Nonstop flight route between Munich, Bavaria, Germany and Kenai, Alaska, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Munich Airport (MUC), Munich, Bavaria, Germany and Kenai Municipal Airport (ENA), Kenai, Alaska, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,851 miles (or 7,807 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 Kenai Municipal 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 Kenai Municipal 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):

• Terminal 1 currently handles all flights from airlines that are not members of Star Alliance.
• The airport is located 28.5 km northeast of Munich near the old city of Freising and is named in memory of the former Bavarian Prime minister Franz Josef Strauss.
• While according to ICAO Regulations the new runway would have to be named 08L/26R, it is currently assigned the working title 09/27 in all plans.
• Munich Airport handled 38,672,644 passengers last year.
• Naming the airport by its full name "Flughafen München Franz Josef Strauß" is fairly uncommon.
• 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.
• The closest airport to Munich Airport (MUC) is Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (FEL), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) WSW of MUC.
• In addition to being known as "Munich Airport", another name for MUC is "Flughafen München".
• 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 airport is named after Franz Josef Strauß, who played a prominent, albeit sometimes controversial role in politics of the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1950s until his death in 1988.
• Munich Airport (MUC) has 2 runways.
• The 1,081 m pier features 21 jet bridges, two of which have been rebuilt into waiting halls for bus transfers.

Facts about Kenai Municipal Airport (ENA):

• The closest airport to Kenai Municipal Airport (ENA) is Soldotna Airport (SXQ), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) SE of ENA.
• The furthest airport from Kenai Municipal Airport (ENA) is Port Elizabeth International Airport (PLZ), which is located 10,594 miles (17,050 kilometers) away in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
• Because of Kenai Municipal Airport's relatively low elevation of 99 feet, planes can take off or land at Kenai Municipal 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.
• Kenai Municipal Airport (ENA) has 3 runways.