Nonstop flight route between Prestwick (near Glasgow), Scotland, United Kingdom and José de San Martín, Chubut, Argentina:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK), Prestwick (near Glasgow), Scotland, United Kingdom and Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (JSM), José de San Martín, Chubut, Argentina would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,477 miles (or 10,424 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 Glasgow-Prestwick Airport and Libertador General José de San Martín 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 Glasgow-Prestwick Airport and Libertador General José de San Martín Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK):

• Glasgow Prestwick Airport is Glasgow's second airport, it also serves the Greater Glasgow urban area, situated 1 nautical mile Northeast of the town of Prestwick in South Ayrshire and 32 mi from the city centre of Glasgow.
• The furthest airport from Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK) is Ryan's Creek Aerodrome (SZS), which is located 11,764 miles (18,932 kilometers) away in Stewart Island, New Zealand.
• Since 2007 the airport has occasionally been used by BBC motoring TV show Top Gear as the location for various stunts and experiments.
• Glasgow-Prestwick Airport handled 1,145,836 passengers last year.
• Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK) has 2 runways.
• The airport began life around 1934 — primarily as a training airfield — with a hangar, offices and control tower were constructed by the end of 1935.
• Because of Glasgow-Prestwick Airport's relatively low elevation of 65 feet, planes can take off or land at Glasgow-Prestwick 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 closest airport to Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK) is Glasgow International Airport (GLA), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) NNE of PIK.
• On 6 July 2005, Prestwick Airport became the entry point for the participants in the 31st G8 summit held in Gleneagles.
• Glasgow Prestwick Airport is considered to be the only piece of United Kingdom territory on which Elvis Presley ever set foot, when the United States Army transport plane carrying him home stopped to refuel in 1960, en route from Germany.
• In the beginning Prestwick was the only Scottish airport allowed to operate a transatlantic link, largely due to the benign weather conditions on the Ayrshire coast.
• Today BAE Systems retains a small facility at Prestwick for its BAE Systems Regional Aircraft division, with the adjoining main manufacturing site, producing components for Airbus and Boeing aircraft, having been sold to Spirit AeroSystems in January 2006.
• The airport was owned by Infratil, a New Zealand company and majority owner of Wellington International Airport Infratil also owned Manston Airport until November 2013.

Facts about Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (JSM):

• In addition to being known as "Libertador General José de San Martín Airport", other names for JSM include "Aeropuerto de Posadas "Libertador General San Martín"", "PSS", "SARP" and "PSS".
• The closest airport to Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (JSM) is Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (PSS), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) N of JSM.
• Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (JSM) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (JSM) is Taizhou Luqiao Airport (HYN), which is nearly antipodal to Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (meaning Libertador General José de San Martín Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Taizhou Luqiao Airport), and is located 12,258 miles (19,728 kilometers) away in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
• Because of Libertador General José de San Martín Airport's relatively low elevation of 430 feet, planes can take off or land at Libertador General José de San Martín 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.
• On October 10, 1997, Austral Flight 2553 left the airport for Buenos Aires but crashed one hour later in Fray Bentos, Uruguay, killing 75.