Nonstop flight route between Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada and Santiago, Dominican Republic:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between CFB Cold Lake (YOD), Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada and Cibao International Airport (STI), Santiago, Dominican Republic would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,189 miles (or 5,132 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 CFB Cold Lake and Cibao 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 CFB Cold Lake and Cibao 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 CFB Cold Lake (YOD):

• Cold Lake also hosts NATO flight training operating from 15 Wing Moose Jaw, as well as 5 Wing Goose Bay.
• The closest airport to CFB Cold Lake (YOD) is Bonnyville Airport (YBY), which is located only 20 miles (32 kilometers) WSW of YOD.
• CLAWR is the northern equivalent to the United States Air Force's Nellis Air Force Range and provides a different training environment with heavy boreal forest and numerous lakes more closely resembling European terrain.
• CFB Cold Lake (YOD) has 3 runways.
• The furthest airport from CFB Cold Lake (YOD) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 10,097 miles (16,250 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• "The relatively unrestricted Cold Lake Air Weapons Range represents one of the largest live-drop training ranges in the world and is the largest low-level flying area in North America.
• In addition to being known as "CFB Cold Lake", another name for YOD is "Cold Lake/Group Captain R.W. McNair Airport".

Facts about Cibao International Airport (STI):

• The furthest airport from Cibao International Airport (STI) is RAAF Learmonth (LEA), which is nearly antipodal to Cibao International Airport (meaning Cibao International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from RAAF Learmonth), and is located 12,076 miles (19,435 kilometers) away in Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia.
• Cibao International Airport (STI) currently has only 1 runway.
• On January 9, 2009, Spirit Airlines announced operations to Santiago City from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, starting on June 21, 2009.
• Because of Cibao International Airport's relatively low elevation of 565 feet, planes can take off or land at Cibao 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 airport was inaugurated on March 18, 2002 with two direct flights to San Juan operated by American Eagle.
• In 2003 Aeromar Líneas Aéreas Dominicanas stopped their flights into Santiago after the airline stopped operations.
• Runway 11/29 is one of the most modern runways in the country.
• In addition to being known as "Cibao International Airport", another name for STI is "Aeropuerto Internacional del Cibao".
• Cibao International Airport handled 1,092,229 passengers last year.
• Spirit Airlines, which run as the fifth largest carrier, took over the fourth place from Copa Airlines, operating a daily flight to Fort Lauderdale with Airbus A320 family aircraft.
• The closest airport to Cibao International Airport (STI) is Gregorio Luperón International Airport (POP), which is located 24 miles (39 kilometers) N of STI.