Nonstop flight route between Turin, Italy and Colombo, Sri Lanka:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Turin Airport (TRN), Turin, Italy and Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB), Colombo, Sri Lanka would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,004 miles (or 8,053 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 Turin Airport and Bandaranaike 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 Turin Airport and Bandaranaike International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

Departure Airport Information:

Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about Turin Airport (TRN):

• Because of Turin Airport's relatively low elevation of 989 feet, planes can take off or land at Turin 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.
• Turin Airport (TRN) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Turin Airport (TRN) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Turin Airport (meaning Turin Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,213 miles (19,654 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The airport was built in 1953 and was renovated in 1989 for the 1990 FIFA World Cup and then again in 2005 in preparation for the Winter Olympics.
• Turin airport won the ACI Europe Best Airport Awards in the category from 1 to 5 millions passengers in both 2007 and 2008.
• The whole airport covers an area of more than 57 thousand square meters.
• The closest airport to Turin Airport (TRN) is Aosta Valley Airport (AOT), which is located 39 miles (63 kilometers) NNW of TRN.
• The airport is connected by rail to the city of Turin by the Ferrovia Torino-Ceres, operated by GTT as line A of Turin metropolitan railway service and by bus, by means of the SADEM bus shuttle and charter buses.
• Alenia Aeronautica has an office at the airport and in San Maurizio Canavese.
• Turin Airport handled 3,521,847 passengers last year.
• In addition to being known as "Turin Airport", another name for TRN is "Aeroporto di Torino".

Facts about Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB):

• On 7 November 1971 the first Boeing 747 landing took place, the Boeing 747-200B was operated by Condor was carrying German tourists from Frankfurt.
• In 1957 it closed as the British left the island, and SWRD Bandaranaike removed all the British Military airfields from Ceylon, the airfield was handed over to the Royal Ceylon Air Force and renamed Katunayake.
• On 7 May 2007 the Sri Lankan Government decided to shift some military aviation operations out of the space adjoining the airport to SLAF Hingurakgoda, thus paving the way for more civilian operations.
• Under the Development Project Phase II Stage 2, a second passenger terminal and required utility for second terminal will be constructed.
• On 26 July, The Criminal Investigations Department of Sri Lanka police set up a new security system at the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake to identify criminals.
• Bandaranaike International Airport handled 7,328,798 passengers last year.
• The airport began as a Royal Air Force airfield in 1944 during the Second World War, RAF Station Negombo
• Because of Bandaranaike International Airport's relatively low elevation of 26 feet, planes can take off or land at Bandaranaike 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.
• The airport is undergoing resurfacing of its runway.
• A new split-level passenger terminal building which separates arrivals and departures vertically, a new pier with eight boarding gates and 14 passenger boarding bridges with a dedicated gate comprising two passenger boarding bridges for the operations of the new Airbus A380, will be included in the proposed new complex.
• The furthest airport from Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) is Seymour Airport (GPS), which is located 11,614 miles (18,691 kilometers) away in Baltra Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
• Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) currently has only 1 runway.
• In 1964 Anil Moonesinghe, the Cabinet Minister of Communications, started the building of a new international airport to replace Ratmalana, with Canadian aid.
• The closest airport to Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) is Ratmalana Airport (RML), which is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) S of CMB.
• In addition to being known as "Bandaranaike International Airport", another name for CMB is "බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්‍යන්තර ගුවන්තොටුපළபண்டாரநாயக்க பன்னாட்டு விமான நிலையம்".