Shortest AC flight in the US
Jun 26, 2017, 5:27 pm
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4 go-arounds on YUL-YTZ and then a diversion to YYZ is my closest - but we were only a couple hundred feet above the threshold in YTZ.
Jun 26, 2017, 5:31 pm
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Jun 26, 2017, 5:43 pm
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I had a HOU-IAH after diverting to HOU due to weather at IAH a couple years ago. Same issues with not being able to get off the plane etc. What was especially frustrating about that occurrence was I ended up missing an IAH-BOG connection and getting stuck on a redeye instead. Could have easily caught a cab and made the flight no problem if CBP had been more flexible.
Although it did provide for a moment of great levity when my client and I dashed all the way across IAH, thinking we might just make our connection, only to be told by the UA GA that our plane was gone. Despite the jetbridge still being hooked up.
Tell us the boarding door is closed and we're SOL, fine. But don't insult our intelligence by telling us that's not our plane.
Anyway, HOU-IAH is longer than EWR-LGA, so I can't beat OP
Although it did provide for a moment of great levity when my client and I dashed all the way across IAH, thinking we might just make our connection, only to be told by the UA GA that our plane was gone. Despite the jetbridge still being hooked up.
Tell us the boarding door is closed and we're SOL, fine. But don't insult our intelligence by telling us that's not our plane.
Anyway, HOU-IAH is longer than EWR-LGA, so I can't beat OP
Jun 26, 2017, 6:48 pm
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Jun 26, 2017, 7:11 pm
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It was how the flew TB out of the muni. They would touch the pavement at the international. I don't remember it carrying on for long.
Jun 26, 2017, 7:13 pm
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Jun 26, 2017, 7:18 pm
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Don't be so hard on yourself. It is just a fun thread. And a good lesson that anything can be made to look negative.
Jun 27, 2017, 1:08 am
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That's the shortest one I can think of, too. YVR-YYJ is marginally longer.
I wonder whether AC ever operated flights between the different airports on Vancouver Island (which could be marginally shorter than YVR-YCD), but otherwise I can't think of any other flights that would be shorter.
I wonder whether AC ever operated flights between the different airports on Vancouver Island (which could be marginally shorter than YVR-YCD), but otherwise I can't think of any other flights that would be shorter.
Jun 27, 2017, 8:40 am
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As someone who takes the Coho Ferry on occasion when I have moved a car between CLM-YYJ, that crossing from downtown to downtown is only 22 miles per the ferries announcement. YYJ is further up the Saanich peninsula though.