Nonstop flight route between London, England, United Kingdom and Puerto Montt, Chile:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Gatwick Airport (LGW), London, England, United Kingdom and El Tepual International Airport (PMC), Puerto Montt, Chile would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,749 miles (or 12,471 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 El Tepual International 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 El Tepual International 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):

• Between 1958 and 1959, Sudan Airways and BWIA West Indies Airways were among Gatwick's first scheduled overseas airlines.
• 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.
• Two fatal accidents occurred, raising questions about the airport's safety.
• Gatwick Airport (LGW) has 2 runways.
• The Redwing Aircraft Company bought the aerodrome in 1932, and operated a flying school.
• The closest airport to Gatwick Airport (LGW) is Redhill Aerodrome (KRH), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) NNE of LGW.
• 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.
• Gatwick Airport handled 35,444,206 passengers last year.
• On 1 April 1961, BEA began operating half its London–Paris flights from Gatwick.
• British Caledonian began the first transatlantic scheduled service by a private UK airline to New York and Los Angeles from Gatwick in April 1973.

Facts about El Tepual International Airport (PMC):

• El Tepual International Airport handled 1,000,000 passengers last year.
• LAN Airlines, as Lan Chile is currently known, has kept on operating services regularly at the airport along with more recent startups such as Sky Airline, with a number of charter airlines also flying to El Tepual.
• El Tepual International Airport (PMC) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to El Tepual International Airport (PMC) is Frutillar Airport (FRT), which is located 21 miles (34 kilometers) N of PMC.
• Because of El Tepual International Airport's relatively low elevation of 294 feet, planes can take off or land at El Tepual International 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 El Tepual International Airport (PMC) is Wuhai Airport (WUA), which is nearly antipodal to El Tepual International Airport (meaning El Tepual International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Wuhai Airport), and is located 12,323 miles (19,832 kilometers) away in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China.
• In 2004, the IDC estimated that one million passengers passed through the airport's gates, making it Chile's second busiest.
• In addition to being known as "El Tepual International Airport", another name for PMC is "Aeropuerto Internacional El Tepual".
• El Tepual International Airport is a commercial and private aviation facility which serves the touristic area of Puerto Montt, Chile.