Nonstop flight route between Sand Point, Alaska, United States and Guasdualito, Venezuela:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Sand Point Airport (SDP), Sand Point, Alaska, United States and Guasdualito Airport (GDO), Guasdualito, Venezuela would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,800 miles (or 9,334 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 Sand Point Airport and Guasdualito 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 Sand Point Airport and Guasdualito Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Sand Point Airport (SDP):

• As per the Federal Aviation Administration, this airport had 4,296 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 3,957 in 2009, and 4,281 in 2010.
• Sand Point Airport (SDP) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Sand Point Airport (SDP) is Port Moller Airport (PML), which is located 48 miles (77 kilometers) N of SDP.
• Because of Sand Point Airport's relatively low elevation of 21 feet, planes can take off or land at Sand Point 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 furthest airport from Sand Point Airport (SDP) is Cape Town International Airport (CPT), which is located 10,961 miles (17,641 kilometers) away in Cape Town, South Africa.
• Sand Point Airport is a state owned, public use airport located two nautical miles southwest of the central business district of Sand Point, a city in the Aleutians East Borough in the U.S.
• Sand Point Airport resides at elevation of 21 feet above mean sea level.

Facts about Guasdualito Airport (GDO):

• Guasdualito Airport (GDO) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Guasdualito Airport (GDO) is Santiago Pérez Quiroz Airport (AUC), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) S of GDO.
• Because of Guasdualito Airport's relatively low elevation of 426 feet, planes can take off or land at Guasdualito 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 furthest airport from Guasdualito Airport (GDO) is Purwokerto / Wirasaba Airport (PWL), which is nearly antipodal to Guasdualito Airport (meaning Guasdualito Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Purwokerto / Wirasaba Airport), and is located 12,416 miles (19,981 kilometers) away in Wirasaba, Central Java, Indonesia.