Nonstop flight route between Manston, Kent, England, United Kingdom and Amami Island, Japan:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Manston Airport (MSE), Manston, Kent, England, United Kingdom and Amami Airport (ASJ), Amami Island, Japan would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,096 miles (or 9,811 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 Manston Airport and Amami 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 Manston Airport and Amami Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | MSE / EGMH |
Airport Name: | Manston Airport |
Location: | Manston, Kent, England, United Kingdom |
GPS Coordinates: | 51°20'31"N by 1°20'45"E |
Operator/Owner: | Manston Skyport Ltd c/o Ann Gloag since 29 Nov 2013 |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 178 feet (54 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from MSE |
More Information: | MSE Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | ASJ / RJKA |
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Location: | Amami Island, Japan |
GPS Coordinates: | 28°25'50"N by 129°42'45"E |
Area Served: | Amami Ōshima (Amami Island), Japan |
Operator/Owner: | Government |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 14 feet (4 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from ASJ |
More Information: | ASJ Maps & Info |
Facts about Manston Airport (MSE):
- The furthest airport from Manston Airport (MSE) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,906 miles (19,162 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- Manston Airport handled 8,595 passengers last year.
- Newmarket Holidays continues to offer irregular charter flights during the summer months to popular destinations including Verona and Naples in Italy, as well as Porto in Portugal using the Lithuanian charter airline Small Planet Airlines for the summer 2013 season.
- On 25 March 2014 KLM announced the suspension of their flights to Amsterdam from 10 April, leaving the airport without any scheduled passenger traffic.
- Manston was by now becoming known as a commercial airport.
- Because of Manston Airport's relatively low elevation of 178 feet, planes can take off or land at Manston 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 Manston Airport (MSE) is Lympne Airport (LYM), which is located 23 miles (37 kilometers) SW of MSE.
- Manston Airport (MSE) currently has only 1 runway.
- The sale of Manston to Infratil, a company based in Wellington, New Zealand and owner of Glasgow Prestwick Airport, was completed on 26 August 2005.
- Rapid development began in 2004 in an attempt to make it a budget airline hub.
- The airport closed on the 15 May 2014 along with the loss of 144 jobs.
Facts about Amami Airport (ASJ):
- In addition to being known as "Amami Airport", other names for ASJ include "奄美空港" and "Amami Kūkō".
- The closest airport to Amami Airport (ASJ) is Kikai Airport (KKX), which is located only 15 miles (24 kilometers) ESE of ASJ.
- The furthest airport from Amami Airport (ASJ) is Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport (LAJ), which is nearly antipodal to Amami Airport (meaning Amami Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport), and is located 12,392 miles (19,943 kilometers) away in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
- Amami Airport (ASJ) currently has only 1 runway.
- Because of Amami Airport's relatively low elevation of 14 feet, planes can take off or land at Amami 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.