Nonstop flight route between Fort Collins/Loveland, Colorado, United States and Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL), Fort Collins/Loveland, Colorado, United States and Chatham Islands (CHT), Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,319 miles (or 11,779 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 Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport and Chatham Islands, 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 Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport and Chatham Islands. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | FNL / KFNL |
Airport Name: | Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport |
Location: | Fort Collins/Loveland, Colorado, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 40°27'6"N by 105°0'41"W |
Area Served: | Fort Collins / Loveland, Colorado |
Operator/Owner: | Fort Collins & Loveland |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 5016 feet (1,529 meters) |
# of Runways: | 2 |
View all routes: | Routes from FNL |
More Information: | FNL Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | CHT / NZCI |
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Location: | Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand |
GPS Coordinates: | 43°48'36"S by 176°27'25"W |
Operator/Owner: | New Zealand Government |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 43 feet (13 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from CHT |
More Information: | CHT Maps & Info |
Facts about Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL):
- As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 31,094 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 31,079 enplanements in 2009, and 35,671 in 2010.
- Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL) has 2 runways.
- The airport is situated west of Interstate 25 and Denver is located about 55 miles south.
- The closest airport to Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL) is Greeley-Weld County Airport (GXY), which is located only 20 miles (32 kilometers) E of FNL.
- FNL is jointly owned and operated by the two cities of Loveland and Fort Collins.
- Because of Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport's high elevation of 5,016 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at FNL. Combined with a high temperature, this could make FNL a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
- The airport was served by Allegiant Air until October 2012.
- The furthest airport from Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,850 miles (17,462 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
Facts about Chatham Islands (CHT):
- The airport was completed in 1982 to replace an earlier built compacted grass airstrip at Te Hapupu that could only handle slow flying Safe Air Bristol Freighter aircraft.
- In addition to being known as "Chatham Islands", another name for CHT is "Tuuta Airport".
- The closest airport to Chatham Islands (CHT) is Hood Aerodrome (MRO), which is located 448 miles (722 kilometers) WNW of CHT.
- Air Chathams operate services to Auckland, to Christchurch, and to Wellington operating Convair 580 aircraft, on the following days.
- Chatham Islands (CHT) currently has only 1 runway.
- Because of Chatham Islands's relatively low elevation of 43 feet, planes can take off or land at Chatham Islands 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 2012 The New Zealand Government announced plans to develop the airport as part of an overall Economic Plan for the Chatham Islands.
- The furthest airport from Chatham Islands (CHT) is Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport (MPL), which is nearly antipodal to Chatham Islands (meaning Chatham Islands is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport), and is located 12,410 miles (19,972 kilometers) away in Montpellier, France.