Nonstop flight route between Sofia, Bulgaria and São José do Rio Preto, Brazil:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF), Sofia, Bulgaria and Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport (SJP), São José do Rio Preto, Brazil would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,369 miles (or 10,250 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 Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna and Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State 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 Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna and Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF):

• The initial completion deadline for the new terminal was 15 December 2004 to a total budget of 112.2 million euro.
• Contract for detailed design and construction of a new control tower of the airport and forming an ATM Glavbolgarstroy.
• The construction of the new Sofia tower is related to the reconstruction and development of Sofia Airport and is the natural extension of the development of the airport complex.
• Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,437 miles (18,405 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Lufthansa Technik Sofia was founded in late 2007 as a joint venture between Lufthansa Technik and the Bulgarian Aviation Group.
• Options for different airport developments began to be examined in the mid-1960s.
• Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna handled 350,432 passengers last year.
• On 19 August 2011 in the presence of Ivaylo Moskovski, minister of transport, information technology and communications, the BULATSA director general Diyan Dinev, Glavbolgarstroy AD chief executive director Pavel Kalistratov and Glavbolgarstroy AD executive director and management board member Nina Stoyanova signed the design execution and construction contract between BULATSA and Glavbolgarstroy AD for the new control tower at Sofia Airport.
• In addition to being known as "Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna", other names for SOF include "Vrazhdebna Airport" and "Летище София".
• The closest airport to Sofia Airport Vrazhdebna (SOF) is Plovdiv Airport (PDV), which is located 86 miles (138 kilometers) ESE of SOF.

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

• Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport (SJP) currently has only 1 runway.
• 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.
• In addition to being known as "Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport", another name for SJP is "Aeroporto Estadual Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino".
• 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.
• Prof. Eribelto Manoel Reino State Airport handled 770,569 passengers last year.