In addition to being known as "Kona International Airport at Keāhole", another name for KOA is "Kona International Airport".
Japan Airlines' Kona-Tokyo flight that started in 1996 ended in 2010, so Hawaii Island's only scheduled international flight is to Vancouver.Hawaiian Airlines filed an application with the US Department of Transportation for nonstop flights from Kona to Tokyo's Haneda Airport restoring the link between the two cities after Japan Airlines ended flights to Narita Airport in 2010. The furthest airport from Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA) is Maun Airport (MUB), which is nearly antipodal to Kona International Airport at Keāhole (meaning Kona International Airport at Keāhole is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Maun Airport), and is located 12,399 miles (19,954 kilometers) away in Maun, Botswana. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations. Because of Kona International Airport at Keāhole's relatively low elevation of 47 feet, planes can take off or land at Kona International Airport at Keāhole at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. The closest airport to Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA) is Pōhakuloa Training Area (BSF), which is located 22 miles (36 kilometers) ENE of KOA. Kona International Airport at Keāhole handled 2,649,493 passengers last year. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!įacts about Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA): Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Kona International Airport at Keāhole and Rach Gia Airport. Because of the large distance between Kona International Airport at Keāhole and Rach Gia Airport, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason. 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 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. 
A direct, nonstop flight between Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA), Kailua / Kona, Hawaii, United States and Rach Gia Airport (VKG), Rach Gia, Kien Giang, Vietnam would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,550 miles (or 10,542 kilometers).Ī Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere.
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