Nonstop flight route between Tichitt, Mauritania and Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tichitt Airport (THI), Tichitt, Mauritania and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,396 miles (or 8,683 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 Tichitt Airport and Dallas/Fort Worth 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 Tichitt Airport and Dallas/Fort Worth 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 Tichitt Airport (THI):

• The furthest airport from Tichitt Airport (THI) is Futuna Airport (FTA), which is nearly antipodal to Tichitt Airport (meaning Tichitt Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Futuna Airport), and is located 12,361 miles (19,894 kilometers) away in Futuna Island, Taféa, Vanuatu.
• The closest airport to Tichitt Airport (THI) is Tamchakett Airport (THT), which is located 120 miles (193 kilometers) SW of THI.

Facts about Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW):

• The joint airport proposal was revisited in 1961 after the FAA refused to invest more money in separate Dallas and Fort Worth airports.
• The furthest airport from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,926 miles (17,583 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• DFW is located in the cities of Irving, Euless, Grapevine, and Coppell, between the major cities of Dallas and Fort Worth.
• The closest airport to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is Dallas Love Field (DAL), which is located only 11 miles (18 kilometers) ESE of DFW.
• DFW held an open house and dedication ceremony on September 20–22, 1973, which included the first landing of a supersonic Concorde in the United States, an Air France aircraft en route from Caracas to Paris.
• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport handled 60,470,507 passengers last year.
• Along with the TRIP improvements, a new 10-gate stinger concourse off of Terminal B was constructed between gates B28 and B33 to accommodate growth.
• On April 3, 2014 DFW Airport director Sean Donohue announced that Emirates Airlines would upgrade their service from the Boeing 777-200LR to the Airbus A380 from October 1, 2014.
• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) has 7 runways.
• Terminal D, built for international flights, and Skylink, a modern bidirectional people mover system, opened in 2005.
• Because of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport's relatively low elevation of 607 feet, planes can take off or land at Dallas/Fort Worth 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.