Nonstop flight route between Ruislip, England, United Kingdom and Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Northolt (NHT), Ruislip, England, United Kingdom and Pagadian Airport (PAG), Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,164 miles (or 11,530 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 RAF Northolt and Pagadian 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 RAF Northolt and Pagadian Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about RAF Northolt (NHT):

• The furthest airport from RAF Northolt (NHT) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,871 miles (19,105 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to RAF Northolt (NHT) is London Heathrow Airport (LHR), which is located only 6 miles (9 kilometers) SSW of NHT.
• Civil flights ceased when the central area at Heathrow opened in 1954 with Northolt reverting to sole military use in May that year.
• Northolt became an active base during the Second World War for Royal Air Force and Polish Air Force squadrons in their defence of the United Kingdom.
• Much media attention focused on the airfield when the body of Diana, Princess of Wales, arrived there from Villacoublay airfield, in Paris, France, after her death in a car crash in the city on 31 August 1997.
• The Ministry of Defence launched Project MoDEL in 2006 to consolidate many of its London-based operations at RAF Northolt.
• In August 1996, a Spanish Learjet operated by Mar Aviation overshot runway 25 and collided with a van heading eastward on the A40 Western Avenue.

Facts about Pagadian Airport (PAG):

• The furthest airport from Pagadian Airport (PAG) is Piloto Osvaldo Marques Dias Airport (AFL), which is nearly antipodal to Pagadian Airport (meaning Pagadian Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Piloto Osvaldo Marques Dias Airport), and is located 12,293 miles (19,783 kilometers) away in Alta Floresta, Brazil.
• On October 9, 2009, Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo inaugurated the renovated airport.
• Because of Pagadian Airport's relatively low elevation of 5 feet, planes can take off or land at Pagadian 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 airport officially recommenced commercial operation on April 27, 2010 accommodating the first Cebu Pacific flight from Cebu City to Pagadian.
• The closest airport to Pagadian Airport (PAG) is Labo Airport (OZC), which is located 36 miles (57 kilometers) NE of PAG.
• Pagadian Airport (PAG) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Pagadian Airport", another name for PAG is "Paliparan ng PagadianTugpahanan sa Pagadian".