tiger years with many services operated to the US and Canada.