Nonstop flight route between Jönköping, Sweden and Falkland Islands:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Jönköping Airport (JKG), Jönköping, Sweden and RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN), Falkland Islands would travel a Great Circle distance of 8,599 miles (or 13,839 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 Jönköping Airport and RAF Mount Pleasant, 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 Jönköping Airport and RAF Mount Pleasant. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

Departure Airport Information:

Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about Jönköping Airport (JKG):

• There is parking at the airport, short-term and long-term parking lots.
• Jönköping Airport, called Axamo is an airport located about 8 km from Jönköping, Sweden.
• The furthest airport from Jönköping Airport (JKG) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,372 miles (18,301 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to Jönköping Airport (JKG) is Lidköping-Hovby Airport (LDK), which is located 59 miles (95 kilometers) NNW of JKG.
• In addition to being known as "Jönköping Airport", another name for JKG is "Jönköping flygplats".
• Because of Jönköping Airport's relatively low elevation of 741 feet, planes can take off or land at Jönköping 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.
• In the arrival terminal there is a telephone direct connected to the local taxi company.
• Jönköping Airport (JKG) has 2 runways.

Facts about RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN):

• The closest airport to RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN) is Port Stanley Airport (PSY), which is located 30 miles (49 kilometers) ENE of MPN.
• Flights of Phantoms were rotated through the airfield until 1992 when they were replaced with Tornado F3s.
• On 2 March 2012, the Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called for Aerolineas Argentinas flights to Buenos Aires to replace LAN Airlines flights to Chile.
• Currently located at Mount Pleasant are No.
• On 10 November 2011, it was announced that Prince William would be serving as a Sea King pilot on the station for six weeks during February and March 2012.
• The furthest airport from RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN) is Mohe Gulian Airport (OHE), which is nearly antipodal to RAF Mount Pleasant (meaning RAF Mount Pleasant is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mohe Gulian Airport), and is located 12,353 miles (19,879 kilometers) away in Mohe, Heilongjiang, China.
• RAF Mount Pleasant is the newest permanent airfield in the Royal Air Force.
• A flight of Westland Sea King helicopters for support and search and rescue has been located at Mount Pleasant since November 2007.
• RAF Mount Pleasant is a Royal Air Force station in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands.