Nonstop flight route between Palanga, Lithuania and Kleyate / Tripoli, Lebanon:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Palanga Airport (PLQ), Palanga, Lithuania and Rene Mouawad Air Base (KYE), Kleyate / Tripoli, Lebanon would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,638 miles (or 2,636 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 Palanga Airport and Rene Mouawad Air Base, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

Departure Airport Information:

Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about Palanga Airport (PLQ):

• Palanga Airport started operations in 1937 at a site 7 kilometers East of the current terminal, near the Palanga-Darbenai road.
• Because of Palanga Airport's relatively low elevation of 33 feet, planes can take off or land at Palanga 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 "Palanga Airport", another name for PLQ is "Palangos oro uostas".
• The closest airport to Palanga Airport (PLQ) is Klaipėda Airport (KLJ), which is located only 19 miles (31 kilometers) SSE of PLQ.
• Because of one-level terminal buildings layout where both departures and arrivals are handled on the ground floor level, there are no jet bridges at the airport.
• The furthest airport from Palanga Airport (PLQ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,296 miles (18,179 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Palanga Airport (PLQ) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Rene Mouawad Air Base (KYE):

• In the early 1960s, the air base was a small airport owned by an oil company, who used small IPC airplanes for transporting its engineers, staff and workers between Lebanon and the Arab countries.
• Rene Mouawad Air Base (KYE) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Rene Mouawad Air Base (KYE) is Rurutu Airport (RUR), which is located 11,486 miles (18,484 kilometers) away in Rurutu, French Polynesia.
• In addition to being known as "Rene Mouawad Air Base", another name for KYE is "مطار الرئيس الشهيد رينيه معوض".
• On July 13, 2006, the Israeli Air Force bombed the air base during the 2006 Israel–Lebanon conflict.
• Rene Mouawad Air Base, formerly and still sometimes known as Kleyate Airport, used to be a military-civil joint airport in northern Lebanon, near the town of Kleyate and 6 kilometres from the Lebanese–Syrian border.
• The closest airport to Rene Mouawad Air Base (KYE) is Bassel al-Assad International Airport (LTK), which is located 56 miles (90 kilometers) N of KYE.
• In 2010, Lebanon’s director general of the Lebanese Civil Aviation Authority, Dr Hamdi Chaouk announced that Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport would be built at Kleyate with construction due to start in 2011.
• Because of Rene Mouawad Air Base's relatively low elevation of 75 feet, planes can take off or land at Rene Mouawad Air Base 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.