Nonstop flight route between Gander, Newfoundland, Canada and Marília, São Paulo, Brazil:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Gander International Airport (YQX), Gander, Newfoundland, Canada and Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State Airport (MII), Marília, São Paulo, Brazil would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,923 miles (or 7,923 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 Gander International Airport and Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State 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 Gander International Airport and Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Gander International Airport (YQX):

• A major reason that Gander received so much traffic was partly due to its ability to handle large aircraft, but primarily because Transport Canada and Nav Canada instructed pilots coming from Europe to avoid the airports in major urban centres of Central Canada, like Lester B.
• The furthest airport from Gander International Airport (YQX) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 11,395 miles (18,338 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• In 1940, the operation of the Newfoundland Airport was assigned by the Dominion of Newfoundland to the Royal Canadian Air Force and it was renamed RCAF Station Gander in 1941.
• In March 2010, Sun Country Airlines announced that it would use Gander as a refueling stop for its new summer 2010 service between Minneapolis and London Stansted Airport and for its summer 2011 service between Minneapolis and London Gatwick Airport.
• To honour the people of Gander and Halifax for their support during the operation, Lufthansa named a new Airbus A340-300 "Gander/Halifax" on May 16, 2002.
• Following Newfoundland's entry into Confederation, the government renamed the airport Gander Airport and it came under the administration of Canada's federal Department of Transport.
• The closest airport to Gander International Airport (YQX) is St. John's International Airport (YYT), which is located 124 miles (199 kilometers) SE of YQX.
• Because of Gander International Airport's relatively low elevation of 496 feet, planes can take off or land at Gander 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.
• Gander International Airport (YQX) has 2 runways.

Facts about Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State Airport (MII):

• Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State Airport handled 92,437 passengers last year.
• The airport is located 3 km from downtown Marília.
• The furthest airport from Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State Airport (MII) is Minami-Daito Airport (MMD), which is nearly antipodal to Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State Airport (meaning Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Minami-Daito Airport), and is located 12,174 miles (19,591 kilometers) away in Minami Daito, Okinawa, Japan.
• Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State Airport (MII) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State Airport", another name for MII is "Aeroporto Estadual Frank Miloye Milenkowichi".
• It was at this airport that on January 7, 1961 TAM – Táxi Aéreo Marília, the forerunner of TAM Airlines started its operations as a company specialized in general aviation.
• The closest airport to Frank Miloye Milenkowichi State Airport (MII) is Marcelo Pires Halzhausen State Airport (AIF), which is located 46 miles (73 kilometers) SW of MII.