Nonstop flight route between Viqueque, East Timor and Charleroi, Wallonia, Belgium:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Viqueque Airport (VIQ), Viqueque, East Timor and Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL), Charleroi, Wallonia, Belgium would travel a Great Circle distance of 8,074 miles (or 12,993 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 Viqueque Airport and Brussels South Charleroi 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 Viqueque Airport and Brussels South Charleroi Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | VIQ / WPVQ |
Airport Name: | Viqueque Airport |
Location: | Viqueque, East Timor |
GPS Coordinates: | 8°53'2"S by 126°22'23"E |
Elevation: | 0 feet (0 meters) |
View all routes: | Routes from VIQ |
More Information: | VIQ Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | CRL / EBCI |
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Location: | Charleroi, Wallonia, Belgium |
GPS Coordinates: | 50°27'36"N by 4°27'10"E |
Area Served: | Charleroi, Belgium |
Operator/Owner: | Government of Walloon Region |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 614 feet (187 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from CRL |
More Information: | CRL Maps & Info |
Facts about Viqueque Airport (VIQ):
- The closest airport to Viqueque Airport (VIQ) is Baucau Airport (BCH), which is located 28 miles (44 kilometers) N of VIQ.
- The furthest airport from Viqueque Airport (VIQ) is Albina Airstrip (ABN), which is nearly antipodal to Viqueque Airport (meaning Viqueque Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Albina Airstrip), and is located 12,202 miles (19,638 kilometers) away in Albina, Suriname.
- Because of Viqueque Airport's relatively low elevation of 0 feet, planes can take off or land at Viqueque 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.
Facts about Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL):
- Because of Brussels South Charleroi Airport's relatively low elevation of 614 feet, planes can take off or land at Brussels South Charleroi 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.
- During World War II, the site was arranged as an Advanced Landing Ground for the allied air forces, from 14 September 1944 until 10 August 1945.
- Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) currently has only 1 runway.
- Brussels South Charleroi Airport, also called Charleroi Airport or Gosselies Airport, is located in Gosselies, a part of the city of Charleroi, 46 kilometres south of central Brussels, in Wallonia.
- In the 1970s, the Belgian national airline Sabena launched a Liège-Charleroi-London service, but this was soon dropped because of poor results.
- The closest airport to Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) is Brussels Airport (BRU), which is located 31 miles (49 kilometers) N of CRL.
- Operations at Brussels-South Charleroi grew in the 1990s, with a new commercial management structure and the arrival of Irish low cost airline Ryanair in 1997, which opened its first continental base at Charleroi a few years later.
- Brussels South Charleroi Airport handled 6,516,427 passengers last year.
- The furthest airport from Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,975 miles (19,272 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- Gosselies airfield became a public aerodrome after World War II, but the main activities of the site remained aeronautical constructions.
- A new terminal opened in January 2008.
- A special bus operates to Charleroi-South railway station.
- In addition to being known as "Brussels South Charleroi Airport", another name for CRL is "Aéroport de Charleroi Bruxelles Sud".