Nonstop flight route between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and Chengdu, Sichuan, China:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Yarmouth Airport (YQI), Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU), Chengdu, Sichuan, China would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,257 miles (or 11,680 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 Yarmouth Airport and Chengdu Shuangliu International 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 Yarmouth Airport and Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Yarmouth Airport (YQI):

• Yarmouth Airport (YQI) has 2 runways.
• After the war, the airfield switched to public/commercial use when it was transferred to Transport Canada.
• On November 11, 1971, an Iberia Airlines 747 jumbo jet en route from Madrid to New York made an emergency landing at the airport due to a bomb threat.
• Because of Yarmouth Airport's relatively low elevation of 140 feet, planes can take off or land at Yarmouth 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 furthest airport from Yarmouth Airport (YQI) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 11,789 miles (18,972 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• The closest airport to Yarmouth Airport (YQI) is Digby/Annapolis Regional Airport (YDG), which is located 52 miles (83 kilometers) NNE of YQI.

Facts about Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU):

• Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU) has 2 runways.
• The closest airport to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU) is Mianyang Nanjiao Airport (MIG), which is located 75 miles (121 kilometers) NE of CTU.
• In addition to being known as "Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport", other names for CTU include "成都双流国际机场" and "Chéngdū Shuāngliú Guójì Jīchǎng".
• Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport handled 31,500,000 passengers last year.
• The construction of its second runway started from late 2008 and has started service in December 2009.
• During World War II, the airport was known as Shwangliu Airfield and was later used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourteenth Air Force as part of the China Defensive Campaign.
• The furthest airport from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU) is La Florida Airport (LSC), which is nearly antipodal to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (meaning Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from La Florida Airport), and is located 12,144 miles (19,543 kilometers) away in La Serena, Chile.
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• The airport, formerly named Shuangguisi Airport, opened in capacity as an auxiliary military airfield in 1938 during the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.