Nonstop flight route between Tom Price, Western Australia, Australia and between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C., United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tom Price Airport (TPR), Tom Price, Western Australia, Australia and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C., United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 11,016 miles (or 17,728 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 Tom Price Airport and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall 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 Tom Price Airport and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Tom Price Airport (TPR):

• The closest airport to Tom Price Airport (TPR) is Paraburdoo Airport (PBO), which is located 30 miles (49 kilometers) SSW of TPR.
• The furthest airport from Tom Price Airport (TPR) is Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport (AXA), which is nearly antipodal to Tom Price Airport (meaning Tom Price Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport), and is located 12,117 miles (19,501 kilometers) away in The Valley, Anguilla.
• The strategic location of the planned airport has been chosen also to handle the expansions at the Brockman minesite, by Pilbara Iron.
• In addition to being known as "Tom Price Airport", another name for TPR is "YTMP".
• Tom Price Airport (TPR) currently has only 1 runway.
• However, on 16 January 2009, suffering the effects of lower demand and ore prices as a result of the global financial crisis, these plans were scrapped as Rio's capital expenditure program was cut.

Facts about Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI):

• With winds from the north or west, aircraft will generally land on runway 33L and depart on runway 28.
• Because of Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport's relatively low elevation of 146 feet, planes can take off or land at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall 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.
• Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) has 4 runways.
• Planning for a new airport on 3,200 acres to serve the Baltimore/Washington area began just after the end of World War II.
• The furthest airport from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,691 miles (18,814 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• Beginning in the 1980s, and later for much of the 1990s, BWI was a major hub for Piedmont Airlines and successor US Airways, but that airline's financial difficulties in the wake of the dot-com bust, the September 11 attacks, and intense low fare competition forced it to significantly reduce its presence at the airport.
• The Federal Aviation Administration is currently in the process of designing a new air traffic control tower that will replace the current tower.
• The passenger terminal renovation program was complete in 1979, the most dramatic work of the airport's modernization, which was designed by DMJM along with Peterson & Brickbauer.
• Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport handled 22,391,785 passengers last year.
• The closest airport to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) is Tipton Airport (FME), which is located only 8 miles (13 kilometers) SW of BWI.