Nonstop flight route between Zürich, Switzerland and Las Vegas, Nevada, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Zurich Airport (ZRH), Zürich, Switzerland and McCarran International Airport (LAS), Las Vegas, Nevada, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,699 miles (or 9,172 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 Zurich Airport and McCarran 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 Zurich Airport and McCarran International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | ZRH / LSZH |
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Location: | Zürich, Switzerland |
GPS Coordinates: | 47°27'52"N by 8°32'57"E |
Area Served: | Zürich, Switzerland |
Operator/Owner: | Flughafen Zürich AG |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 1416 feet (432 meters) |
# of Runways: | 4 |
View all routes: | Routes from ZRH |
More Information: | ZRH Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | LAS / KLAS |
Airport Name: | McCarran International Airport |
Location: | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 36°4'47"N by 115°9'7"W |
Area Served: | Las Vegas, Nevada |
Operator/Owner: | Clark County |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 2181 feet (665 meters) |
# of Runways: | 4 |
View all routes: | Routes from LAS |
More Information: | LAS Maps & Info |
Facts about Zurich Airport (ZRH):
- In addition to being known as "Zurich Airport", another name for ZRH is "Flughafen Zürich".
- The airport lost a lot of traffic when Swissair shut down its operations.
- The airport is served by the A51 motorway and other main roads, which provide access to the airport especially for the central and eastern Switzerland.
- The airport has three airside piers, which are known as docks A, B and E.
- Zurich Airport handled 24,865,138 passengers last year.
- The closest airport to Zurich Airport (ZRH) is Emmen Swiss Air Base (EML), which is located 28 miles (45 kilometers) SSW of ZRH.
- Zurich Airport (ZRH) has 4 runways.
- The first flight abroad from Switzerland was on July 21, 1921, but the search for a location for a major airport wasn’t started until 1943 inside the Canton of Zürich.
- The furthest airport from Zurich Airport (ZRH) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Zurich Airport (meaning Zurich Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,087 miles (19,453 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- In front of the terminal is a regional bus station and the airport stop of the Stadtbahn Glattal, a light rail system.
Facts about McCarran International Airport (LAS):
- The closest airport to McCarran International Airport (LAS) is Henderson Executive Airport (HSH), which is located only 7 miles (12 kilometers) S of LAS.
- McCarran International Airport handled 40,933,037 passengers last year.
- McCarran International Airport (LAS) has 4 runways.
- In 2004 McCarran handled 201,135,520 pounds of cargo.
- The US Airways night-flight hub operation, established in 1986 by predecessor America West Airlines, made the carrier McCarran's second busiest airline.
- The furthest airport from McCarran International Airport (LAS) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,305 miles (18,194 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
- On October 16, 2003 the airport installed SpeedCheck kiosks which allow customers to obtain a boarding pass without having to go to a specific airline kiosk or counter.
- The terminal moved from Las Vegas Boulevard South to Paradise Road, opening on March 15, 1963.
- The largest scheduled airlines at McCarran by passengers carried in the first 11 months of 2009 are Southwest Airlines, US Airways/US Airways Express, United Airlines/United Express, Delta Air Lines/Delta Connection, and American Airlines.