Nonstop flight route between Tegel / Berlin, Germany and Ketapang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL), Tegel / Berlin, Germany and Rahadi Usman Airport (KTG), Ketapang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,598 miles (or 10,619 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 Berlin Tegel Airport and Rahadi Usman 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 Berlin Tegel Airport and Rahadi Usman Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL):

• It is situated in Tegel, a section of the northern borough of Reinickendorf, 8 km northwest of the city centre of Berlin.
• In the interim, a number of Boeing 737-200/200 Adv were leased from 1982.
• The closest airport to Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) is Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF), which is located only 8 miles (12 kilometers) SE of TXL.
• In addition to being known as "Berlin Tegel Airport", another name for TXL is "Flughafen Berlin-Tegel".
• Following the mid- to late 1960s' introduction by Pan American World Airways and British European Airways of jet aircraft with short-field capabilities that were not payload-restricted on Tempelhof's short runways, Air France experienced a traffic decline on those routes where it competed with Pan Am and BEA, mainly as a result of Tegel's greater distance and poorer accessibility from West Berlin's city centre.
• In 1988, Berlin Tegel was named after German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal.
• Initially, all commercial flights used the original terminal building, which was situated to the North of the runway, at what is today the military part of the airport.
• The arrival at Berlin Tegel of an Air France Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde on 17 January 1976 marked the Berlin debut of the Anglo-French supersonic airliner.
• Following the move to Tegel, Air France initially used Lockheed Super Constellation piston equipment on all Berlin flights.
• The furthest airport from Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,685 miles (18,805 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• From the start of the 1974–75 winter season, Pan Am began operating a series of short- and medium-haul week-end charter flights from Tegel under contract to a leading West German tour operator.
• Berlin Tegel Airport handled 19,591,849 passengers last year.
• Because of Berlin Tegel Airport's relatively low elevation of 122 feet, planes can take off or land at Berlin Tegel 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.
• Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) has 2 runways.

Facts about Rahadi Usman Airport (KTG):

• The closest airport to Rahadi Usman Airport (KTG) is Supadio International Airport (SPA) (PNK), which is located 121 miles (195 kilometers) NNW of KTG.
• Rahadi Usman Airport (KTG) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Rahadi Usman Airport", another name for KTG is "Bandar Udara Rahadi Usman".
• The furthest airport from Rahadi Usman Airport (KTG) is Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport (MVP), which is nearly antipodal to Rahadi Usman Airport (meaning Rahadi Usman Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport), and is located 12,396 miles (19,949 kilometers) away in Mitú, Colombia.
• Because of Rahadi Usman Airport's relatively low elevation of 46 feet, planes can take off or land at Rahadi Usman 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.