Nonstop flight route between Trujillo, Peru and Butterworth, South Africa:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport (TRU), Trujillo, Peru and RMAF Butterworth (UTE), Butterworth, South Africa would travel a Great Circle distance of 12,253 miles (or 19,719 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 Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport and RMAF Butterworth, 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 Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport and RMAF Butterworth. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

The distance between TRU and UTE makes them almost exactly antipodal (the exact opposite side of the world) to each other. Nonstop flights between Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport and RMAF Butterworth would be very impractical for the airlines, because only a lightly loaded Boeing 777-200LR would be able to make the trip. Since airlines need to be able to take as many people and cargo as possible in order to make a profit, the odds of ever seeing a nonstop flight between TRU and UTE are slim to none. However, you'll still be able to get from Trujillo, Peru and Butterworth, South Africa by taking some connecting flights!

Did you know that one full circling of the Earth (measuring from the equator) is about 24,901.5 miles (or 40,075 kilometers), which means if you were 12,450 miles from any given point on the planet, the distance back to your starting point would be about the same -- in any direction! The same can be said for a nonstop flight between TRU and UTE!

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Facts about Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport (TRU):

• Because of Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport's relatively low elevation of 106 feet, planes can take off or land at Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos 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 furthest airport from Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport (TRU) is Hat Yai International Airport (HDY), which is nearly antipodal to Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport (meaning Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Hat Yai International Airport), and is located 12,350 miles (19,876 kilometers) away in Hat Yai, Songkhla Province, Thailand.
• The closest airport to Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport (TRU) is Mayor General FAP Armando Revoredo Iglesias (CJA), which is located 78 miles (125 kilometers) NNE of TRU.
• Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport (TRU) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about RMAF Butterworth (UTE):

• In addition to being known as "RMAF Butterworth", other names for UTE include "TUDM Butterworth", "BWH" and "WMKB".
• Because of RMAF Butterworth's relatively low elevation of 8 feet, planes can take off or land at RMAF Butterworth 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 furthest airport from RMAF Butterworth (UTE) is Cap. FAP Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport (PIU), which is nearly antipodal to RMAF Butterworth (meaning RMAF Butterworth is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Cap. FAP Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport), and is located 12,365 miles (19,900 kilometers) away in Piura, Peru.
• RMAF Butterworth (UTE) currently has only 1 runway.
• RAF Butterworth was officially opened in October 1941, as a Royal Air Force station which was a part of the British defence plan for defending the Malayan Peninsula against an imminent threat of invasion by the Imperial Japanese forces during World War II.
• The closest airport to RMAF Butterworth (UTE) is RMAF Butterworth (BWH), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) N of UTE.
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