Nonstop flight route between Knock, Ireland and Bern, Switzerland:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Ireland West Airport Knock (NOC), Knock, Ireland and Bern Airport (BRN), Bern, Switzerland would travel a Great Circle distance of 863 miles (or 1,389 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 Ireland West Airport Knock and Bern Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | NOC / EIKN |
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Location: | Knock, Ireland |
GPS Coordinates: | 53°54'37"N by 8°49'6"W |
Area Served: | Connacht, Ireland |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 665 feet (203 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from NOC |
More Information: | NOC Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | BRN / LSZB |
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Location: | Bern, Switzerland |
GPS Coordinates: | 46°54'43"N by 7°29'57"E |
Area Served: | Bern, Switzerland |
Operator/Owner: | ALPAR Flug- und Flugplatz- gesellschaft AG |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 1673 feet (510 meters) |
# of Runways: | 2 |
View all routes: | Routes from BRN |
More Information: | BRN Maps & Info |
Facts about Ireland West Airport Knock (NOC):
- In addition to being known as "Ireland West Airport Knock", other names for NOC include "Horan International Airport" and "Aerfort Iarthar Éireann".
- The closest airport to Ireland West Airport Knock (NOC) is Sligo Airport (SXL), which is located 27 miles (44 kilometers) NNE of NOC.
- In November 2011 Ryanair announced flights to Beauvais-Tillé, Frankfurt Hahn, Bergamo-Orio al Serio and Girona-Costa Brava from March 2012.
- Ireland West Airport Knock (NOC) currently has only 1 runway.
- Ireland West Airport Knock handled 665,000 passengers last year.
- Because of Ireland West Airport Knock's relatively low elevation of 665 feet, planes can take off or land at Ireland West Airport Knock 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.
- By 1988, over 100,000 passengers had passed through.
- In 2011, the month of August was the busiest in the airport's history with 84,052 passengers.
- In recent years Ryanair has grown operations and it is the largest airline to serve the airport with 14 scheduled routes.
- The furthest airport from Ireland West Airport Knock (NOC) is Ryan's Creek Aerodrome (SZS), which is located 11,934 miles (19,206 kilometers) away in Stewart Island, New Zealand.
Facts about Bern Airport (BRN):
- In addition to being known as "Bern Airport", other names for BRN include "Regionalflugplatz Bern-Belp" and "LSZB / LSMB".
- A base of the air rescue organization Rega is located at the Airport, using a Eurocopter EC 145.
- The closest airport to Bern Airport (BRN) is Emmen Swiss Air Base (EML), which is located 40 miles (64 kilometers) ENE of BRN.
- Bern Airport (BRN) has 2 runways.
- The Biderhangar, one of the airport's hangars built by Swiss aviation pioneer Oskar Bider, is listed as a heritage site of national significance in the November 2008 review draft of the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance.
- The furthest airport from Bern Airport (BRN) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Bern Airport (meaning Bern Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,149 miles (19,552 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.