Shortest Scheduled Flight on a Big Bird
Sep 22, 2010, 7:59 am
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Shortest Scheduled Flight on a Big Bird
Looking around Delta.com and found DL Flight 7932, LAS – ICN with a stop in LAX on a Korean Air 747-400. The LAS-LAX leg is 235 miles. I would think it would take longer to load and unload the passengers than actual flight time.
Does anyone have experience with a wide-body on a really short flight? What is Delta’s shortest flight on the big birds? (767 and up)
Does anyone have experience with a wide-body on a really short flight? What is Delta’s shortest flight on the big birds? (767 and up)
Sep 22, 2010, 8:11 am
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767s/777s on ATL-MCO/TPA were fairly common a few years ago. It is a little over 400 miles. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that is shorter with the same equipment.
Sep 22, 2010, 8:21 am
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Not DL (neither is KE), but I've flown TWA L-1011s PHL-JFK (IIRC, 90 miles, cruising at 5,000 to 7,000 feet typically) and SFO-OAK (10 minute scheduled flight that seemed to almost hover over the little waves in the bay).
Sep 22, 2010, 8:42 am
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ATL-JAX was quite common on the 767-300 as well until Delta pulled pretty much all 767s off of Florida flying (270 miles).
Sep 22, 2010, 9:57 am
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I recall back a number of years ago DL flew 767's between PDX and SLC. Also, many years back, in the 70's, NW flew a 747 SEA-PDX-HNL. I was on the SEA-PDX leg.
Sep 22, 2010, 11:31 am
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Looking around Delta.com and found DL Flight 7932, LAS – ICN with a stop in LAX on a Korean Air 747-400. The LAS-LAX leg is 235 miles. I would think it would take longer to load and unload the passengers than actual flight time.
Does anyone have experience with a wide-body on a really short flight? What is Delta’s shortest flight on the big birds? (767 and up)
Does anyone have experience with a wide-body on a really short flight? What is Delta’s shortest flight on the big birds? (767 and up)
Unfortunately, things seem to be trending the other way: aka, looooong flights on narrow body aircraft. Still glad I've never flown a 752 across an ocean...
Sep 22, 2010, 11:49 am
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AA used to fly DC-10s AUS-DFW. 183 miles... Every so often there would be a 767 that would show up for the IAH-EFD run on CO back when the had it... That couldn't be more than 20 miles.