Nonstop flight route between Mataiva, French Polynesia and Munich, Bavaria, Germany:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Mataiva Airport (MVT), Mataiva, French Polynesia and Munich Airport (MUC), Munich, Bavaria, Germany would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,871 miles (or 15,886 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 Mataiva Airport and Munich 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 Mataiva Airport and Munich Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Mataiva Airport (MVT):

• The furthest airport from Mataiva Airport (MVT) is Khartoum International Airport (KRT), which is nearly antipodal to Mataiva Airport (meaning Mataiva Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Khartoum International Airport), and is located 12,339 miles (19,858 kilometers) away in Khartoum, Sudan.
• Because of Mataiva Airport's relatively low elevation of 0 feet, planes can take off or land at Mataiva 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.
• The closest airport to Mataiva Airport (MVT) is Arutua Airport (AXR), which is located 142 miles (228 kilometers) E of MVT.

Facts about Munich Airport (MUC):

• In addition to being known as "Munich Airport", another name for MUC is "Flughafen München".
• Munich Airport handled 38,672,644 passengers last year.
• The closest airport to Munich Airport (MUC) is Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (FEL), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) WSW of MUC.
• The terminal is operated by Terminal-2-Betriebsgesellschaft, which is owned by Flughafen München GmbH and Lufthansa.
• The Franz-Josef Strauss Airport has two parallel runways and one helipad.
• The furthest airport from Munich Airport (MUC) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,933 miles (19,204 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Terminal 1 currently handles all flights from airlines that are not members of Star Alliance.
• Due to the rapid increase in traffic Munich is currently slot constrained and a third runway is now being planned.
• Munich Airport (MUC) has 2 runways.
• While Terminal 1 still has plenty of capacity left – in 2007, it only handled about 9 m passengers – the extension of Terminal 2 is required by Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners to allow easy transfers within a single terminal.