Nonstop flight route between Munich, Bavaria, Germany and Qamdo Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Munich Airport (MUC), Munich, Bavaria, Germany and Qamdo Bamda Airport (BPX), Qamdo Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,474 miles (or 7,200 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 Munich Airport and Qamdo Bamda 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 Munich Airport and Qamdo Bamda 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 Munich Airport (MUC):

• Munich Airport handled 38,672,644 passengers last year.
• Terminal 2 has two main departure level, 04 and 05 and additional bus gates on the lower level 03.
• Munich Airport (MUC) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Munich Airport (MUC) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,933 miles (19,204 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Construction for the satellite building has started in 2012 and will be completed by 2015.
• The airport authorities have set out to cater for visitors and sight-seers by creating a 'Visitors Park' which includes a 'Visitors Hill' from which a good view can be obtained of the westerly aircraft apron and Terminal 1.
• While Terminal 1 still has plenty of capacity left – in 2007, it only handled about 9 m passengers – the extension of Terminal 2 is required by Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners to allow easy transfers within a single terminal.
• The 1,081 m pier features 21 jet bridges, two of which have been rebuilt into waiting halls for bus transfers.
• In June 2003, Terminal 2 was finished, housing Star Alliance partners exclusively.
• In addition to being known as "Munich Airport", another name for MUC is "Flughafen München".
• Due to security regulations imposed by the European Union, the terminal has been equipped with facilities to handle passengers from countries considered insecure, i.e.
• The closest airport to Munich Airport (MUC) is Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (FEL), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) WSW of MUC.
• From 1939 to 1992, Munich was served by Munich-Riem Airport.

Facts about Qamdo Bamda Airport (BPX):

• The furthest airport from Qamdo Bamda Airport (BPX) is Viña del Mar Airport (KNA), which is located 11,747 miles (18,904 kilometers) away in Viña del Mar, Chile.
• In addition to being known as "Qamdo Bamda Airport", other names for BPX include "昌都邦达机场" and "Chāngdū Bāngdá Jīchǎng".
• Qamdo Bamda Airport (BPX) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Qamdo Bamda Airport's high elevation of 14,436 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at BPX. Combined with a high temperature, this could make BPX a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The closest airport to Qamdo Bamda Airport (BPX) is Yushu Batang Airport (YUS), which is located 158 miles (254 kilometers) N of BPX.
• The airport is 2.5 hours by mountain road from the county seat of Qamdo.
• Qamdo Bamda Airport, also known as Changdu Bangda Airport, is an airport serving Qamdo, Tibet, China.