Nonstop flight route between Leipzig, Germany and Berlin, Germany:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ), Leipzig, Germany and Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF), Berlin, Germany would travel a Great Circle distance of 88 miles (or 141 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 relatively short distance between Leipzig/Halle Airport and Berlin Tempelhof Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ):

• The closest airport to Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) is Leipzig–Altenburg Airport (AOC), which is located 33 miles (53 kilometers) SSE of LEJ.
• Leipzig/Halle Airport railway station is located directly beneath the passenger terminal and has national connections to cities like Magdeburg, Hanover, Cologne and Dresden.
• Because of Leipzig/Halle Airport's relatively low elevation of 470 feet, planes can take off or land at Leipzig/Halle 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.
• The furthest airport from Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,774 miles (18,948 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) has 2 runways.
• Leipzig/Halle Airport handled 2,286,151 passengers last year.
• In addition to being known as "Leipzig/Halle Airport", another name for LEJ is "Flughafen Leipzig/Halle".
• On 18 March 1986 a Concorde operated by Air France landed at Leipzig/Halle Airport for the first time due to the internationally known Leipzig trade fair.

Facts about Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF):

• The furthest airport from Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,687 miles (18,808 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The site of the airport was originally Knights Templar land in medieval Berlin, and from this beginning came the name Tempelhof.
• Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF) has 2 runways.
• Following the end of the Berlin Blockade, AOA launched additional dedicated scheduled domestic services linking Tempelhof with Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel and Düsseldorf Lohausen from 6 March and 1 June 1950 respectively.
• The grass runways usual in Germany until then could not cope with the massive demand, and a subsequently built runway containing perforated steel matting began to crumble under the weight of the USAF's C-54 Skymasters.
• Fearing Allied bombing of airports, all German civil aviation was halted on 2 September 1939, but gradually restarted from 1 November.
• Tempelhof Airport closed all operations on 30 October 2008, despite the efforts of some protesters to prevent the closure.
• Berlin Tempelhof Airport was one of the airports in Berlin, Germany.
• In addition to being known as "Berlin Tempelhof Airport", another name for THF is "Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof".
• The closest airport to Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF) is Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL), which is located only 8 miles (12 kilometers) NW of THF.
• Because of Berlin Tempelhof Airport's relatively low elevation of 164 feet, planes can take off or land at Berlin Tempelhof 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.
• Operation Vittles, as the airlift was unofficially named, began on 26 June when USAF Douglas C-47 Skytrains carried 80 tons of food into Tempelhof, far less than the estimated 4,500 tons of food, coal and other essential supplies needed daily to maintain a minimum level of existence.