Nonstop flight route between Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and Salto, Salto, Uruguay:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tenerife North Airport (TFN), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and Nueva Hespérides International Airport (STY), Salto, Salto, Uruguay would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,964 miles (or 7,988 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 Nueva Hespérides 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 Nueva Hespérides 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):

• In July 1936 Francisco Franco did not fly from here after taking over the island to invade the mainland Spain.
• In May 1930, the Compañía de Líneas Aéreas Subvencionadas S.A.
• Tenerife North Airport (TFN) currently has only 1 runway.
• Tenerife North Airport handled 3,717,944 passengers last year.
• In addition to being known as "Tenerife North Airport", another name for TFN is "Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte".
• 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.
• 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.

Facts about Nueva Hespérides International Airport (STY):

• Nueva Hespérides International Airport (STY) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Nueva Hespérides International Airport (STY) is Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG), which is nearly antipodal to Nueva Hespérides International Airport (meaning Nueva Hespérides International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Shanghai Pudong International Airport), and is located 12,413 miles (19,977 kilometers) away in Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
• In addition to being known as "Nueva Hespérides International Airport", another name for STY is "Aeropuerto Internacional de Nueva Hespérides".
• The closest airport to Nueva Hespérides International Airport (STY) is Comodoro Pierrestegui Airport (COC), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) N of STY.
• Because of Nueva Hespérides International Airport's relatively low elevation of 187 feet, planes can take off or land at Nueva Hespérides 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.