Nonstop flight route between Napier, New Zealand and Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Hawke's Bay Airport (NPE), Napier, New Zealand and Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport (JDF), Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,471 miles (or 12,023 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 Hawke's Bay Airport and Francisco Álvares de Assis 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 Hawke's Bay Airport and Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Hawke's Bay Airport (NPE):

• Hawke's Bay Airport handled 451,128 passengers last year.
• Hawke's Bay Airport (NPE) has 3 runways.
• Because of Hawke's Bay Airport's relatively low elevation of 7 feet, planes can take off or land at Hawke's Bay 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.
• Hawke's Bay Airport Terminal is a modern well-equipped building, featuring three check-in counters for Air New Zealand and a check-in counter for Sun Air, together with a cafe, seating area and rental car counters.
• A smaller airport is located near Hastings called Hastings Aerodrome, which is primarily used for flight training and recreational aviation.
• 18 May 2010 a Piper Aztec aircraft made a crash landing at Hawke's Bay Airport during a night flight.
• The closest airport to Hawke's Bay Airport (NPE) is Taupo AirportTe Papa Waka Rererangi o Taupō (TUO), which is located 66 miles (106 kilometers) NW of NPE.
• The furthest airport from Hawke's Bay Airport (NPE) is Ciudad Real Central Airport (CQM), which is nearly antipodal to Hawke's Bay Airport (meaning Hawke's Bay Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Ciudad Real Central Airport), and is located 12,375 miles (19,916 kilometers) away in Ciudad Real, Spain.

Facts about Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport (JDF):

• In addition to being known as "Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport", another name for JDF is "Aeroporto Francisco Álvares de Assis".
• The furthest airport from Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport (JDF) is Central Field (Iwo Jima)Motoyama No. 2Airfield No. 2 (IWO), which is nearly antipodal to Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport (meaning Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Central Field (Iwo Jima)Motoyama No. 2Airfield No. 2), and is located 12,073 miles (19,430 kilometers) away in Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Japan.
• The airport is located 6 km from the centre of Juiz de Fora.
• The closest airport to Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport (JDF) is Presidente Itamar Franco Airport (IZA), which is located 24 miles (38 kilometers) NE of JDF.
• The aviation club of Juiz de Fora is based at the airport.
• The airport was inaugurated in 1958 and since 2007 it is operated by Sinart.
• Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport (JDF) currently has only 1 runway.