Nonstop flight route between Lleida, Spain and Essex (near London), England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Lleida–Alguaire Airport (ILD), Lleida, Spain and London Stansted Airport (STN), Essex (near London), England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 702 miles (or 1,130 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 Lleida–Alguaire Airport and London Stansted Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Lleida–Alguaire Airport (ILD):

• The closest airport to Lleida–Alguaire Airport (ILD) is Huesca–Pirineos Airport (HSK), which is located 50 miles (81 kilometers) WNW of ILD.
• The furthest airport from Lleida–Alguaire Airport (ILD) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Lleida–Alguaire Airport (meaning Lleida–Alguaire Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,227 miles (19,678 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Lleida–Alguaire Airport", other names for ILD include "Aeroport de Lleida-Alguaire" and "ILD[1]".
• Lleida–Alguaire Airport (ILD) currently has only 1 runway.
• In 2010, The airport handled 61,679 passengers.

Facts about London Stansted Airport (STN):

• London Stansted Airport (STN) currently has only 1 runway.
• In 1984, the government approved a plan to develop Stansted in two phases, involving both airfield and terminal improvements that would increase the airport's capacity to 15 million passengers per year.
• Stansted is the newest passenger airport of all the main London airports.
• The closest airport to London Stansted Airport (STN) is MDPGA Wethersfield (WXF), which is located only 13 miles (21 kilometers) ENE of STN.
• The Ministry of Civil Aviation finally took control of Stansted in 1949 and the airport was then used as a base by several UK charter airlines.
• During the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s the Fire Service Training School was based on the eastern side of the airfield under the auspices of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, now the Civil Aviation Authority.
• Since 1984 the airport's capacity had been limited to a maximum throughput of 25 million passengers per annum in accordance with recommendations made by the 1984 public inquiry and confirmed by the government of the day.
• London Stansted Airport handled 17,852,393 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from London Stansted Airport (STN) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,858 miles (19,084 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Because of London Stansted Airport's relatively low elevation of 348 feet, planes can take off or land at London Stansted 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 terminal building was designed by Foster Associates with input from the structural engineer Peter Rice and features a "floating" roof, supported by a space frame of inverted-pyramid roof trusses, creating the impression of a stylised swan in flight.