Nonstop flight route between Guiyang, Guizhou, China and Ruislip, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport (KWE), Guiyang, Guizhou, China and RAF Northolt (NHT), Ruislip, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,481 miles (or 8,820 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 Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport and RAF Northolt, 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 Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport and RAF Northolt. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

Departure Airport Information:

Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport (KWE):

• Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport (KWE) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport (KWE) is Chañaral Airport (CNR), which is nearly antipodal to Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport (meaning Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chañaral Airport), and is located 12,276 miles (19,756 kilometers) away in Chañaral, Atacama Region, Chile.
• Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport handled 7,339,229 passengers last year.
• In addition to being known as "Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport", other names for KWE include "贵阳龙洞堡国际机场" and "Guìyáng Lóngdòngbǎo Guójì Jīchǎng".
• The closest airport to Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport (KWE) is Anshun Huangguoshu Airport (AVA), which is located 61 miles (97 kilometers) WSW of KWE.
• in 2011, Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport was the 25th busiest airport in the People's Republic of China with 7,339,229 passengers.
• Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport is an airport serving Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province in southwestern China.

Facts about RAF Northolt (NHT):

• Four Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft arrived at the station from RAF Coningsby on 2 May 2012 to take part in a security exercise as part of preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
• Starting in 1946 the airfield was used by civil aviation during the construction of nearby Heathrow Airport.
• Thirty Allied airmen including servicemen from Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, New Zealand, Poland and the United Kingdom were killed flying from RAF Northolt during the Battle of Britain, of whom ten were Polish.
• Following Louis Blériot's first flight across the English Channel in 1909, the British Army considered the necessity of defending the United Kingdom from a future air attack.
• The furthest airport from RAF Northolt (NHT) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,871 miles (19,105 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to RAF Northolt (NHT) is London Heathrow Airport (LHR), which is located only 6 miles (9 kilometers) SSW of NHT.
• Much media attention focused on the airfield when the body of Diana, Princess of Wales, arrived there from Villacoublay airfield, in Paris, France, after her death in a car crash in the city on 31 August 1997.
• In August 1996, a Spanish Learjet operated by Mar Aviation overshot runway 25 and collided with a van heading eastward on the A40 Western Avenue.