Nonstop flight route between Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada and Lake Manyara, Tanzania:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Kamloops Airport (YKA), Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada and Lake Manyara Airport (LKY), Lake Manyara, Tanzania would travel a Great Circle distance of 8,888 miles (or 14,303 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 Kamloops Airport and Lake Manyara 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 Kamloops Airport and Lake Manyara Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | YKA / CYKA |
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| Location: | Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada |
| GPS Coordinates: | 50°42'9"N by 120°26'54"W |
| Operator/Owner: | Kamloops Airport Authority Society |
| Airport Type: | Public |
| Elevation: | 1133 feet (345 meters) |
| # of Runways: | 2 |
| View all routes: | Routes from YKA |
| More Information: | YKA Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | LKY / HTLM |
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| Location: | Lake Manyara, Tanzania |
| GPS Coordinates: | 3°22'32"S by 35°49'5"E |
| Area Served: | Lake Manyara National Park |
| Operator/Owner: | Government of Tanzania |
| Airport Type: | Public |
| Elevation: | 4150 feet (1,265 meters) |
| # of Runways: | 1 |
| View all routes: | Routes from LKY |
| More Information: | LKY Maps & Info |
Facts about Kamloops Airport (YKA):
- The airport is located on 3035 Airport Road in the Brocklehurst neighbourhood of north Kamloops, 5 nautical miles west northwest of city centre and Selkirk Mountains, situated off Tranquille Road on the Fraser Plateau.
- The closest airport to Kamloops Airport (YKA) is Merritt Airport (YMB), which is located 42 miles (68 kilometers) SSW of YKA.
- On July 31, 2010, a Convair CV-580 airtanker operated by Convair Aviation, on route to the Kamloops Airport, crashed and was destroyed due to a local forest fire on the British Columbia Ministry of Forests land near Siwash Road, some 15 kilometres south of Lytton, British Columbia, a town in the Thompson region, along with Kamloops.
- Kamloops Airport handled 275,424 passengers last year.
- The furthest airport from Kamloops Airport (YKA) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 10,541 miles (16,964 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
- In addition to being known as "Kamloops Airport", another name for YKA is "Fulton Field".
- By 1951, the airport founded and became headquarters of Central British Columbia Airways, which was later known as Pacific Western Airlines, but is no longer existent.
- Kamloops Airport (YKA) has 2 runways.
Facts about Lake Manyara Airport (LKY):
- The closest airport to Lake Manyara Airport (LKY) is Arusha Airport (ARK), which is located 55 miles (89 kilometers) E of LKY.
- The furthest airport from Lake Manyara Airport (LKY) is Cassidy International Airport (CXI), which is located 11,523 miles (18,544 kilometers) away in Christmas Island, Kiribati.
- Because of Lake Manyara Airport's high elevation of 4,150 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at LKY. Combined with a high temperature, this could make LKY a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
- In addition to being known as "Lake Manyara Airport", another name for LKY is "Uwanja wa Ndege wa Ziwa Manyara (Swahili)".
- Lake Manyara Airport (LKY) currently has only 1 runway.
