Nonstop flight route between Salt Lake City, Utah, United States and Erfurt, Germany:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC), Salt Lake City, Utah, United States and Erfurt–Weimar Airport (ERF), Erfurt, Germany would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,225 miles (or 8,408 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 Salt Lake City International Airport and Erfurt–Weimar 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 Salt Lake City International Airport and Erfurt–Weimar Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC):

• In 1991 the airport opened a new short-term parking garage.
• The furthest airport from Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,958 miles (17,635 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The closest airport to Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) is Skypark Airport (BTF), which is located only 6 miles (10 kilometers) NNE of SLC.
• Because of Salt Lake City International Airport's high elevation of 4,227 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at SLC. Combined with a high temperature, this could make SLC a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• SkyWest Airlines opened a new maintenance and training facility at the airport in 2001 where the company has its largest maintenance base.
• For several years the new field was used mainly for training and aerobatic flights.
• Despite being the twenty-eighth busiest airport in the world in terms of aircraft operations, the airport still maintains a large general aviation presence.
• In 1911 a site for an air field was chosen on Basque Flats, named for Spanish-French sheep herders who worked the fields in the then-desolate area of the Salt Lake Valley.
• Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) has 4 runways.
• Delta Air Lines and Frontier Airlines have scheduled flights to cities in Canada, Mexico, and France.
• Salt Lake City International Airport handled 20,102,078 passengers last year.

Facts about Erfurt–Weimar Airport (ERF):

• In addition to being known as "Erfurt–Weimar Airport", another name for ERF is "Flughafen Erfurt–Weimar".
• The airport consists of the two passenger terminal buildings A and B, but only the new Terminal B is currently in use.
• The airport can be reached via nearby motorway A71 which leads from Erfurt to Schweinfurt in Bavaria.
• The airport used to have scheduled service from London Stansted Airport from Ryanair which ceased on 19 January 2005 when the airline moved services to Leipzig–Altenburg Airport leaving the airport with no regular flights operated by a low-cost carrier.
• The closest airport to Erfurt–Weimar Airport (ERF) is Hof–Plauen Airport (HOQ), which is located 62 miles (99 kilometers) SE of ERF.
• The furthest airport from Erfurt–Weimar Airport (ERF) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,833 miles (19,043 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Erfurt–Weimar Airport (ERF) currently has only 1 runway.