Nonstop flight route between Pituffik, Greenland and Amritsar, India:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Thule Air Base (THU), Pituffik, Greenland and Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar International Airport (ATQ), Amritsar, India would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,795 miles (or 7,717 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 Thule Air Base and Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar 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 Thule Air Base and Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar 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 Thule Air Base (THU):

• The furthest airport from Thule Air Base (THU) is Hobart International Airport (HBA), which is located 9,883 miles (15,905 kilometers) away in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
• The ratification of the treaty in 1951 did not change much, except that the Danish national flag Dannebrog must be side by side with Stars and Stripes on the base.
• A cluster of huts known as Pituffik stood on the wide plain where the base was built in 1951.
• Late 1950s the DEW 1 to 4 where build as "weather stations", Thule Air Base would act as an supply station for the DYE bases.
• Thule Air Base is also home to the 821st Air Base Group and is responsible for air base support within the Thule Defense Area for the multinational population of "Team Thule." The base hosts the 12th Space Warning Squadron which operates a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System designed to detect and track ICBMs launched against North America.
• In addition to being known as "Thule Air Base", another name for THU is "Thule AB".
• Thule Air Base is the U.S.
• The closest airport to Thule Air Base (THU) is Savissivik Heliport (SVR), which is located 69 miles (111 kilometers) ESE of THU.
• Thule is the location where the fastest recorded sea level surface wind speed in the world was measured when a peak speed of 333 kilometres per hour was recorded on 8 March 1972 prior to the instrument's destruction.

Facts about Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar International Airport (ATQ):

• The government wants the consortium of the selected bidder and the AAI to commercially operate the airports and maintain their terminal buildings.
• The furthest airport from Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar International Airport (ATQ) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is nearly antipodal to Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar International Airport (meaning Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mataveri International Airport), and is located 12,033 miles (19,365 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.
• The system has reduced the visibility requirement for an aircraft landing at Amritsar Airport from the existing 650 metres to 350 metres benefiting airlines in terms of increased safety and avoiding diversions to other airports resulting in better operational and environmental efficiency.
• Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar International Airport (ATQ) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar International Airport (ATQ) is Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE), which is located 27 miles (43 kilometers) WSW of ATQ.
• Because of Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar International Airport's relatively low elevation of 756 feet, planes can take off or land at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportAmritsar 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.