Nonstop flight route between Kasama, Zambia and Chennai (Madras), India:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Kasama Airport (KAA), Kasama, Zambia and Chennai International Airport (MAA), Chennai (Madras), India would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,725 miles (or 5,996 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 Kasama Airport and Chennai 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 Kasama Airport and Chennai International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Kasama Airport (KAA):

• Kasama Airport (KAA) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Kasama Airport (KAA) is Hilo International Airport (ITO), which is located 11,662 miles (18,767 kilometers) away in Hilo, Hawaii, United States.
• Because of Kasama Airport's high elevation of 4,542 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at KAA. Combined with a high temperature, this could make KAA a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The closest airport to Kasama Airport (KAA) is Mbala Airport (MMQ), which is located 95 miles (153 kilometers) N of KAA.

Facts about Chennai International Airport (MAA):

• Chennai International Airport (MAA) has 2 runways.
• The Air Cargo Complex at the Chennai airport was established in 1978, when all regulatory and facilitating agencies were brought under one roof for faster processing/clearance of international cargo, to cater for air cargo movement in the southern region.
• In 2009, an integrated cargo complex was planned in the cargo complex of the airport.
• In addition to being known as "Chennai International Airport", another name for MAA is "Madras Airport Meenambakkam Airport சென்னை பன்னாட்டு வானுர்தி நிலையம்".
• An air cargo complex was commissioned on 1 February 1978 for processing of import, export, and transshipment cargo, in addition to unaccompanied luggage, which is the second gateway air cargo terminal in the country after the one at Kolkata airport.
• Because of Chennai International Airport's relatively low elevation of 52 feet, planes can take off or land at Chennai 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.
• Chennai airport has two runways—the 3,658 m long primary runway No.
• The furthest airport from Chennai International Airport (MAA) is Seymour Airport (GPS), which is located 11,351 miles (18,268 kilometers) away in Baltra Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
• The airport currently has 70 parking bays, one of which can accommodate the superjumbo Airbus A380.
• The closest airport to Chennai International Airport (MAA) is Tirupati Airport (TIR), which is located 61 miles (99 kilometers) NW of MAA.
• The international and the domestic terminals cover an area of 1.5 km2 and 1.8 km2, respectively.
• One more test flight was conducted at the Island Grounds in 1914, when J.