Nonstop flight route between Luxembourg-Findel, Luxembourg and Kokshetau, Kazakhstan:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Luxembourg Airport (LUX), Luxembourg-Findel, Luxembourg and Kokshetau Airport (KOV), Kokshetau, Kazakhstan would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,649 miles (or 4,264 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 Luxembourg Airport and Kokshetau 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 Luxembourg Airport and Kokshetau Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Luxembourg Airport (LUX):

• United States Army combat engineers arrived at Sandweiler in mid September 1944 and performed some minor reconstruction to prepare the airfield for Ninth Air Force combat aircraft.
• Luxair, Luxembourg's international airline, and cargo airline Cargolux have their head offices on the airport property.
• Luxembourg Airport handled 2,197,331 passengers last year.
• Luxembourg Airport has constructed a high-security zone far away from most airport activities in order to attract the business of transporting valuable goods such as art and jewels.
• Luxembourg Airport (LUX) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Luxembourg Airport (LUX) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Luxembourg Airport (meaning Luxembourg Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,016 miles (19,338 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Luxembourg Airport", other names for LUX include "Fluchhafe Lëtzebuerg", "Aéroport de Luxembourg" and "Flughafen Luxemburg".
• The closest airport to Luxembourg Airport (LUX) is Bitburg Airport (BBJ), which is located 27 miles (44 kilometers) NE of LUX.

Facts about Kokshetau Airport (KOV):

• The furthest airport from Kokshetau Airport (KOV) is Teniente Julio Gallardo Airfield (PNT), which is located 10,858 miles (17,475 kilometers) away in Puerto Natales, Chile.
• The closest airport to Kokshetau Airport (KOV) is Petropavl Airport (PPK), which is located 101 miles (163 kilometers) N of KOV.
• Kokshetau Airport (KOV) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Kokshetau Airport's relatively low elevation of 886 feet, planes can take off or land at Kokshetau 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.