Nonstop flight route between Karijini National Park, Western Australia, Australia and Kabul, Afghanistan:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Solomon Airport (SLJ), Karijini National Park, Western Australia, Australia and Kabul International Airport (KBL), Kabul, Afghanistan would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,055 miles (or 8,135 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 Solomon Airport and Kabul 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 Solomon Airport and Kabul International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

Departure Airport Information:

Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about Solomon Airport (SLJ):

• The closest airport to Solomon Airport (SLJ) is Coolawanyah Station Airport (COY), which is located 32 miles (51 kilometers) N of SLJ.
• The furthest airport from Solomon Airport (SLJ) is Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport (AXA), which is nearly antipodal to Solomon Airport (meaning Solomon Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport), and is located 12,152 miles (19,557 kilometers) away in The Valley, Anguilla.

Facts about Kabul International Airport (KBL):

• Because of Kabul International Airport's high elevation of 5,877 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at KBL. Combined with a high temperature, this could make KBL a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Kabul Airport was originally built in the early 1960s by Soviet engineers.
• The airport was used by the Soviet Army during the Soviet War in Afghanistan, from 1979 to 1989.
• Passenger movements reached 100,000 per year by 2010 or 300 per day.
• An F-15E Strike Eagle from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., sits on the runway at the Kabul International Airport September 2011.
• During Hillary Cinton's 2010 visit to Afghanistan
• Kabul International Airport (KBL) currently has only 1 runway.
• The airport has 7 helicopter pad for mostly military traffic.
• In addition to being known as "Kabul International Airport", another name for KBL is "میدان هوایی بین المللی کابل".
• The closest airport to Kabul International Airport (KBL) is Bagram Airfield (OAI), which is located 26 miles (43 kilometers) N of KBL.
• The furthest airport from Kabul International Airport (KBL) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is located 11,919 miles (19,182 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.