Nonstop flight route between Upington, South Africa and Puerto Montt, Chile:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Upington Airport (UTN), Upington, South Africa and El Tepual International Airport (PMC), Puerto Montt, Chile would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,158 miles (or 8,301 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 Upington Airport and El Tepual 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 Upington Airport and El Tepual International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Upington Airport (UTN):

• The Concorde did flight testing at Upington Airport in June 1976.
• From August 1976 to December 1996, South African Airways made use of Upington as a refuelling station for two weekly scheduled Boeing 747 flights to London and Zurich.
• Upington Airport was opened in 1968 as Pierre van Ryneveld Airport.
• The closest airport to Upington Airport (UTN) is Johan Pienaar Airport (KMH), which is located 147 miles (236 kilometers) ENE of UTN.
• The furthest airport from Upington Airport (UTN) is Princeville Airport (HPV), which is nearly antipodal to Upington Airport (meaning Upington Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Princeville Airport), and is located 12,007 miles (19,323 kilometers) away in Hanalei, Hawaii, United States.
• Many major car manufacturers bring their cars and commercial vehicles to Upington to test them in the hot dry and sunny conditions.
• Upington Airport (UTN) has 3 runways.

Facts about El Tepual International Airport (PMC):

• Because of El Tepual International Airport's relatively low elevation of 294 feet, planes can take off or land at El Tepual 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.
• In addition to being known as "El Tepual International Airport", another name for PMC is "Aeropuerto Internacional El Tepual".
• A new terminal was inaugurated in February 2010, having increased the number of jetways from 2 to 5, as well as improving the check-in area, baggage claim, airport security, heating system and other airport facilities as well as significantly enlarging the parking lot.
• LAN Airlines, as Lan Chile is currently known, has kept on operating services regularly at the airport along with more recent startups such as Sky Airline, with a number of charter airlines also flying to El Tepual.
• El Tepual International Airport (PMC) currently has only 1 runway.
• El Tepual International Airport handled 1,000,000 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from El Tepual International Airport (PMC) is Wuhai Airport (WUA), which is nearly antipodal to El Tepual International Airport (meaning El Tepual International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Wuhai Airport), and is located 12,323 miles (19,832 kilometers) away in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China.
• The closest airport to El Tepual International Airport (PMC) is Frutillar Airport (FRT), which is located 21 miles (34 kilometers) N of PMC.