Nonstop flight route between Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India and Asau, Samoa:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Vijayawada Airport (VGA), Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India and Asau Airport (AAU), Asau, Samoa would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,568 miles (or 12,180 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 Vijayawada Airport and Asau 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 Vijayawada Airport and Asau Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Vijayawada Airport (VGA):

• Vijayawada Airport (VGA) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Vijayawada Airport (VGA) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is located 11,459 miles (18,441 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.
• In addition to being known as "Vijayawada Airport", other names for VGA include "Gannavaram Airport" and "VOBZ".
• The closest airport to Vijayawada Airport (VGA) is Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (HYD), which is located 156 miles (251 kilometers) WNW of VGA.
• Private airlines, Spicejet and Jet Airways introduced a direct flight from Gannavaram to Hyderabad.
• Because of Vijayawada Airport's relatively low elevation of 82 feet, planes can take off or land at Vijayawada 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.
• Vijayawada Airport is situated at a distance of 18 kilometers from the city of Vijayawada on National Highway 5 connecting Chennai to Kolkata.

Facts about Asau Airport (AAU):

• The small tarmac can only fit two Twin Otter planes, with an aircraft parking shed located near the tarmac.
• Only Twin Otter and Britten-Norman Islander planes can land and take off this small airport, generally because the runway and tarmac cannot handle any other larger and heavier aircraft.
• Asau Airport is a small domestic airfield located in the thick dense jungle at the northwest end of Savai'i in Samoa.
• The furthest airport from Asau Airport (AAU) is Maradi Airport (MFQ), which is nearly antipodal to Asau Airport (meaning Asau Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Maradi Airport), and is located 12,419 miles (19,987 kilometers) away in Maradi, Niger.
• The closest airport to Asau Airport (AAU) is Maota (Salelologa) Airport (MXS), which is located 30 miles (48 kilometers) ESE of AAU.
• In 2003, a cyclone swept past Samoa and most of the South Pacific.