Nonstop flight route between Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil and San Diego / El Cajon, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport (JOI), Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil and Gillespie Field (SEE), San Diego / El Cajon, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,057 miles (or 9,748 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 Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport and Gillespie Field, 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 Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport and Gillespie Field. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport (JOI):

• The furthest airport from Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport (JOI) is Kitadaito Airport (KTD), which is nearly antipodal to Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport (meaning Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Kitadaito Airport), and is located 12,416 miles (19,982 kilometers) away in Kitadaito, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
• The closest airport to Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport (JOI) is Navegantes Airport (NVT), which is located 46 miles (74 kilometers) SSE of JOI.
• Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport handled 423,114 passengers last year.
• In addition to being known as "Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport", another name for JOI is "Aeroporto de Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola".
• Because of Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport's relatively low elevation of 13 feet, planes can take off or land at Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola 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.
• Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport (JOI) currently has only 1 runway.
• The new terminal building was opened on March 8, 2004.

Facts about Gillespie Field (SEE):

• The closest airport to Gillespie Field (SEE) is Montgomery Field (MYF), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) W of SEE.
• In 1942 the United States Marine Corps chose a 688-acre site east of San Diego for parachute training for the newly forming Parachute battalions.
• Gillespie Field (SEE) has 3 runways.
• Because of Gillespie Field's relatively low elevation of 388 feet, planes can take off or land at Gillespie Field 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 furthest airport from Gillespie Field (SEE) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,534 miles (18,562 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• In February 1944, the camp was commissioned as Marine Corps Auxiliary Airfield Gillespie under the command of Marine Corps Air Station El Toro.