Nonstop flight route between Wanaka, New Zealand and Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Wanaka Airport (WKA), Wanaka, New Zealand and Perth Airport (PSL), Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 11,566 miles (or 18,614 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 Wanaka Airport and Perth 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 Wanaka Airport and Perth Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about Wanaka Airport (WKA):

• Wanaka Airport is the airport servicing the town of Wanaka, Otago, New Zealand and the surrounding ski fields.
• The closest airport to Wanaka Airport (WKA) is Queenstown Airport (ZQN), which is located 32 miles (52 kilometers) SW of WKA.
• At the moment the runway's PCN value is too low to cope with heavier aircraft, along with restrictions on the passenger capacity of aircraft due to the limited airport facilities, however larger aircraft can operate into the airport, usually on charter services.
• The lack of a VHF omnidirectional range beacon at the airport poses an issue for some aircraft.
• Wanaka Airport (WKA) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Wanaka Airport (WKA) is A Coruña Airport (LCG), which is nearly antipodal to Wanaka Airport (meaning Wanaka Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from A Coruña Airport), and is located 12,283 miles (19,768 kilometers) away in A Coruña, Spain.
• The airport is the site of the biennial Warbirds over Wanaka international airshow.

Facts about Perth Airport (PSL):

• The closest airport to Perth Airport (PSL) is Dundee Airport (DND), which is located only 13 miles (21 kilometers) E of PSL.
• The furthest airport from Perth Airport (PSL) is Ryan's Creek Aerodrome (SZS), which is located 11,684 miles (18,804 kilometers) away in Stewart Island, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Perth Airport", another name for PSL is "Perth (Scone) Airport".
• Perth Airport (PSL) has 3 runways.
• Because of Perth Airport's relatively low elevation of 397 feet, planes can take off or land at Perth 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.
• By 1960 Airwork acquired Air Service Training an engineering training school, which it relocated from the south of England to the airport.