Nonstop flight route between Munich, Bavaria, Germany and Osaka, Japan:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Munich Airport (MUC), Munich, Bavaria, Germany and Kansai International Airport (KIX), Osaka, Japan would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,740 miles (or 9,238 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 Kansai 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 Munich Airport and Kansai 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 Munich Airport (MUC):

• 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.
• Munich Airport (MUC) has 2 runways.
• Due to the rapid increase in traffic Munich is currently slot constrained and a third runway is now being planned.
• Munich Airport handled 38,672,644 passengers last year.
• The Franz-Josef Strauss Airport has two parallel runways and one helipad.
• The pier, which is 980 m long, is equipped with 24 jet bridges.
• In addition to being known as "Munich Airport", another name for MUC is "Flughafen München".
• Terminal 1 currently handles all flights from airlines that are not members of Star Alliance.
• The closest airport to Munich Airport (MUC) is Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (FEL), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) WSW of MUC.

Facts about Kansai International Airport (KIX):

• The airport authority was allotted 4 billion yen in government support for fiscal year 2013, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Ministry of Finance have agreed to reduce this amount in stages through fiscal year 2015, although local governments in the Kansai region have pressed for continued subsidies.
• Kansai International Airport is an international airport located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, 38 km southwest of Ōsaka Station, located within three municipalities, including Izumisano,Sennan, and Tajiri, in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
• The island had been predicted to sink 5.7 m by the most optimistic estimate as the weight of the material used for construction compressed the seabed silts.
• The second floor of the Passenger Terminal Building is used for domestic departures and arrivals.
• Because of Kansai International Airport's relatively low elevation of 17 feet, planes can take off or land at Kansai 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.
• In addition to being known as "Kansai International Airport", other names for KIX include "関西国際空港" and "Kansai Kokusai Kūkō".
• The closest airport to Kansai International Airport (KIX) is Kobe Airport (UKB), which is located only 14 miles (22 kilometers) N of KIX.
• Construction started in 1987.
• The furthest airport from Kansai International Airport (KIX) is Rio Grande Regional Airport (RIG), which is located 11,980 miles (19,279 kilometers) away in Rio Grande, Brazil.
• Kansai International Airport (KIX) has 2 runways.
• On 17 February 2005, Chubu Centrair International Airport opened in Nagoya, just east of Osaka.
• The second runway opened on 2 August 2007, but with the originally planned terminal portion postponed.
• The merger of the Itami and Kansai airport authorities was completed in July 2012.