Nonstop flight route between São José do Rio Preto, Brazil and Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport (SJP), São José do Rio Preto, Brazil and Iqaluit Airport (YFB), Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,934 miles (or 9,550 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 Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport and Iqaluit 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 Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport and Iqaluit Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport (SJP):

• In addition to being known as "Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport", another name for SJP is "Aeroporto Estadual Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino".
• Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport (SJP) currently has only 1 runway.
• Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport handled 770,569 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport (SJP) is Minami-Daito Airport (MMD), which is nearly antipodal to Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport (meaning Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Minami-Daito Airport), and is located 12,087 miles (19,452 kilometers) away in Minami Daito, Okinawa, Japan.
• The closest airport to Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport (SJP) is Chafei Amsei State Airport (BAT), which is located 55 miles (88 kilometers) ENE of SJP.

Facts about Iqaluit Airport (YFB):

• Because of Iqaluit Airport's relatively low elevation of 110 feet, planes can take off or land at Iqaluit 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.
• Since the 1950s, Frobisher Bay had earned a reputation as a technical stop for airlines flying the North Atlantic.
• Iqaluit Airport (YFB) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Iqaluit Airport (YFB) is Kimmirut Airport (YLC), which is located 75 miles (121 kilometers) SSW of YFB.
• In January 2012 Air Greenland announced that a 1-hour, 45-minute flight from Nuuk to Iqaluit, down from three days when going via Copenhagen or Reykjavik and then on to Ottawa, would begin 18 June 2012, later changed to 15 June.
• The airport serves as a diversion airport on Polar routes.
• Through the 1960s, Nordair was the main airline serving Frobisher Bay from Montreal, 1,100 nautical miles to the south.
• The furthest airport from Iqaluit Airport (YFB) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 10,428 miles (16,782 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• There are 30 short term parking spaces at the airport.
• In the 1980s, Canada's airline industry was in transition, with Air Canada and Canadian Airlines rapidly buying up regional operators.