<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bellwilliam:
someone probably asked the question before?
which is the current longest non-stop (or stopover) commercial flight? also the shortest flight? in both distance and time?</font>
US's shortest current is Newport News to Norfolk (ORF PHF) at 23 miles. I flew them once Plattsburgh NY to Burlington VT (last of a 5 leg trip) and I seem to remember it was 21 miles. It was straight across the lake, and took 8 minutes takeoff to touchdown.
I seem to remember from my childhood reading in Guiness that there was a flight between some English/Scotish/Welsh islands that was 2 or 3 minutes.
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OK. my curiosity was piqued:
Westray to Papa Westray, Orkney Islands, northern Scotland - "just under 2 minutes" flying time.
More trivia buried in the back of my mind - I seem to recall NY-Johanesburg as the longest flight, but also recall reading an article not too long ago that the opening of additional Russian airspace will allow NY-HK, which will be longer. 16 hrs is the legal limit, so they are probably both near that limit.
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Ain't Google great:
NY - Johanesburg - 13,568 km
NY - Hong Kong - 13,580 km
Both at 15:40 in time.
United claims the longest, as JFK - HK is longer than Continental's Newark - HK
[This message has been edited by CPRich (edited 09-02-2002).]
[This message has been edited by CPRich (edited 09-02-2002).]