Nonstop flight route between Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States and Galle, Sri Lanka:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tulsa International Airport (TUL), Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States and Koggala Airport (KCT), Galle, Sri Lanka would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,511 miles (or 15,307 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 Tulsa International Airport and Koggala 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 Tulsa International Airport and Koggala Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Tulsa International Airport (TUL):

• The furthest airport from Tulsa International Airport (TUL) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,743 miles (17,289 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Tulsa International Airport handled 2,794,469 passengers last year.
• The 138th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard is based here.
• Because of Tulsa International Airport's relatively low elevation of 677 feet, planes can take off or land at Tulsa 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 closest airport to Tulsa International Airport (TUL) is Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport (RVS), which is located only 12 miles (20 kilometers) SSW of TUL.
• In 1932, the city opened a more elegant Art Deco terminal topped with a control tower.
• TUL is the headquarters for all Maintenance and Engineering activities at American Airlines worldwide, and is the maintenance base for the airline's fleet of MD-80, Boeing 757, and Boeing 737 and some Boeing 767 aircraft – a combined total of nearly 600 airplanes.
• The April 1957 OAG shows 20 departures each weekday on American, 18 Braniff, 6 Continental, 6 Central and 4 TWA.
• Tulsa International Airport is a city-owned civil-military airport five miles northeast of downtown Tulsa, in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States.
• Spirit AeroSystems builds Boeing Wing and floor beam parts and Gulfstream Wing parts in a facility on the east side of the airport, just north of runway 26.
• The first terminal building was a one-story wood and tar paper structure that looked like a warehouse.
• In June 1946, American Airlines built a maintenance and engineering base at Tulsa Municipal Airport.
• Richard Lloyd Jones Jr.
• Tulsa International Airport (TUL) has 3 runways.

Facts about Koggala Airport (KCT):

• Meanwhile, the tarmac surface of the land runway was developed.
• The Government of Sri Lanka expects to upgrade the Koggala airport to international standards as an alternative airport to the BIA.
• Because of Koggala Airport's relatively low elevation of 10 feet, planes can take off or land at Koggala 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.
• QEA and Imperial Airways flew Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats from Koggala lake to the Swan River at Perth, on what was at the time the world's longest non-stop air route.
• In addition to being known as "Koggala Airport", another name for KCT is "කොග්ගල ගුවන්තොටුපළ".
• The closest airport to Koggala Airport (KCT) is Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI), which is located 59 miles (95 kilometers) ENE of KCT.
• The furthest airport from Koggala Airport (KCT) is Seymour Airport (GPS), which is located 11,683 miles (18,802 kilometers) away in Baltra Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.