Nonstop flight route between Juina, Mato Grosso, Brazil and San Jose, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Juína Airport (JIA), Juina, Mato Grosso, Brazil and Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC), San Jose, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,296 miles (or 8,524 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 Juína Airport and Norman Y. Mineta San Jose 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 Juína Airport and Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about Juína Airport (JIA):

• The airport is located 2 km from downtown Juína.
• Juína Airport is the airport serving Juína, Brazil.
• In addition to being known as "Juína Airport", another name for JIA is "Aeroporto de Juína".
• Juína Airport (JIA) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Juína Airport (JIA) is Cuyo Airport (CYU), which is nearly antipodal to Juína Airport (meaning Juína Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Cuyo Airport), and is located 12,395 miles (19,948 kilometers) away in Cuyo, Palawan, Philippines.
• The closest airport to Juína Airport (JIA) is Juruena Airport (JRN), which is located 78 miles (126 kilometers) N of JIA.

Facts about Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC):

• Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) has 3 runways.
• Frontier Airlines pulled out of SJC in May 2010, citing lack of profitability on its single flight from the airport to Denver, Colorado.
• The closest airport to Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) is Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County (RHV), which is located only 6 miles (10 kilometers) ESE of SJC.
• In 2009, the gates at the airport were renumbered in preparation for the addition of Terminal B.
• The furthest airport from Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,363 miles (18,287 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• Because of Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport's relatively low elevation of 62 feet, planes can take off or land at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose 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.
• Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport handled 8,357,384 passengers last year.
• Despite San Jose being the largest city in the Bay Area, SJC is the smallest of the three Bay Area airline airports, with less than a quarter of the passengers of San Francisco International Airport and fewer passengers than Oakland International Airport.
• In 1990 San Jose International Airport greatly expanded with the opening of Terminal A.
• San Jose's first airline flights were Southwest Airways DC-3s on the multistop run between San Francisco and Los Angeles, starting in 1948.
• On February 4, 2013, Virgin America announced it will begin service from San Jose to Los Angeles International Airport on May 1, 2013, with four daily nonstop flights each way.