Nonstop flight route between Timbedra, Mauritania and Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Timbedra Airport (TMD), Timbedra, Mauritania and Dundee Airport (DND), Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,792 miles (or 4,493 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 Timbedra Airport and Dundee 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 Timbedra Airport and Dundee Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Timbedra Airport (TMD):

• In addition to being known as "Timbedra Airport", another name for TMD is "مطار تمبدغة الدولي".
• The closest airport to Timbedra Airport (TMD) is Néma Airport (EMN), which is located 62 miles (101 kilometers) ENE of TMD.
• The furthest airport from Timbedra Airport (TMD) is Tongoa Airport (TGH), which is nearly antipodal to Timbedra Airport (meaning Timbedra Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Tongoa Airport), and is located 12,215 miles (19,658 kilometers) away in Tongoa, Shefa Province, Vanuatu.

Facts about Dundee Airport (DND):

• Dundee Airport handled 67,269 passengers last year.
• Dundee Airport (DND) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Dundee Airport", another name for DND is "Port-adhair Dhùn Dèagh".
• The furthest airport from Dundee Airport (DND) is Ryan's Creek Aerodrome (SZS), which is located 11,677 miles (18,791 kilometers) away in Stewart Island, New Zealand.
• After the departure of Business Air, the airport was left without any scheduled services for almost a year until April 1999, when ScotAirways introduced flights to London City Airport.
• Dundee Airport has been operating at a loss of over £2 million per year from 2004 to 2007 and in the first full financial year of operation under HIAL, 2008/9, the airport's loss was £2.6 million.
• Ramsay World Travel from Dundee also operate a weekly charter to Jersey in the Summer months in association with Lewis's Holidays, and in 1996 they ran a series of weekly flights to Majorca using BAe 146 aircraft which had to land in Bournemouth/Southend to re-fuel.
• The closest airport to Dundee Airport (DND) is RAF Leuchars (ADX), which is located only 8 miles (13 kilometers) SE of DND.
• In October 2012, Loganair announced the closure of flights to Belfast City and Birmingham on behalf of Flybe citing poor load factors and high fuel costs as the reason for closure leaving CityJet with its route to London-City as the only scheduled carrier in Dundee.
• Because of Dundee Airport's relatively low elevation of 17 feet, planes can take off or land at Dundee 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.