Nonstop flight route between Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and Seville, Spain:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Essendon Airport (MEB), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and Seville Airport (SVQ), Seville, Spain would travel a Great Circle distance of 10,844 miles (or 17,452 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 Essendon Airport and Seville 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 Essendon Airport and Seville Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Essendon Airport (MEB):

• The furthest airport from Essendon Airport (MEB) is Flores Airport (FLW), which is nearly antipodal to Essendon Airport (meaning Essendon Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Flores Airport), and is located 12,192 miles (19,620 kilometers) away in Flores Island, Azores, Portugal.
• Essendon Airport (MEB) has 2 runways.
• The major passenger airlines using Essendon in the postwar years until scheduled air services were transferred to Tullamarine were Ansett Airlines and Trans Australia Airlines.
• Essendon became Australia's second, and Melbourne's first international airport in February 1950.
• The 1920s period saw the great pioneering aviation flights of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith who visited the airport on several occasions.
• The closest airport to Essendon Airport (MEB) is Melbourne Airport (MEL), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) NW of MEB.
• In addition to being known as "Essendon Airport", another name for MEB is "Melbourne/Essendon".
• The airfield itself also has undergone a major upgrade with the installation of lighting and signage systems to bring the airport to International Civil Aviation Organization standards.
• Because of Essendon Airport's relatively low elevation of 282 feet, planes can take off or land at Essendon 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.

Facts about Seville Airport (SVQ):

• The closest airport to Seville Airport (SVQ) is Jerez Airport (XRY), which is located 47 miles (76 kilometers) S of SVQ.
• Seville Airport handled 428,748 passengers last year.
• Seville Airport (SVQ) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Seville Airport (SVQ) is Auckland Airport (AKL), which is nearly antipodal to Seville Airport (meaning Seville Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Auckland Airport), and is located 12,389 miles (19,939 kilometers) away in Mangere, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Seville Airport", another name for SVQ is "Aeropuerto de Sevilla".
• In 1914, the first plane flying between the peninsula and Morocco landed at the improvised aerodrome of Tablada, which had been fitted out the previous year for an air festival.
• Because of Seville Airport's relatively low elevation of 112 feet, planes can take off or land at Seville 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.
• In 1965 an Instrument Landing System was installed.
• Travelling by Taxi is a low cost and convenient way to get from the airport to the city centre, especially if you have a family or a lot of luggage.
• During the Spanish civil war, Seville became the arrival point for African troops, whilst Iberia served air transport with flights between Tetuán-Seville-Vitoria, Seville-Salamanca and Seville-Larache-Las Palmas.