Nonstop flight route between In Amenas, Algeria and Gibraltar:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between In Amenas Airport (IAM), In Amenas, Algeria and Gibraltar International Airport (GIB), Gibraltar would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,039 miles (or 1,672 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 In Amenas Airport and Gibraltar International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about In Amenas Airport (IAM):

• The furthest airport from In Amenas Airport (IAM) is Fuaʻamotu International Airport (TBU), which is located 11,878 miles (19,116 kilometers) away in Nukuʻalofa, Tongatapu, Tonga.
• In Amenas Airport handled 145,070 passengers last year.
• In Amenas Airport (IAM) has 2 runways.
• In addition to being known as "In Amenas Airport", other names for IAM include "In Amenas Airport (Zarzaitine)" and "Aéroport de in Amenas / Zarzaitine".
• The closest airport to In Amenas Airport (IAM) is Ghadames Airport (LTD), which is located 145 miles (233 kilometers) N of IAM.

Facts about Gibraltar International Airport (GIB):

• Gibraltar International Airport handled 383,013 passengers last year.
• In addition to being known as "Gibraltar International Airport", another name for GIB is "(North Front Airport)".
• 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.
• It was announced in January 2014 that an air route between Gibraltar and Marrakech would be established and launched in April.
• The closest airport to Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) is Ceuta Heliport (JCU), which is located only 18 miles (29 kilometers) S of GIB.
• Gibraltar International Airport (GIB) currently has only 1 runway.
• 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 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.
• On 3 November 2003, Monarch announced a new route from Gibraltar to Manchester Airport.
• On 14 August 2012, Monarch announced it would launch a new route to Birmingham, operating three times a week.
• The airport was constructed during World War II upon the territory's race course, when Gibraltar was an important naval base for the British.
• There will be several car parks built at Gibraltar International during its expansion.