Nonstop flight route between Houston, Texas, United States and Lviv, Ukraine:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Houston, Texas, United States and Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (LWO), Lviv, Ukraine would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,789 miles (or 9,316 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 George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International 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 George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH):

• Atlas Air offers a thrice-weekly charter service to Luanda, Angola on behalf of SonAir.
• The closest airport to George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) is David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH), which is located only 14 miles (22 kilometers) WNW of IAH.
• Because of George Bush Intercontinental Airport's relatively low elevation of 97 feet, planes can take off or land at George Bush Intercontinental 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 site for Bush Intercontinental Airport was originally purchased by a group of Houston businessmen in 1957 to preserve the site until the city of Houston could formulate a plan for a second airport, supplanting what was then known as Houston Municipal Airport.
• George Bush Intercontinental Airport handled 40,128,953 passengers last year.
• Houston Intercontinental Airport, as it was originally known, opened in June 1969.
• In addition to being known as "George Bush Intercontinental Airport", another name for IAH is "Houston-Intercontinental".
• The furthest airport from George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) is Cocos (Keeling) Island Airport (CCK), which is located 10,981 miles (17,672 kilometers) away in Cocos Islands, Australia.
• George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) has 5 runways.
• In the late 1980s, Houston City Council considered a plan to rename the airport after Mickey Leland—an African-American congressman who died in an aviation accident in Ethiopia.
• On July 11, 2013, Air China began nonstop flights from Houston to Beijing, China using a Boeing 777-300ER.
• There are three main entrances into IAH's terminal areas.

Facts about Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (LWO):

• In addition to being known as "Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport", other names for LWO include "Міжнародний аеропорт «Львів» імені Данила Галицького" and "LWO[1]".
• The closest airport to Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (LWO) is Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport (IFO), which is located 72 miles (116 kilometers) SSE of LWO.
• The furthest airport from Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (LWO) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,390 miles (18,331 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The airfield was the site of the Sknyliv air show disaster in 2002, which killed 77.