Nonstop flight route between Prague, Czech Republic and Tusayan, Arizona, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Prague Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG), Prague, Czech Republic and Grand Canyon National Park Airport (GCN), Tusayan, Arizona, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,653 miles (or 9,098 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 Prague Vaclav Havel Airport and Grand Canyon National Park 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 Prague Vaclav Havel Airport and Grand Canyon National Park Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Prague Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG):

• The closest airport to Prague Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG) is Vodochody Airport (VOD), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) NE of PRG.
• The company operating the airport is Prague Airport, a joint-stock company that has one shareholder, the Ministry of Finance.
• The furthest airport from Prague Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,771 miles (18,944 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The construction of a railway connection between the airport and Prague city centre is also in the planning stage.
• Prague Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG) has 3 runways.
• Due to insufficient capacity of the Kbely airport in the middle of the 1930s, the Government decided to develop a new State Civil Airport in Ruzyně.
• There are also two freight terminals, Cargo Terminal 1 is operated by Menzies Aviation Czech while Cargo Terminal 2 is operated by Skyport.
• As the capacity of the airport has been reaching its limit for the last couple of years, further development of the airport is being considered.
• In addition to being known as "Prague Vaclav Havel Airport", another name for PRG is "Letiště Václava Havla Praha".
• Prague Vaclav Havel Airport handled 10,974,196 passengers last year.

Facts about Grand Canyon National Park Airport (GCN):

• In addition, the airport was served in the past by America West Airlines operating de Havilland Canada DHC-8 Dash 8 turboprop aircraft to Las Vegas and Phoenix.
• The furthest airport from Grand Canyon National Park Airport (GCN) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,285 miles (18,162 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 294,436 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008 and 354,624 enplanements in 2007.
• On August 16, 2009, Air Force One, carrying President Barack Obama landed at Grand Canyon Airport at about 10am local time, for a four hour visit of the Canyon by the President and his family.
• The closest airport to Grand Canyon National Park Airport (GCN) is Valle Airport (VLE), which is located 21 miles (34 kilometers) S of GCN.
• Because of Grand Canyon National Park Airport's high elevation of 6,609 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at GCN. Combined with a high temperature, this could make GCN a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Grand Canyon National Park Airport (GCN) currently has only 1 runway.