Nonstop flight route between Tête-à-la-Baleine, Quebec, Canada and Zürich, Switzerland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport (ZTB), Tête-à-la-Baleine, Quebec, Canada and Zurich Airport (ZRH), Zürich, Switzerland would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,973 miles (or 4,785 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 Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport and Zurich 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 Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport and Zurich Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport (ZTB):

• The furthest airport from Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport (ZTB) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 11,341 miles (18,251 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport (ZTB) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport (ZTB) is Chevery Airport (YHR), which is located only 18 miles (29 kilometers) SW of ZTB.
• Because of Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport's relatively low elevation of 107 feet, planes can take off or land at Tête-à-la-Baleine 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 "Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport", another name for ZTB is "CTB6".

Facts about Zurich Airport (ZRH):

• Zurich Airport (ZRH) has 4 runways.
• The noise of aircraft became an issue and a noise charge was instituted in 1980, and in 1984, an agreement was made regarding arrivals and departures to the airport via German airspace.
• The ground-side terminal complex comprises several buildings, and includes several airline check-in areas, a shopping mall, a railway station, car parks, and a bus and tram terminal.
• When Swissair existed, its head office was at Zurich Airport and in Kloten.
• 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.
• In addition to being known as "Zurich Airport", another name for ZRH is "Flughafen Zürich".
• Zurich Airport handled 24,865,138 passengers last year.
• 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.
• The closest airport to Zurich Airport (ZRH) is Emmen Swiss Air Base (EML), which is located 28 miles (45 kilometers) SSW of ZRH.
• The first expansion of the airport was submitted in 1956, but the budget for the expansion was not approved by the Swiss Government until 1958 and the expansion was completed in 1961.