Nonstop flight route between Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Fort Collins/Loveland, Colorado, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Kindu Airport (KND), Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL), Fort Collins/Loveland, Colorado, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 8,434 miles (or 13,573 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 Kindu Airport and Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal 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 Kindu Airport and Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Kindu Airport (KND):

• In addition to being known as "Kindu Airport", another name for KND is "Aéroport de Kindu".
• The closest airport to Kindu Airport (KND) is Lodja Airport (LJA), which is located 174 miles (279 kilometers) W of KND.
• Kindu Airport (KND) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Kindu Airport (KND) is Cassidy International Airport (CXI), which is nearly antipodal to Kindu Airport (meaning Kindu Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Cassidy International Airport), and is located 12,202 miles (19,638 kilometers) away in Christmas Island, Kiribati.

Facts about Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL):

• Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL) has 2 runways.
• The closest airport to Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL) is Greeley-Weld County Airport (GXY), which is located only 20 miles (32 kilometers) E of FNL.
• The furthest airport from Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,850 miles (17,462 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Because of Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport's high elevation of 5,016 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at FNL. Combined with a high temperature, this could make FNL a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The airport was served by Allegiant Air until October 2012.
• FNL is jointly owned and operated by the two cities of Loveland and Fort Collins.
• Fort Collins–Loveland Municipal Airport is a public use airport located nine nautical miles southeast of the central business district of Fort Collins and northeast of Loveland, both cities in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
• As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 31,094 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 31,079 enplanements in 2009, and 35,671 in 2010.