Nonstop flight route between Tin City, Alaska, United States and Zürich, Switzerland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tin City LRRS Airport (TNC), Tin City, Alaska, United States and Zurich Airport (ZRH), Zürich, Switzerland would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,625 miles (or 7,443 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 Tin City LRRS Airport and Zurich 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 Tin City LRRS Airport and Zurich Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Tin City LRRS Airport (TNC):

• Tin City LRRS Airport (TNC) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Tin City LRRS Airport's relatively low elevation of 269 feet, planes can take off or land at Tin City LRRS 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.
• Tin City LRRS Airport has one runway designated 16/34 with a gravel surface measuring 4,700 by 100 feet.
• The furthest airport from Tin City LRRS Airport (TNC) is Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Airport (TNM), which is located 10,379 miles (16,703 kilometers) away in Villa Las Estrellas, Antarctica.
• It is not staffed by any support personnel, and is not open to the public.
• The closest airport to Tin City LRRS Airport (TNC) is Wales Airport (WAA), which is located only 6 miles (10 kilometers) NW of TNC.
• Tin City Airport is a United States Air Force military airstrip.

Facts about Zurich Airport (ZRH):

• Swiss International Air Lines has an office on the property of Zurich Airport and in Kloten, consisting of the Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie buildings.Swiss World Cargo has its head office in the Alpha and Bravo buildings.Swiss Private Aviation has its head office in the Swiss complex.Swiss European Air Lines and Swiss AviationTraining, subsidiaries of Swiss, are also headquartered on the airport property.
• The airport has three airside piers, which are known as docks A, B and E.
• In front of the terminal is a regional bus station and the airport stop of the Stadtbahn Glattal, a light rail system.
• Zurich Airport handled 24,865,138 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Zurich Airport (ZRH) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Zurich Airport (meaning Zurich Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,087 miles (19,453 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Zurich Airport (ZRH) has 4 runways.
• The airport is owned by Flughafen Zürich AG, a company quoted on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
• The closest airport to Zurich Airport (ZRH) is Emmen Swiss Air Base (EML), which is located 28 miles (45 kilometers) SSW of ZRH.
• In addition to being known as "Zurich Airport", another name for ZRH is "Flughafen Zürich".
• A treaty was signed in 2001, regarding the limitation of flights over Germany.
• The ground-side terminal complex comprises several buildings, and includes several airline check-in areas, a shopping mall, a railway station, car parks, and a bus and tram terminal.