Nonstop flight route between Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States and Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Crater Lake- Klamath Regional Airport (LMT), Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States and Gold Coast Airport (OOL), Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,248 miles (or 11,664 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 Crater Lake- Klamath Regional Airport and Gold Coast 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 Crater Lake- Klamath Regional Airport and Gold Coast Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Crater Lake- Klamath Regional Airport (LMT):

• In late 2010 Skywest dropped one flight to Portland.
• Until 1959 United Airlines served Klamath Falls with Douglas DC-3s and Convair 340s.
• The closest airport to Crater Lake- Klamath Regional Airport (LMT) is Chiloquin State Airport (CHZ), which is located 30 miles (49 kilometers) NNW of LMT.
• The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport since it has over 10,000 passenger boardings per year.Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 15,856 enplanements in 2011, a decrease from 21,353 in 2010.
• Because of Crater Lake- Klamath Regional Airport's high elevation of 4,095 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at LMT. Combined with a high temperature, this could make LMT a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The furthest airport from Crater Lake- Klamath Regional Airport (LMT) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,090 miles (17,847 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• In addition to being known as "Crater Lake- Klamath Regional Airport", another name for LMT is "Kingsley Field".
• Crater Lake- Klamath Regional Airport is in Klamath County, Oregon five miles southeast of Klamath Falls, which owns it.
• Crater Lake- Klamath Regional Airport (LMT) has 2 runways.

Facts about Gold Coast Airport (OOL):

• Gold Coast Airport handled 5,261,773 passengers last year.
• Because of Gold Coast Airport's relatively low elevation of 21 feet, planes can take off or land at Gold Coast 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.
• For the 2010–11 financial year, Gold Coast Airport was the sixth busiest airport in Australia in terms of passengers and eighth in aircraftmovements.
• On 22 September 2008 it was announced that Air Pacific will expand its services to Australia with the introduction of twice weekly flights between Nadi, Fiji and the Gold Coast commencing in December 2008.
• Gold Coast Airport (OOL) has 2 runways.
• The closest airport to Gold Coast Airport (OOL) is Ballina Byron Gateway Airport (BNK), which is located 46 miles (75 kilometers) S of OOL.
• The furthest airport from Gold Coast Airport (OOL) is La Palma Airport (SPC), which is located 11,905 miles (19,159 kilometers) away in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.
• The airport opened an extension to the main runway as well as a full length parallel taxiway in May 2007.
• On 13 August 2012 Qantas announced that it will return to Gold Coast, flying from Sydney three times daily using a Boeing 737-800.