Nonstop flight route between Klagenfurt, Austria and Invercargill, New Zealand:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Klagenfurt Airport (KLU), Klagenfurt, Austria and Invercargill Airport (IVC), Invercargill, New Zealand would travel a Great Circle distance of 11,205 miles (or 18,033 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 Klagenfurt Airport and Invercargill 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 Klagenfurt Airport and Invercargill Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Klagenfurt Airport (KLU):

• Klagenfurt Airport, also known as Kärnten Airport, is the airport of Klagenfurt, the sixth-largest city in Austria.
• In addition to being known as "Klagenfurt Airport", another name for KLU is "Kärnten Airport".
• In World War I and II, the airport of Klagenfurt was operated as a military airfield, and indeed Klagenfurt Airport was founded in 1914 as a military airport.
• Klagenfurt Airport (KLU) has 2 runways.
• Klagenfurt Airport consists of one small passenger terminal building which features some shops and restaurants as well as a visitors terrace.
• The furthest airport from Klagenfurt Airport (KLU) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,877 miles (19,114 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In 1905, Georg Count of Khevenhüller from Hochosterwitz Castle and in 1907 Dipl.-Ing.
• The closest airport to Klagenfurt Airport (KLU) is Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU), which is located 29 miles (47 kilometers) S of KLU.

Facts about Invercargill Airport (IVC):

• Since July 2012, Air New Zealand has used Invercargill as a technical stop when conditions in Queenstown restrict aircraft from taking off with sufficient fuel to fly direct to Australia due to weather or operational reasons.
• The closest airport to Invercargill Airport (IVC) is Ryan's Creek Aerodrome (SZS), which is located 35 miles (57 kilometers) SSW of IVC.
• Invercargill Airport handled 27,092 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Invercargill Airport (IVC) is A Coruña Airport (LCG), which is nearly antipodal to Invercargill Airport (meaning Invercargill Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from A Coruña Airport), and is located 12,168 miles (19,582 kilometers) away in A Coruña, Spain.
• Regular jet services operated into the airport until 1995, when Air New Zealand restructured all its secondary provincial routes after subsidiary Mount Cook Airline introduced the 68 seat ATR 72-200 into service.
• Because of Invercargill Airport's relatively low elevation of 5 feet, planes can take off or land at Invercargill 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.
• When the Government nationalized all airlines to create NAC in 1947, the Electra service was replaced by de Havilland DH.89s.
• Invercargill Airport (IVC) has 4 runways.