Nonstop flight route between Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and San Andres Island, Colombia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tenerife North Airport (TFN), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport (ADZ), San Andres Island, Colombia would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,320 miles (or 6,952 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 Tenerife North Airport and Gustavo Rojas Pinilla 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 Tenerife North Airport and Gustavo Rojas Pinilla 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 Tenerife North Airport (TFN):

• By 1964, runway 12/30 had been stretched to 3,000 m to accommodate the DC-8, new navigation aids were installed, and the apron was expanded to provide more parking spaces for aircraft.
• A new terminal was inaugurated in 2002, comprising car park, motorway access ramps, and four-story terminal building, with 12 gates.
• Today TFN is an inter-island hub connecting all seven Canary Islands with connections to the Iberian Peninsula, Europe, and North America.
• Many years before the airport had even been built, the field at Los Rodeos was hastily prepared to accommodate the first flight into Tenerife operated by an Arado VI aircraft operating from Berlin on behalf of Deutsche Luft Hansa.
• Tenerife North Airport handled 3,717,944 passengers last year.
• In the 1977 Tenerife disaster, a PanAm and a KLM Boeing 747 collided on the runway, killing 583 people, the highest number of fatalities of any single accident in aviation history.
• The furthest airport from Tenerife North Airport (TFN) is Norfolk Island Airport (NLK), which is nearly antipodal to Tenerife North Airport (meaning Tenerife North Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Norfolk Island Airport), and is located 12,175 miles (19,593 kilometers) away in Norfolk Island, Australia.
• The closest airport to Tenerife North Airport (TFN) is Tenerife-South Airport (TFS), which is located 33 miles (54 kilometers) SSW of TFN.
• Tenerife North Airport (TFN) currently has only 1 runway.
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• In addition to being known as "Tenerife North Airport", another name for TFN is "Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte".

Facts about Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport (ADZ):

• Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport (ADZ) currently has only 1 runway.
• On September 19, 2013, American Airlines flight 1204 from San Jose, Costa Rica made an emergency landing at the San Andres Airport after reporting smoke in the cockpit.
• The closest airport to Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport (ADZ) is El Embrujo Airport (PVA), which is located 58 miles (94 kilometers) NNE of ADZ.
• Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport is the main airport in the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, which is able to receive large aircraft, to accommodate a number of seasonal and charter flights to and from different parts of the Americas and Europe.
• In addition to being known as "Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport", another name for ADZ is "Aeropuerto Internacional Gustavo Rojas Pinilla".
• Because of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport's relatively low elevation of 19 feet, planes can take off or land at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International 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.
• The furthest airport from Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport (ADZ) is Cocos (Keeling) Island Airport (CCK), which is nearly antipodal to Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport (meaning Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Cocos (Keeling) Island Airport), and is located 12,335 miles (19,851 kilometers) away in Cocos Islands, Australia.