Nonstop flight route between Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico and Bălţi, Moldova:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport (ZCL), Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico and Bălți-Leadoveni International Airport (BZY), Bălţi, Moldova would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,666 miles (or 10,728 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 General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport and Bălți-Leadoveni 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 General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport and Bălți-Leadoveni 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 General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport (ZCL):

• General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport (ZCL) has 2 runways.
• The closest airport to General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport (ZCL) is Jesús Terán Peredo International Airport (AGU), which is located 86 miles (138 kilometers) SSE of ZCL.
• General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport handled 259,677 passengers last year.
• In addition to being known as "General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport", another name for ZCL is "Aeropuerto Internacional General Leobardo C. Ruiz".
• Because of General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport's high elevation of 7,141 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at ZCL. Combined with a high temperature, this could make ZCL a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The furthest airport from General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport (ZCL) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,513 miles (18,529 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.

Facts about Bălți-Leadoveni International Airport (BZY):

• The construction of infrastructure for Bălți International Airport started in the 1970s-1980s, in accordance with the project of the Central Architectural Bureau.
• Bălți-Leadoveni International Airport (BZY) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Bălți-Leadoveni International Airport (BZY) is Iași International Airport (IAS), which is located 46 miles (75 kilometers) S of BZY.
• As Moldova was experiencing economic crisis in the 1990s, the re-construction and modernization plans of the airport, as well as the whole aviation industry, were put on hold.
• Since the 1980s, Bălți International Airport became the most important airport in the north of Moldova.
• Because of Bălți-Leadoveni International Airport's relatively low elevation of 758 feet, planes can take off or land at Bălți-Leadoveni 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.
• In addition to being known as "Bălți-Leadoveni International Airport", another name for BZY is "Aeroportul Internațional Leadoveni".
• The furthest airport from Bălți-Leadoveni International Airport (BZY) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,243 miles (18,093 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.