Nonstop flight route between Middle Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands and Amman, Jordan:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Middle Caicos Airport (MDS), Middle Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands and Queen Alia International Airport (AMM), Amman, Jordan would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,400 miles (or 10,300 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 Middle Caicos Airport and Queen Alia International 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 Middle Caicos Airport and Queen Alia International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Middle Caicos Airport (MDS):

• Middle Caicos Airport (MDS) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Middle Caicos Airport's relatively low elevation of 9 feet, planes can take off or land at Middle Caicos 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.
• The closest airport to Middle Caicos Airport (MDS) is North Caicos Airport (NCA), which is located only 11 miles (17 kilometers) NW of MDS.
• The furthest airport from Middle Caicos Airport (MDS) is RAAF Learmonth (LEA), which is nearly antipodal to Middle Caicos Airport (meaning Middle Caicos Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from RAAF Learmonth), and is located 12,058 miles (19,406 kilometers) away in Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia.

Facts about Queen Alia International Airport (AMM):

• Through the BOT Public-Private Partnership framework, the Government retains ownership of the airport and receives 54.47% of the airport's gross revenues for the first six years, and 54.64% of the gross revenues for the remaining 19 years of the agreement's 25-year term.
• The building layout is specially set up to facilitate passenger traffic flow, allowing easy access to the boarding lounge and shopping areas, both of which are located directly from the security checkpoint.
• Queen Alia International Airport handled 650,200 passengers last year.
• The Jordanian Ministry of Transport undertook to build a new international airport with sufficient capacity to cope with demand in the foreseeable future.
• The airport has two lounges, one operated by Royal Jordanian for business and first class passengers, and the other exclusively run by telecom operator Zain Jordan for its VIP customers.
• Queen Alia International Airport (AMM) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Queen Alia International Airport (AMM) is Rurutu Airport (RUR), which is located 11,652 miles (18,752 kilometers) away in Rurutu, French Polynesia.
• The airport is connected to Amman by Sariyah shuttle buses that ply back and forth around the clock between Amman and the airport every 30 minutes.
• Airport International Group is a Jordanian company that gathers regional investors and international experts in construction and airport operations to rehabilitate, expand and operate Queen Alia International Airport under a 25-year Build-Operate-Transfer concession agreement.
• In addition to being known as "Queen Alia International Airport", other names for AMM include "مطار الملكة علياء الدولي" and "Matar al-Malikah 'Alya' ad-Dowaly".
• The closest airport to Queen Alia International Airport (AMM) is Amman Civil Airport (ADJ), which is located only 17 miles (28 kilometers) N of AMM.