Nonstop flight route between Ust-Kut, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia and Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Ust-Kut Airport (UKX), Ust-Kut, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia and Shigatse Peace Airport (RKZ), Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,061 miles (or 3,317 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 relatively short distance between Ust-Kut Airport and Shigatse Peace Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Ust-Kut Airport (UKX):

• Air traffic control provides Ust-Kut Department "Air Navigation of Eastern Siberia" FSUE Unitary enterprise "State ATM Corporation".Monitoring weather and meteoconsultation ANO "Irkutsk Meteoagency"
• Drive to the airport by car from crossing the bypass road and Nekrasov street.
• Ust-Kut Airport (UKX) currently has only 1 runway.
• Airport "Ust-Kut" is the third the size of the airport of regional significance in the Irkutsk Oblast.
• In addition to being known as "Ust-Kut Airport", another name for UKX is "Аэропорт Усть-Кут".
• The closest airport to Ust-Kut Airport (UKX) is Kirensk Airport (KCK), which is located 108 miles (173 kilometers) NE of UKX.
• In 1966, the airport received the first cargo plane Antonov An-12.
• Ust-Kut Airport handled 24,291 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Ust-Kut Airport (UKX) is Ushuaia International Airport (USH), which is nearly antipodal to Ust-Kut Airport (meaning Ust-Kut Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Ushuaia International Airport), and is located 12,167 miles (19,580 kilometers) away in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

Facts about Shigatse Peace Airport (RKZ):

• Shigatse Peace Airport (RKZ) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Shigatse Peace Airport (RKZ) is Lhasa Gonggar Airport (LXA), which is located 97 miles (156 kilometers) E of RKZ.
• The furthest airport from Shigatse Peace Airport (RKZ) is Carriel Sur International Airport (CCP), which is located 11,297 miles (18,181 kilometers) away in Concepción, Bío Bío Region, Chile.
• In addition to being known as "Shigatse Peace Airport", other names for RKZ include "日喀则和平机场" and "Rìkāzé Hépíng Jīchǎng".
• Because of Shigatse Peace Airport's high elevation of 12,408 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at RKZ. Combined with a high temperature, this could make RKZ a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.