Nonstop flight route between Schefferville, Quebec, Canada and Long Beach, California, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Schefferville Airport (YKL), Schefferville, Quebec, Canada and Long Beach Airport (JLB), Long Beach, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,838 miles (or 4,567 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 Schefferville Airport and Long Beach 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 Schefferville Airport and Long Beach Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | YKL / CYKL |
Airport Name: | Schefferville Airport |
Location: | Schefferville, Quebec, Canada |
GPS Coordinates: | 54°48'19"N by 66°48'19"W |
Operator/Owner: | Société aéroportuaire de Schefferville |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 1709 feet (521 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from YKL |
More Information: | YKL Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | JLB / |
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Location: | Long Beach, California, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 33°49'4"N by 118°9'6"W |
Area Served: | Los Angeles and Orange counties |
Operator/Owner: | City of Long Beach |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 60 feet (18 meters) |
# of Runways: | 5 |
View all routes: | Routes from JLB |
More Information: | JLB Maps & Info |
Facts about Schefferville Airport (YKL):
- The furthest airport from Schefferville Airport (YKL) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 11,047 miles (17,778 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
- The closest airport to Schefferville Airport (YKL) is Wabush Airport (YWK), which is located 130 miles (209 kilometers) S of YKL.
- Schefferville Airport (YKL) currently has only 1 runway.
Facts about Long Beach Airport (JLB):
- Long Beach Airport handled 2,978,433 passengers last year.
- The closest airport to Long Beach Airport (JLB) is Long Beach Airport (LGB), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) N of JLB.
- The furthest airport from Long Beach Airport (JLB) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,489 miles (18,489 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
- In addition to being known as "Long Beach Airport", other names for JLB include "LGB", "KLGB" and "LGB".
- Between 1990 and 1992, Continental, Delta, TWA, and USAir ended service to the airport, as did American Airlines in early 2006.
- To attract the United States Navy, the City of Long Beach built a hangar and an administrative building and then offered to lease it to the Navy for $1 a year for the establishment of the Naval Reserve Air Base.
- The arrival of low-cost carrier JetBlue Airways at Long Beach Airport in 2001, and that airline's decision to establish a West Coast hub at LGB, has increased air traffic and has cemented LGB's standing as an alternative to LAX for flights to the East Coast.
- In 2009 Mario Rodriguez was appointed director.
- Long Beach Airport (JLB) has 5 runways.
- As the Navy's activities began to be shifted to Los Alamitos the Long Beach Army Airfield at Long Beach became the home of the Army's Air Transport Command's Ferrying Division, which included a squadron of 18 women pilots commanded by Barbara London, a long time Long Beach aviatrix.
- Because of Long Beach Airport's relatively low elevation of 60 feet, planes can take off or land at Long Beach 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.
- Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan used to fly regularly out of Daugherty Field.