Nonstop flight route between Stuttgart, Germany and Kandahar, Afghanistan:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Stuttgart Airport (STR), Stuttgart, Germany and Kabul International Airport (KDH), Kandahar, Afghanistan would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,137 miles (or 5,048 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 Stuttgart 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 Stuttgart 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:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | STR / EDDS | 
| Airport Names: | 
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| Location: | Stuttgart, Germany | 
| GPS Coordinates: | 48°41'23"N by 9°13'18"E | 
| Area Served: | Stuttgart, Germany | 
| Operator/Owner: | Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH | 
| Airport Type: | Public | 
| Elevation: | 1276 feet (389 meters) | 
| # of Runways: | 1 | 
| View all routes: | Routes from STR | 
| More Information: | STR Maps & Info | 
Arrival Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | KDH / OAKN | 
| Airport Names: | 
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| Location: | Kandahar, Afghanistan | 
| GPS Coordinates: | 31°30'25"N by 65°51'1"E | 
| Area Served: | Southern Afghanistan | 
| Operator/Owner: | Afghanistan | 
| Airport Type: | Public/Military | 
| Elevation: | 3330 feet (1,015 meters) | 
| # of Runways: | 1 | 
| View all routes: | Routes from KDH | 
| More Information: | KDH Maps & Info | 
Facts about Stuttgart Airport (STR):
- In addition to being known as "Stuttgart Airport", another name for STR is "Flughafen Stuttgart".
- The closest airport to Stuttgart Airport (STR) is Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (ZWS), which is located only 7 miles (11 kilometers) NNW of STR.
- It is an important hub for the Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings and global headquarters for car parking company APCOA Parking.
- Stuttgart Airport (STR) currently has only 1 runway.
- After the death of former mayor Manfred Rommel in November 2013 local politicians proposed to rename the airport after him.
- The furthest airport from Stuttgart Airport (STR) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Stuttgart Airport (meaning Stuttgart Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,004 miles (19,319 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
Facts about Kabul International Airport (KDH):
- Kabul International Airport (KDH) currently has only 1 runway.
- The closest airport to Kabul International Airport (KDH) is Tarin Kowt Airport (TII), which is located 76 miles (123 kilometers) N of KDH.
- In addition to being known as "Kabul International Airport", other names for KDH include "Kandahar International Airport (Kandahar)" and "میدان هوایی بین المللی کندهار".
- The furthest airport from Kabul International Airport (KDH) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is nearly antipodal to Kabul International Airport (meaning Kabul International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mataveri International Airport), and is located 12,023 miles (19,349 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.
- During Operation Enduring Freedom in late 2001, Kandahar Airport was one of the first coalition bases established in Afghanistan.
- Coalition presence increases
- Kandahar International Airport is located 10 miles south-east of Kandahar City in Afghanistan.
- The airport was mostly used at this time for military and humanitarian purposes, hosting regular flights of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to and from Kabul, Jalalabad, Herat and Peshawar.
- Reconstruction and Canadian deployments




