Nonstop flight route between Tehran, Iran and Bridgetown, Barbados:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA), Tehran, Iran and Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI), Bridgetown, Barbados would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,810 miles (or 10,959 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 Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport and Grantley Adams 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 Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport and Grantley Adams 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 Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA):

• Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport handled 4,986,477 passengers last year.
• The closest airport to Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) is Mehrabad Airport (THR), which is located 21 miles (34 kilometers) NNE of IKA.
• On 11 May, in a meeting of the Turkish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ugur Ziyal and Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, the Turkish expressed uneasiness about the actions of the Iranian armed forces.
• About 3 trillion rials have been sought for completing Phase 1 of Imam Khomeini International Airport, in the next Iranian year to March 2009, announced managing director of the State Airports Company, Asghar Ketabchi.
• The furthest airport from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) is Totegegie Airport (GMR), which is located 11,511 miles (18,525 kilometers) away in Mangareva, Gambier Islands, French Polynesia.
• The original opening was scheduled for 11 February 2004, the onset of the auspicious "Ten-Day Dawn" celebrations, marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
• In addition to being known as "Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport", another name for IKA is "فرودگاه امام خمینی".
• Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) has 2 runways.

Facts about Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI):

• Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI) is Hewanorra International Airport (UVF), which is located 108 miles (174 kilometers) WNW of BGI.
• To the east of the main Sir Grantley Adams Airport is the 8,534 m2 site of the British Airways Concorde Museum on the old Spencers Plantation.
• Air transportation at the site of present day airport, then known as Seawell Airport, goes back as far as the late 1930s.
• Grantley Adams International Airport has two terminal buildings designed to appear as one single continuous structure.
• The furthest airport from Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI) is Tardamu Airport (SAU), which is nearly antipodal to Grantley Adams International Airport (meaning Grantley Adams International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Tardamu Airport), and is located 12,231 miles (19,684 kilometers) away in Savu Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
• In addition to being known as "Grantley Adams International Airport", another name for BGI is "78954[1][2][4]".
• The airport resides at an elevation of 52 metres above mean sea level.
• Grantley Adams Airport also serves as the main air-transportation hub for the Eastern Caribbean.
• The Phase III expansion planned had to wait until the completion of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, it envisions the addition of new airport terminal Jetway, new spacious departure lounges much closer to the aeroplanes and air bridges to make connections at the facility much easier.