Nonstop flight route between Enfidha, Tunisia and Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport (NBE), Enfidha, Tunisia and RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,227 miles (or 1,975 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 relatively short distance between Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport and RAF Lakenheath, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport (NBE):

• The furthest airport from Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport (NBE) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,790 miles (18,974 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Construction began in 2007 and the airport opened on 1 December 2009 with the first flight on 4 December 2009.
• Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport (NBE) currently has only 1 runway.
• Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport handled 210,000 passengers last year.
• In addition to being known as "Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport", other names for NBE include "Aéroport international d'Enfidha-Hammamet", "مطار النفيضة حمامات الدولي" and "Maṭār an-Nafīḍah Ḥammāmāt ad-Duwalī".
• Enfidha Airport was originally planned as a second hub for Tunisair, but the airline stated that only occasional charter flights would be operated.
• Construction of the projected Enfidha Airport started in July 2007 by TAV Airports, which had submitted its offer in 2004.
• The closest airport to Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport (NBE) is Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport (MIR), which is located 28 miles (45 kilometers) SE of NBE.

Facts about RAF Lakenheath (LKZ):

• The closest airport to RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is RAF Mildenhall (MHZ), which is located only 4 miles (7 kilometers) SW of LKZ.
• The first use of Lakenheath Warren as a Royal Flying Corps airfield was in World War I, when the area was made into a bombing and ground-attack range for aircraft flying from elsewhere in the area.
• The increasing tension of the Cold War lead to a re-evaluation of these deployments, and by 1953 SAC bombers began to move its heavy bomb groups further west, behind RAF fighter forces, to RAF Brize Norton, RAF Greenham Common, RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Fairford, while its shorter-range B-47 were sent to East Anglia.
• By the time construction ended the war with Germany was over and RAF Lakenheath was put on a care and maintenance status.
• The furthest airport from RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,827 miles (19,034 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Although an RAF station, it hosts United States Air Force units and personnel.