Nonstop flight route between London, England, United Kingdom and Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Gatwick Airport (LGW), London, England, United Kingdom and Wenzhou Longwan International Airport (WNZ), Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,907 miles (or 9,506 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 Wenzhou Longwan 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 Wenzhou Longwan 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):

• Gatwick Airport (LGW) has 2 runways.
• BEA Helicopters made Gatwick their administrative and engineering base on 1 January 1964.
• The closest airport to Gatwick Airport (LGW) is Redhill Aerodrome (KRH), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) NNE of LGW.
• The first scheduled flight departed from the Beehive terminal on 17 May 1936, bound for Paris.
• Gatwick Airport handled 35,444,206 passengers last year.
• 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.
• 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.
• The third extension to Gatwick's runway was completed in 1973, bringing it to 10,165 ft and allowing for non-stop narrow-body operations to the US west coast and commercially viable, long-range wide-body operations.Wardair became the first airline to operate Boeing 747s at Gatwick.KLM augmented its Heathrow–Amsterdam service with a Gatwick–Amsterdam route, making it the first non-UK airline to split operations between Heathrow and Gatwick for commercial reasons rather than to comply with government directives.

Facts about Wenzhou Longwan International Airport (WNZ):

• The airport is located 24 km southeast of the city.
• Wenzhou Longwan International Airport (WNZ) currently has only 1 runway.
• Wenzhou Longwan International Airport handled 5,326,802 passengers last year.
• The airport was opened for civil service on July 12, 1990.
• Wenzhou Longwan International Airport is the airport serving the city of Wenzhou in southern Zhejiang Province, China.
• In addition to being known as "Wenzhou Longwan International Airport", other names for WNZ include "温州龙湾国际机场" and "Wēnzhōu Lóngwān Guójì Jīchǎng".
• The closest airport to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport (WNZ) is Taizhou Luqiao Airport (HYN), which is located 57 miles (92 kilometers) NE of WNZ.
• The furthest airport from Wenzhou Longwan International Airport (WNZ) is Resistencia International Airport (RES), which is nearly antipodal to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport (meaning Wenzhou Longwan International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Resistencia International Airport), and is located 12,404 miles (19,963 kilometers) away in Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina.