Nonstop flight route between London, England, United Kingdom and Yonaguni, Okinawa, Japan:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Gatwick Airport (LGW), London, England, United Kingdom and Yonaguni Airport (OGN), Yonaguni, Okinawa, Japan would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,178 miles (or 9,943 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 Gatwick Airport and Yonaguni 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 Gatwick Airport and Yonaguni Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Gatwick Airport (LGW):

• Gatwick Airport handled 35,444,206 passengers last year.
• Gatwick Airport (LGW) has 2 runways.
• Because of Gatwick Airport's relatively low elevation of 203 feet, planes can take off or land at Gatwick 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.
• Despite the rapid expansion of BUA's scheduled activities at Gatwick, the airport was dominated by non-scheduled services into the 1980s.
• In 1935, a new airline, Allied British Airways, was formed with the merger of Hillman's Airways, United Airways and Spartan Airways.
• The furthest airport from Gatwick Airport (LGW) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,901 miles (19,152 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• On 27 May 1958, the original Gatwick railway station reopened as the Gatwick Airport station, and the Tinsley Green station was closed.
• The closest airport to Gatwick Airport (LGW) is Redhill Aerodrome (KRH), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) NNE of LGW.
• In November 1972, Laker Airways became the first operator of wide-body aircraft at Gatwick after the introduction of two McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-10 aircraft.

Facts about Yonaguni Airport (OGN):

• In addition to being known as "Yonaguni Airport", other names for OGN include "Yonaguni Jima Airport", "与那国空港" and "Yonaguni Kūkō".
• Because of Yonaguni Airport's relatively low elevation of 49 feet, planes can take off or land at Yonaguni 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.
• Yonaguni Airport (OGN) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Yonaguni Airport (OGN) is Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU), which is nearly antipodal to Yonaguni Airport (meaning Yonaguni Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Silvio Pettirossi International Airport), and is located 12,375 miles (19,916 kilometers) away in Asunción, Paraguay.
• The closest airport to Yonaguni Airport (OGN) is Hateruma Airport (HTR), which is located 59 miles (95 kilometers) ESE of OGN.