Nonstop flight route between Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil and St. George's, Grenada:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Viracopos–Campinas International Airport (VCP), Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil and Maurice Bishop International Airport (GND), St. George's, Grenada would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,614 miles (or 4,207 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 Viracopos–Campinas International Airport and Maurice Bishop 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 Viracopos–Campinas International Airport and Maurice Bishop 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 Viracopos–Campinas International Airport (VCP):

• The airport is located 99 km northwest of the state capital city of São Paulo and 20 km southwest of Campinas, adjacent to the Bandeirantes-Anhanguera highway complex, which connects the capital city to the interior of São Paulo state.
• Being the second busiest cargo airport in Brazil, Viracopos has 77,000 square meters of cargo terminals, 1,700 square meters for animal cargo, and 1,480 cubic meters of refrigerated space.
• In addition to being known as "Viracopos–Campinas International Airport", another name for VCP is "Aeroporto Internacional de Viracopos–Campinas".
• The IATA airport code of Viracopos is VCP and the specific city code of Campinas is CPQ.
• The closest airport to Viracopos–Campinas International Airport (VCP) is Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ), which is located only 10 miles (17 kilometers) N of VCP.
• Viracopos–Campinas International Airport handled 8,824,074 passengers last year.
• However, due to legal and bureaucratic issues, the planned developments never occurred.
• Viracopos–Campinas International Airport (VCP) currently has only 1 runway.
• In the 1970s Viracopos became the international airport for São Paulo, because the runway of São Paulo-Congonhas Airport was too short to accommodate intercontinental jet planes.
• The furthest airport from Viracopos–Campinas International Airport (VCP) is Minami-Daito Airport (MMD), which is nearly antipodal to Viracopos–Campinas International Airport (meaning Viracopos–Campinas International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Minami-Daito Airport), and is located 12,216 miles (19,660 kilometers) away in Minami Daito, Okinawa, Japan.

Facts about Maurice Bishop International Airport (GND):

• The building of the airport — designed to replace the obsolete Pearls Airport on the north side of the island — was cited by U.S.
• The furthest airport from Maurice Bishop International Airport (GND) is Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport (WGP), which is nearly antipodal to Maurice Bishop International Airport (meaning Maurice Bishop International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport), and is located 12,222 miles (19,669 kilometers) away in Waingapu, Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
• The closest airport to Maurice Bishop International Airport (GND) is Lauriston Airport (CRU), which is located 39 miles (63 kilometers) NNE of GND.
• Maurice Bishop International Airport (GND) currently has only 1 runway.
• The airport houses the Grenada Outstation of the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority.
• Because of Maurice Bishop International Airport's relatively low elevation of 41 feet, planes can take off or land at Maurice Bishop 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.