Nonstop flight route between Hyderabad, Pakistan and Falkland Islands:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا (HDD), Hyderabad, Pakistan and RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN), Falkland Islands would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,130 miles (or 14,694 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 Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا and RAF Mount Pleasant, 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 Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا and RAF Mount Pleasant. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا (HDD):

• The furthest airport from Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا (HDD) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is nearly antipodal to Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا (meaning Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mataveri International Airport), and is located 12,250 miles (19,714 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.
• Because of Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا's relatively low elevation of 135 feet, planes can take off or land at Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا 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 Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا (HDD) is Sindhri Airport (MPD), which is located 49 miles (78 kilometers) ENE of HDD.
• Hyderabad Airportحیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا (HDD) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN):

• On 2 March 2012, the Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called for Aerolineas Argentinas flights to Buenos Aires to replace LAN Airlines flights to Chile.
• The closest airport to RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN) is Port Stanley Airport (PSY), which is located 30 miles (49 kilometers) ENE of MPN.
• The furthest airport from RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN) is Mohe Gulian Airport (OHE), which is nearly antipodal to RAF Mount Pleasant (meaning RAF Mount Pleasant is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mohe Gulian Airport), and is located 12,353 miles (19,879 kilometers) away in Mohe, Heilongjiang, China.
• Flights are planned to Saint Helena when a new airport there opens in 2016.
• There is also a Joint Communications Unit providing the electronic warfare and command and control systems for the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force.
• The British government felt that Stanley airfield was not the best option for a large, permanent station and decided to construct a new RAF station and make it the centrepiece of considerably strengthened air defences for the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.