Nonstop flight route between Tromsø, Norway and London, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tromsø Airport, Langnes (TOS), Tromsø, Norway and Gatwick Airport (LGW), London, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,422 miles (or 2,289 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 relatively short distance between Tromsø Airport, Langnes and Gatwick Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Tromsø Airport, Langnes (TOS):

• Tromsø Airport, Langnes (TOS) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Tromsø Airport, Langnes's relatively low elevation of 32 feet, planes can take off or land at Tromsø Airport, Langnes 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.
• Airport buses linking the airport with the rest of the city are synchronized with SAS flights.
• Tromsø Airport, Langnes handled 1,723,465 passengers last year.
• The closest airport to Tromsø Airport, Langnes (TOS) is Bardufoss Airport (BDU), which is located 44 miles (71 kilometers) SSW of TOS.
• In addition to being known as "Tromsø Airport, Langnes", another name for TOS is "Tromsø lufthavn, Langnes".
• Operation of the water aerodrome was taken over from the Royal Norwegian Air Force by the municipalities of Tromsø and Tromsøysund.
• The Civil Airport Administration stated in 1950 that Tromsø, as Northern Norway's largest town, should have an airfield.
• The furthest airport from Tromsø Airport, Langnes (TOS) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 10,570 miles (17,010 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

Facts about Gatwick Airport (LGW):

• Gatwick Airport handled 35,444,206 passengers last year.
• Queen Elizabeth II flew into Gatwick on 9 June 1958 in a de Havilland Heron of the Queen's Flight for the opening.
• Two fatal accidents occurred, raising questions about the airport's safety.
• During the late 1920s, land adjacent to the racecourse was used as an aerodrome.
• In 1935, a new airline, Allied British Airways, was formed with the merger of Hillman's Airways, United Airways and Spartan Airways.
• The third extension to Gatwick's runway was completed in 1973, bringing it to 10,165 ft and allowing for non-stop narrow-body operations to the US west coast and commercially viable, long-range wide-body operations.Wardair became the first airline to operate Boeing 747s at Gatwick.KLM augmented its Heathrow–Amsterdam service with a Gatwick–Amsterdam route, making it the first non-UK airline to split operations between Heathrow and Gatwick for commercial reasons rather than to comply with government directives.
• Gatwick Airport (LGW) has 2 runways.
• Despite the rapid expansion of BUA's scheduled activities at Gatwick, the airport was dominated by non-scheduled services into the 1980s.
• The closest airport to Gatwick Airport (LGW) is Redhill Aerodrome (KRH), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) NNE of LGW.
• On 1 April 1961, BEA began operating half its London–Paris flights from Gatwick.
• The furthest airport from Gatwick Airport (LGW) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,901 miles (19,152 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Because of Gatwick Airport's relatively low elevation of 203 feet, planes can take off or land at Gatwick 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.