Nonstop flight route between Jomsom, Nepal and Birmingham, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Jomsom Airport (JMO), Jomsom, Nepal and Birmingham Airport (BHX), Birmingham, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,485 miles (or 7,218 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 Jomsom Airport and Birmingham 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 Jomsom Airport and Birmingham Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Jomsom Airport (JMO):

• The furthest airport from Jomsom Airport (JMO) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is located 11,627 miles (18,712 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.
• Jomsom Airport (JMO) currently has only 1 runway.
• The airport resides at an elevation of 8,800 feet above mean sea level.
• The closest airport to Jomsom Airport (JMO) is Pokhara Airport (PKR), which is located 43 miles (69 kilometers) SSE of JMO.
• Because of Jomsom Airport's high elevation of 8,800 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at JMO. Combined with a high temperature, this could make JMO a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.

Facts about Birmingham Airport (BHX):

• Birmingham Airport (BHX) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Birmingham Airport (BHX) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,858 miles (19,084 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• Building a new control tower for the airport began in July 2011, to replace the old tower which has stood at the airport since it was opened in 1939.
• Birmingham Airport is 5.5 NM east-south-east of Birmingham city centre, in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull.
• In August 2013, the old carriageway of the A45 road was closed and the new carriage way was opened.
• Birmingham Airport handled 9,120,201 passengers last year.
• It's also been estimated that if these plans were to go ahead, the airport could handle around 70,000,000 passengers annually, and around 500,000 aircraft movements.
• The closest airport to Birmingham Airport (BHX) is Coventry Airport (CVT), which is located only 13 miles (20 kilometers) ESE of BHX.
• Because of Birmingham Airport's relatively low elevation of 341 feet, planes can take off or land at Birmingham 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.
• Birmingham handled a record 9.6 million passengers in 2008, and 9.1 million passengers used the airport in 2013, making Birmingham the seventh busiest UK airport.