Nonstop flight route between Enfidha, Tunisia and Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport (NBE), Enfidha, Tunisia and CFB Goose Bay (YYR), Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,518 miles (or 5,661 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 Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport and CFB Goose Bay, 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 Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport and CFB Goose Bay. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport (NBE):

• 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.
• Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport handled 210,000 passengers last year.
• Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport (NBE) currently has only 1 runway.
• The airport was originally named after the former Tunisian president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
• 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".
• 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.
• Enfidha Airport was originally planned as a second hub for Tunisair, but the airline stated that only occasional charter flights would be operated.

Facts about CFB Goose Bay (YYR):

• Labradorian politicians such as former Liberal Senator Bill Rompkey have advocated using CFB Goose Bay as a site for a missile defense radar system being developed by the United States Department of Defense.
• Because of CFB Goose Bay's relatively low elevation of 160 feet, planes can take off or land at CFB Goose Bay 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 base was initially a Royal Canadian Air Force station and later a United States Air Force base known as Goose AFB, housing units of the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Defense Command.
• In response to lessons learned from the Vietnam War and the growing sophistication of Soviet anti-aircraft radar and surface-to-air missile technology being deployed in Europe, NATO allies began looking at new doctrines in the 1970s–1980s which mandated low-level flight to evade detection.
• While the flat and relatively weather-favored area around North West River had for years been under consideration for an airport for the anticipated North Atlantic air routes, it was not until Eric Fry of the Dominion Geodetic Survey investigated the area on 1 July 1941 that the Goose Bay location was selected.
• The furthest airport from CFB Goose Bay (YYR) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 11,164 miles (17,967 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• In addition to being known as "CFB Goose Bay", another name for YYR is "Goose Bay Airport".
• CFB Goose Bay (YYR) has 2 runways.
• The closest airport to CFB Goose Bay (YYR) is Rigolet Airport (YRG), which is located 100 miles (161 kilometers) NE of YYR.
• The increased low-level flights by fighter aircraft was not without serious controversy as the Innu Nation protested these operations vociferously, claiming that the noise of aircraft travelling at supersonic speeds in close proximity to the ground was adversely affecting wildlife, namely caribou, and was a nuisance to their way of life on their traditional lands.