Nonstop flight route between Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and Brussels, Belgium:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Fredericton International Airport (YFC), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and Brussels Airport (BRU), Brussels, Belgium would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,150 miles (or 5,069 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 Fredericton International Airport and Brussels 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 Fredericton International Airport and Brussels Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Fredericton International Airport (YFC):

• The airport is classified as an airport of entry by NAV CANADA and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency.
• Fredericton International Airport handled 273,968 passengers last year.
• The closest airport to Fredericton International Airport (YFC) is 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown, (YCX), which is located only 5 miles (9 kilometers) ESE of YFC.
• The airport has two runways and is the second busiest airport in New Brunswick in terms of passenger levels, after the Greater Moncton International Airport.
• Because of Fredericton International Airport's relatively low elevation of 67 feet, planes can take off or land at Fredericton 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.
• The furthest airport from Fredericton International Airport (YFC) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 11,648 miles (18,746 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• Fredericton was designated an international airport in 2007 by Transport Canada.
• Fredericton International Airport (YFC) has 2 runways.

Facts about Brussels Airport (BRU):

• Brussels Airlines has its corporate head office in the b.house, Airport Building 26, located in Diegem, Machelen.
• Brussels Airport handled 19,133,222 passengers last year.
• Brussels Airport (BRU) has 3 runways.
• During the boom of commercial aviation in the 1960s and 1970s, several hangars were constructed.
• Pier A is connected to the main building via a 400 metres long tunnel under the tarmac.
• The closest airport to Brussels Airport (BRU) is Antwerp International Airport (ANR), which is located only 20 miles (32 kilometers) N of BRU.
• In addition to being known as "Brussels Airport", another name for BRU is "Luchthaven Brussel-Nationaal (Dutch)Aéroport de Bruxelles-National (French)".
• After the liberation, the German infrastructure at Melsbroek fell into the hands of the British.
• Because of Brussels Airport's relatively low elevation of 184 feet, planes can take off or land at Brussels 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.
• The furthest airport from Brussels Airport (BRU) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,945 miles (19,223 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• On 18 February 2013, in the 2013 Belgium diamond heist, eight men armed with automatic weapons and dressed in police uniforms seized 120 small parcels containing an estimated US$50 million worth of diamonds off of a Helvetic Airways Fokker 100 passenger plane loaded with passengers preparing for departure to Zurich, Switzerland.