Nonstop flight route between Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada and Bogotá, Colombia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Medicine Hat Airport (YXH), Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada and El Dorado International Airport (BOG), Bogotá, Colombia would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,783 miles (or 6,088 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 Medicine Hat Airport and El Dorado 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 Medicine Hat Airport and El Dorado 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 Medicine Hat Airport (YXH):

• The furthest airport from Medicine Hat Airport (YXH) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 10,339 miles (16,639 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• The closest airport to Medicine Hat Airport (YXH) is CFB Suffield (YSD), which is located 27 miles (43 kilometers) NW of YXH.
• Medicine Hat Airport (YXH) has 2 runways.

Facts about El Dorado International Airport (BOG):

• The Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics is located in the new Aerocivil Building, located on the airport property.
• In addition to being known as "El Dorado International Airport", another name for BOG is "Aeropuerto Internacional El Dorado".
• El Dorado Passenger Terminal was designed during the government of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.
• In 1981, Avianca undertook the construction of a new exclusive terminal to be called the Puente Aéreo, which was eventually inaugurated by President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala Avianca's original purpose for the terminal was for flights serving Cali, Medellín, Miami and New York.
• The furthest airport from El Dorado International Airport (BOG) is Gunung Batin Airport (AKQ), which is nearly antipodal to El Dorado International Airport (meaning El Dorado International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Gunung Batin Airport), and is located 12,394 miles (19,946 kilometers) away in Astraksetra, Indonesia.
• El Dorado is the most important airport in Colombia, accounting for 49% of the total air traffic in the country.
• The "Puente Aéreo" is currently Terminal 2.
• This allowed them to streamline their operations by using space previously assigned to customs and immigration for passenger gates and lounges.
• El Dorado International Airport (BOG) has 2 runways.
• In 1973, the airport accomplished a milestone by serving nearly three million passengers and processing nearly 5 million units of luggage.
• The closest airport to El Dorado International Airport (BOG) is Santiago Vila Airport (GIR), which is located 54 miles (86 kilometers) WSW of BOG.
• Because of El Dorado International Airport's high elevation of 8,361 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at BOG. Combined with a high temperature, this could make BOG a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.