Nonstop flight route between Beijing, People's Republic of China and Brownwood, Texas, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK), Beijing, People's Republic of China and Brownwood Regional Airport (BWD), Brownwood, Texas, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,975 miles (or 11,225 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 Beijing Capital International Airport and Brownwood Regional 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 Beijing Capital International Airport and Brownwood Regional Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK):

• Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) has 3 runways.
• The closest airport to Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) is Beijing Nanyuan Airport (NAY), which is located 23 miles (37 kilometers) SSW of PEK.
• Beijing Capital has rapidly ascended in rankings of the world's busiest airports in the past decade.
• Construction of Terminal 3 started on 28 March 2004, and the terminal opened in two stages.
• On 20 July 2013, a man in a wheelchair detonated small homemade explosives which exploded on Terminal 3 in the Beijing International Airport.
• Beijing Capital International Airport handled 83,712,355 passengers last year.
• The luggage system can handle 19,200 pieces of luggage per hour.
• The T3 food-service area is called a "global kitchen," where 72 stores provide food ranging from formal dishes to fast food, from Chinese to western, from bakery goods to ice cream.
• The furthest airport from Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) is Gobernador Edgardo Castello Airport (VDM), which is nearly antipodal to Beijing Capital International Airport (meaning Beijing Capital International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Gobernador Edgardo Castello Airport), and is located 12,378 miles (19,920 kilometers) away in Viedma, Argentina.
• Another expansion, Terminal 3 was completed in February 2008, in time for the Beijing Olympics.
• Because of Beijing Capital International Airport's relatively low elevation of 116 feet, planes can take off or land at Beijing Capital International 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.
• In addition to being known as "Beijing Capital International Airport", other names for PEK include "北京首都国际机场" and "Běijīng Shǒudū Guójì Jīchǎng".
• Terminal 3 of the BCIA is currently the second largest airport passenger terminal building of the world.

Facts about Brownwood Regional Airport (BWD):

• The closest airport to Brownwood Regional Airport (BWD) is Coleman Municipal Airport (COM), which is located 26 miles (43 kilometers) W of BWD.
• In addition to being known as "Brownwood Regional Airport", another name for BWD is "Brownwood Army Airfield".
• The furthest airport from Brownwood Regional Airport (BWD) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,061 miles (17,801 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The airport opened during World War II as Brownwood Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base.
• Brownwood Regional Airport (BWD) has 2 runways.
• Trans-Texas/Texas International stopped at BWD until 1976-77.