Nonstop flight route between Sliač, Slovakia and Bacolod City, Philippines:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Sliač Airport (SLD), Sliač, Slovakia and Bacolod-Silay International Airport (BCD), Bacolod City, Philippines would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,279 miles (or 10,106 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 Sliač Airport and Bacolod-Silay International 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 Sliač Airport and Bacolod-Silay International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Sliač Airport (SLD):

• The closest airport to Sliač Airport (SLD) is Žilina Airport (ILZ), which is located 47 miles (76 kilometers) NNW of SLD.
• In addition to being known as "Sliač Airport", another name for SLD is "Letisko Sliač".
• The furthest airport from Sliač Airport (SLD) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,622 miles (18,704 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Sliač Airport (SLD) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Bacolod-Silay International Airport (BCD):

• Airport transportation is accessible to passengers travelling in or out of the airport from Bacolod.
• In addition to being known as "Bacolod-Silay International Airport", another name for BCD is "Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Bacolod-SilayPangkalibutan nga Hulugpaan sang Bacolod-Silay".
• The closest airport to Bacolod-Silay International Airport (BCD) is Iloilo International Airport (Cabatuan Airport) (ILO), which is located 36 miles (57 kilometers) W of BCD.
• The furthest airport from Bacolod-Silay International Airport (BCD) is Inácio Luís do Nascimento Airport (JUA), which is nearly antipodal to Bacolod-Silay International Airport (meaning Bacolod-Silay International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Inácio Luís do Nascimento Airport), and is located 12,385 miles (19,932 kilometers) away in Juara, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
• The Bacolod-Silay International Airport is designated as an International Airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, a body of the Department of Transportation and Communications that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but also of all other airports in the Philippines except the major international airports.
• The airport officially opened and began operations on January 18, 2008, and the first commercial flight to arrive was Cebu Pacific's Flight 5J 473 from Manila, an Airbus A319-100 which landed at 5:22am PST on the same day.
• Bacolod-Silay International Airport handled 1,349,442 passengers last year.
• The state-of-the-art main passenger terminal is equipped with a flight information display system, mechanized baggage handling systems for both inbound and outbound baggage, numerous security X-ray machines, and elevators and escalators.
• Bacolod-Silay International Airport (BCD) currently has only 1 runway.