What is your shortest commercial flight?
Oct 2, 2012, 9:34 pm
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What is your shortest commercial flight?
I recently flew FLN-DTW (connecting to PHL), total elapsed time wheels up to wheels down was 11 minutes, it's the first time I've ever been on a flight where electronic devices couldn't be used at all (the pilot announced that we wouldn't be going higher then 6k feet). We spent more time on the tarmac at DTW then we did in the air. The funniest part was the guy flying AA out of FLN that needed to get to Detroit asking our gate agent if a seat was available (it was not), otherwise AA was paying for a taxi. From experience it's about an hour ride to DTW from FLN. I've flown many short flights before this (FLN-CLE, DTW-CLE, DTW-PLN) but this takes the cake. So FTers what is your shortest commercial airline flight?
Oct 2, 2012, 10:18 pm
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Back when Republic was a functioning airline I seem to remember that my very first airplane flight on the way to Disneyworld in the late 70s involved GRR-LAN-DTW to start things off.
Oct 2, 2012, 11:04 pm
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I recently flew FLN-DTW (connecting to PHL), total elapsed time wheels up to wheels down was 11 minutes, it's the first time I've ever been on a flight where electronic devices couldn't be used at all (the pilot announced that we wouldn't be going higher then 6k feet). We spent more time on the tarmac at DTW then we did in the air. The funniest part was the guy flying AA out of FLN that needed to get to Detroit asking our gate agent if a seat was available (it was not), otherwise AA was paying for a taxi. From experience it's about an hour ride to DTW from FLN. I've flown many short flights before this (FLN-CLE, DTW-CLE, DTW-PLN) but this takes the cake. So FTers what is your shortest commercial airline flight?
Oct 2, 2012, 11:09 pm
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I recently flew FLN-DTW (connecting to PHL), total elapsed time wheels up to wheels down was 11 minutes, it's the first time I've ever been on a flight where electronic devices couldn't be used at all (the pilot announced that we wouldn't be going higher then 6k feet). We spent more time on the tarmac at DTW then we did in the air. The funniest part was the guy flying AA out of FLN that needed to get to Detroit asking our gate agent if a seat was available (it was not), otherwise AA was paying for a taxi. From experience it's about an hour ride to DTW from FLN. I've flown many short flights before this (FLN-CLE, DTW-CLE, DTW-PLN) but this takes the cake. So FTers what is your shortest commercial airline flight?
My first ever Elite upgrade was FNT-DTW on a DC9-30 a few years back
Oct 2, 2012, 11:35 pm
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Oct 3, 2012, 2:20 am
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LWS-PUW Horizon Air 26 miles
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=LWS-PUW
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Oct 3, 2012, 8:41 am
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DAR-ZNZ in 2005 - 45 miles, flight time was 10-15 mins (can't remember exactly)
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=dar-znz
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=dar-znz