Nonstop flight route between Milikapiti, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia and Bangkok, Thailand:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Snake Bay Airport (SNB), Milikapiti, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia and Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), Bangkok, Thailand would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,685 miles (or 4,321 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 Snake Bay Airport and Suvarnabhumi 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 Snake Bay Airport and Suvarnabhumi Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | SNB / YSNB | 
| Airport Name: | Snake Bay Airport | 
| Location: | Milikapiti, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia | 
| GPS Coordinates: | 11°25'22"S by 130°39'12"E | 
| Area Served: | Melville Island, Australia | 
| Operator/Owner: | Tiwi Island Shire Council | 
| Airport Type: | Public | 
| Elevation: | 173 feet (53 meters) | 
| # of Runways: | 1 | 
| View all routes: | Routes from SNB | 
| More Information: | SNB Maps & Info | 
Arrival Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | BKK / VTBS (VTBD | 
| Airport Names: | 
                    
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| Location: | Bangkok, Thailand | 
| GPS Coordinates: | 13°41'33"N by 100°45'0"E | 
| Area Served: | Bangkok | 
| Operator/Owner: | Airports of Thailand | 
| Airport Type: | Public | 
| Elevation: | 5 feet (2 meters) | 
| # of Runways: | 2 | 
| View all routes: | Routes from BKK | 
| More Information: | BKK Maps & Info | 
Facts about Snake Bay Airport (SNB):
- Snake Bay Airport (SNB) currently has only 1 runway.
 - Construction was started on 7 July 1944, by No.
 - The furthest airport from Snake Bay Airport (SNB) is Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport (CAY), which is located 11,936 miles (19,209 kilometers) away in Cayenne, French Guiana.
 - The closest airport to Snake Bay Airport (SNB) is Garden Point Airport (GPN), which is located only 16 miles (25 kilometers) W of SNB.
 - Because of Snake Bay Airport's relatively low elevation of 173 feet, planes can take off or land at Snake Bay 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.
 
Facts about Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK):
- In addition to being known as "Suvarnabhumi Airport", other names for BKK include "ท่าอากาศยานสุวรรณภูมิ" and "VTBS".
 - The furthest airport from Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) is Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM), which is nearly antipodal to Suvarnabhumi Airport (meaning Suvarnabhumi Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Jorge Chávez International Airport), and is located 12,252 miles (19,718 kilometers) away in Callao (near Lima), Peru.
 - A further delay was caused by the discovery that the airport had been built over an old graveyard, and superstitious construction workers claimed to have seen ghosts there.
 - The airport has two parallel runways and two parallel taxiways to accommodate simultaneous departures and arrivals.
 - Suvarnabhumi Airport.
 - The closest airport to Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) is Suvarnabhumi Airport (NBK), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) N of BKK.
 - Because of Suvarnabhumi Airport's relatively low elevation of 5 feet, planes can take off or land at Suvarnabhumi 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.
 - Suvarnabhumi is the sixteenth busiest airport in the world, sixth busiest airport in Asia, and the busiest in the country, having handled 53 million passengers in 2012, and is also a major air cargo hub, with a total of 96 airlines.
 - Fifty percent of the airport's construction cost was covered by Airports of Thailand, while the another 50% was from a friendly agreement of AOT and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
 - Months into its opening, issues such as congestion, construction quality, signage, provision of facilities, and soil subsidence continued to plague the project, prompting calls to reopen Don Mueang to allow for repairs to be done.
 - The airport was due to open in late 2005, but a series of budget overruns, construction flaws, and allegations of corruption plagued the project.
 - Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) has 2 runways.
 - The result of Helmut Jahn's vision is a structure with performance materials serve in their total composition and in use more than in their conventional roles.
 
