Nonstop flight route between Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain and Bergen, Norway:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Gran Canaria Airport (LPA), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain and Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO), Bergen, Norway would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,435 miles (or 3,919 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 Gran Canaria Airport and Bergen-Flesland International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Gran Canaria Airport (LPA):

• In 1919, Frenchman Pierre George Latécoère was granted clearance from the French & Spanish governments to establish an airline route between Toulouse & Casablanca.
• In addition to being known as "Gran Canaria Airport", another name for LPA is "Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria".
• The furthest airport from Gran Canaria Airport (LPA) is Norfolk Island Airport (NLK), which is nearly antipodal to Gran Canaria Airport (meaning Gran Canaria Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Norfolk Island Airport), and is located 12,221 miles (19,667 kilometers) away in Norfolk Island, Australia.
• Gran Canaria Airport (LPA) has 2 runways.
• Currently Gran Canaria airport is under renovation.
• The closest airport to Gran Canaria Airport (LPA) is Tenerife North Airport (TFN), which is located 69 miles (112 kilometers) WNW of LPA.
• Because of Gran Canaria Airport's relatively low elevation of 78 feet, planes can take off or land at Gran Canaria 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.
• Gran Canaria Airport handled 9,770,253 passengers last year.
• The airport can be reached by several island roads from all points in the island.

Facts about Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO):

• In addition to being known as "Bergen-Flesland International Airport", another name for BGO is "Bergen lufthavn, Flesland".
• Wanderlust announced Flesland as Europe's best and the world's sixth-best international airport in 2009.
• The first four regional airports in Sogn og Fjordane and Møre og Romsdal were opened in 1971 and Widerøe started flights to Florø, Førde, Sogndal and Ørsta/Volda.
• The closest airport to Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO) is Stord Airport, Sørstokken (SRP), which is located 35 miles (56 kilometers) S of BGO.
• The airport had 70,000 passengers during its first twelve months of operations and exceeded 100,000 the following year.
• Bergen Airport serves 63 destinations, of which 19 are domestic, 34 are international and 16 are charter.
• The Civil Aviation Administration started working on plans for an airport for Bergen in 1947.
• The current terminal opened in 1988, was also designed by Halfdan Grieg and cost NOK 250 million.
• Helikopter Service established itself at Flesland in 1958, two years after the Stavanger-based company was established.
• The furthest airport from Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,296 miles (18,179 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Engineering reports were made of both Herdla and Flesland in 1950 and 1951.
• Because of Bergen-Flesland International Airport's relatively low elevation of 166 feet, planes can take off or land at Bergen-Flesland 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.
• Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO) currently has only 1 runway.
• Bergen-Flesland International Airport handled 6,213,960 passengers last year.