Nonstop flight route between La Pedrera, Colombia and Perth, Western Australia, Australia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between La Pedrera Airport (LPD), La Pedrera, Colombia and Perth Airport (PER), Perth, Western Australia, Australia would travel a Great Circle distance of 10,110 miles (or 16,270 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 La Pedrera Airport and Perth 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 La Pedrera Airport and Perth Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

Departure Airport Information:

Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about La Pedrera Airport (LPD):

• In addition to being known as "La Pedrera Airport", another name for LPD is "Aeropuerto de La Pedrera".
• The closest airport to La Pedrera Airport (LPD) is Ipiranga Airport (IPG), which is located 111 miles (179 kilometers) S of LPD.
• The furthest airport from La Pedrera Airport (LPD) is Sematan Airport (BSE), which is nearly antipodal to La Pedrera Airport (meaning La Pedrera Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Sematan Airport), and is located 12,380 miles (19,924 kilometers) away in Sematan, Sarawak, Malaysia.
• La Pedrera Airport (LPD) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Perth Airport (PER):

• At this time also, airline operators Qantas and Ansett set about on ambitious capital works programs to construct new domestic terminals for their respective airlines on the northern side of the terminal, where they still stand to this day.
• Despite military use of the airfield, civil services operated by Qantas Empire Airways and Australian National Airways commenced from the location in 1944.
• In November 1980, the Federal Transport Minister, Ralph Hunt, announced that a new international terminal would be built in Perth at a cost of A$26 million.
• Perth Airport handled 13,664,394 passengers last year.
• Perth Airport (PER) has 2 runways.
• From 1962 onwards, both the domestic and international passenger operations at the airport were provided by a single terminal.
• Passenger numbers have trebled in the past 10 years with more than 12.6 million people travelling through the airport in 2012.
• It was at this time the airport began to experience the full effects of the jet age.
• The furthest airport from Perth Airport (PER) is L.F. Wade International Airport (BDA), which is nearly antipodal to Perth Airport (meaning Perth Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from L.F. Wade International Airport), and is located 12,389 miles (19,938 kilometers) away in Ferry Reach (near Hamilton), Bermuda.
• The closest airport to Perth Airport (PER) is Jandakot Airport (JAD), which is located only 12 miles (19 kilometers) SSW of PER.
• Because of Perth Airport's relatively low elevation of 67 feet, planes can take off or land at Perth 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.