Nonstop flight route between Miyakejima, Japan and Santa Barbara, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Miyakejima Airport (MYE), Miyakejima, Japan and Santa Barbara Airport (SBA), Santa Barbara, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,457 miles (or 8,783 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 Miyakejima Airport and Santa Barbara 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 Miyakejima Airport and Santa Barbara Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Miyakejima Airport (MYE):

• The furthest airport from Miyakejima Airport (MYE) is Diomício Freitas/Forquilhinha Airport (CCM), which is located 11,791 miles (18,976 kilometers) away in Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
• Miyakejima Airport (MYE) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Miyakejima Airport (MYE) is Hachijojima Airport (HAC), which is located 67 miles (109 kilometers) S of MYE.
• Because of Miyakejima Airport's relatively low elevation of 65 feet, planes can take off or land at Miyakejima 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 "Miyakejima Airport", other names for MYE include "三宅島空港" and "Miyakejima Kūkō".

Facts about Santa Barbara Airport (SBA):

• With the outbreak of WWII the airport became MCAS Santa Barbara in 1942, an aviator training base for the U.S Marines.
• As airplane manufacturing grew in the late 1930s that airstrip developed into an airfield.
• Because of Santa Barbara Airport's relatively low elevation of 10 feet, planes can take off or land at Santa Barbara 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 furthest airport from Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,487 miles (18,486 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• The United Airlines system timetable dated February 1, 1937 listed daily round trip service flown with a Douglas DC-3 twin prop aircraft on a routing of Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-San Francisco-Oakland.
• The closest airport to Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) is Santa Ynez Airport (SQA), which is located only 18 miles (29 kilometers) NW of SBA.
• As the prospect of war escalated the United States Government established a program to construct 250 airports across the country on a cost-sharing basis with local governments.
• The largest passenger jet currently serving Santa Barbara is the Airbus A319 operated by Frontier Airlines nonstop to Denver.
• Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) has 3 runways.