Nonstop flight route between Manchester, United Kingdom and Katowice / Pyrzowice, Poland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Manchester Airport (MAN), Manchester, United Kingdom and Katowice International Airport (KTW), Katowice / Pyrzowice, Poland would travel a Great Circle distance of 928 miles (or 1,493 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 Manchester Airport and Katowice International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Manchester Airport (MAN):

• The closest airport to Manchester Airport (MAN) is Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL), which is located 24 miles (38 kilometers) W of MAN.
• Manchester also offers more destinations than some of the biggest airports in the U.S.A., including New York-JFK, although it is still slightly behind the three biggest 'hubs' in the global aviation network – Atlanta, Frankfurt am Main and Amsterdam – which each offer more than 250 destinations.
• In 1972, the M56 motorway opened to the airport.
• Terminal 2 is due to receive a major extension, to encompass current remote stands to the west.
• Because of Manchester Airport's relatively low elevation of 257 feet, planes can take off or land at Manchester 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.
• Manchester Airport has three passenger terminals.
• The terminal has 29 stands, of which 15 have air bridges, and is the largest of the three terminals.
• Manchester Airport (MAN) has 2 runways.
• More recently British Airways have scaled down operations from the Manchester Airport with the sale of their BA Connect subsidiary to Flybe.
• Manchester Airport handled 20,751,581 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Manchester Airport (MAN) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,824 miles (19,029 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

Facts about Katowice International Airport (KTW):

• The furthest airport from Katowice International Airport (KTW) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,576 miles (18,630 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Katowice International Airport (KTW) currently has only 1 runway.
• From 1945 to 1951, Soviet Army's soldiers were stationed at the airbase.
• The closest airport to Katowice International Airport (KTW) is John Paul II International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK), which is located 41 miles (67 kilometers) SE of KTW.
• Because of Katowice International Airport's relatively low elevation of 304 feet, planes can take off or land at Katowice 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.
• There is currently no passenger rail link to airport but building of a railway between Katowice and the airport is being planned.
• In addition to being known as "Katowice International Airport", other names for KTW include "Międzynarodowy Port Lotniczy Katowice" and "Katowice".