Nonstop flight route between Lamar, Colorado, United States and Southend, Essex (near London) United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Lamar Municipal Airport (LAA), Lamar, Colorado, United States and London Southend Airport (SEN), Southend, Essex (near London) United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,719 miles (or 7,594 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 Lamar Municipal Airport and London Southend 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 Lamar Municipal Airport and London Southend Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Lamar Municipal Airport (LAA):

• The airport covers 557 acres at an elevation of 3,706 feet.
• The closest airport to Lamar Municipal Airport (LAA) is Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB), which is located 99 miles (160 kilometers) W of LAA.
• The furthest airport from Lamar Municipal Airport (LAA) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,920 miles (17,574 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Lamar Municipal Airport (LAA) has 2 runways.

Facts about London Southend Airport (SEN):

• London Southend Airport handled 969,912 passengers last year.
• The first seafront Airshow took place on 26 May 1986, and was the first of 27 successive annual displays, the last being in 2012.
• Southend was voted the best airport in Britain by the consumer group Which?
• London Southend Airport (SEN) currently has only 1 runway.
• East Anglian Flying Services moved to Southend on 5 January 1947, their first scheduled service being a Southend—Rochester feeder service.
• Southend Airport has an excellent weather record and is used by airlines as a diversion alternative when adverse weather or incidents close other London airports.
• The closest airport to London Southend Airport (SEN) is Rochester Airport (RCS), which is located only 17 miles (28 kilometers) SSW of SEN.
• Freddie Laker's Air Charter Limited operated flights from Southend from 1949.
• The furthest airport from London Southend Airport (SEN) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,885 miles (19,126 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In 1946, the airfield was decommissioned from military use and civil aviation returned in 1947, as did the Southend Municipal Airport name.
• Because of London Southend Airport's relatively low elevation of 55 feet, planes can take off or land at London Southend 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.
• Construction of the current terminal was completed in February 2012, and hosts two cafés, a bar, duty-free shopping, a W H Smith newsagent, ATMs, a Moneycorp bureau de change, taxi hire, car hire from Europcar and Hertz, and an airport lounge.