Nonstop flight route between Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and Windhoek, Namibia:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Dortmund Airport (DTM), Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and Hosea Kutako International Airport (WDH), Windhoek, Namibia would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,148 miles (or 8,285 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 Dortmund Airport and Hosea Kutako International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.
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Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | DTM / EDLW |
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Location: | Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
GPS Coordinates: | 51°31'5"N by 7°36'43"E |
Area Served: | Dortmund and the eastern Rhine-Ruhr area, Germany |
Operator/Owner: | Flughafen Dortmund GmbH |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 425 feet (130 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from DTM |
More Information: | DTM Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | WDH / FYWH |
Airport Name: | Hosea Kutako International Airport |
Location: | Windhoek, Namibia |
GPS Coordinates: | 22°29'12"S by 17°27'44"E |
Operator/Owner: | Namibian Civil Government |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 5640 feet (1,719 meters) |
# of Runways: | 2 |
View all routes: | Routes from WDH |
More Information: | WDH Maps & Info |
Facts about Dortmund Airport (DTM):
- In addition to being known as "Dortmund Airport", another name for DTM is "Flughafen Dortmund".
- The closest airport to Dortmund Airport (DTM) is Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is located 40 miles (64 kilometers) WSW of DTM.
- The airport, originally located in the suburb of Brackel, was first served by commercial flights in 1925 by Aero Lloyd, which operated flights to Paris.
- Over the next decades Düsseldorf Airport and Cologne Bonn Airport were the dominant commercial airports in the Rhine-Ruhr Area.
- Dortmund Airport (DTM) currently has only 1 runway.
- The furthest airport from Dortmund Airport (DTM) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,872 miles (19,106 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- Because of Dortmund Airport's relatively low elevation of 425 feet, planes can take off or land at Dortmund 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.
- Since 2006 it has been carrying the name "Dortmund Airport 21", in reference to the fact that Dortmund's utility company, DSW21, is its major shareholder.
- The first mass carrier at Dortmund Airport was Air Berlin, which began flights to London, Milan, and Vienna in 2002, supplementing its leisure routes to the Mediterranean.
Facts about Hosea Kutako International Airport (WDH):
- The furthest airport from Hosea Kutako International Airport (WDH) is PMRF Barking Sands (BKH), which is nearly antipodal to Hosea Kutako International Airport (meaning Hosea Kutako International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from PMRF Barking Sands), and is located 12,258 miles (19,727 kilometers) away in Kekaha, Hawaii, United States.
- The closest airport to Hosea Kutako International Airport (WDH) is Eros Airport (ERS), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) WSW of WDH.
- Hosea Kutako International Airport handled 681,317 passengers last year.
- Few, if any, domestic flights pass through Hosea Kutako Airport as those are predominantly handled at the smaller Windhoek Eros Airport.
- Although Hosea Kutako International Airport is the main international airport of Namibia, the only direct international flights are to Angola, Botswana, Germany, Ghana, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- Hosea Kutako International Airport (WDH) has 2 runways.
- Because of Hosea Kutako International Airport's high elevation of 5,640 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at WDH. Combined with a high temperature, this could make WDH a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.