Your shortest standalone jet flight?
 

Just bought tickets yesterday for a standalone mainline jet (FWIW 735 but I've flown at least 4 copies) flight of just 39 miles airport to airport, something that takes the turboprops that fly the route as brief as 12 minutes in the air if wind direction and ATC allow.

Would normally not bother flying this distance but with ticket price, including 2 bag allowance of under CAD 80 each, it is attractive compared to the public/common carrier option of taxi/limo, ferry and bus especially on a long weekend which would take at 3 hours at the very least, and probably closer to 4-5.

Now to keep an eye on the car rental rates to cut down a few more dollars.

YYJ/YVR with Air North?

I've done 31 miles, WRG-PSG on an Alaska 737-700, when I did the milk run, stopping off in a bunch of cities

Indeed. I know they fly the route but only very irregularly but 4N's schedule just happened to work for us this time (positioning to an AF flight the next day). Don't trust WS/WR enough to get us there even on a single ticket (and it'd cost more to boot).

I'm sure there are some who have bought SFO <=> OAK (11 miles) as a standalone ticket on 727 service.

Just did YVR/YYJ on an AC CR9 last week. Was originally scheduled to be a dash 8, which is what we had on the way back.

Super old thread, but you can also see some data points from a couple decades ago: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trav...-aircraft.html

Zanzibar (ZNZ) to Dar es Salaam (DAR), 45 miles as the crow flies. We were supposed to be on a turboprop like when we flew to Zanzibar but that airline found seats on a 777 and put the 7 of us on that. This was 2008 and when we landed had no way of calling the hotel for their driver to come to the main terminal from the small plane one so I asked a local to use his phone.

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40 miles (11 minutes)
Vancouver YVR to Victoria YYJ by Pacific Western 737-200.

A shorter mileage 21 miles as the crow flies (25 minutes) between Paris CDG to Paris ORY in an Air Inter Caravelle 12, though this was a diversion; should have been CDG to Nantes NTE.

Not standalone, but OAK-SFO and vv connections. Ten minutes scheduled flight time (sometimes on a wide body aircraft) and IIRC either 11 or 13 miles. TWA in the 1970s and 1980s.

since the word “scheduled” isn’t in the title, I can lay claim to three flights between airports that are 5 miles apart

as a flight test engineer, I was on the first flights of a 727-200 and two 737-200s from Renton/RNT to Boeing Field/BFI

each flight actually lasted an hour and a half to two hours, as the pilots went through the normal first flight acceptance checklist and whatever dedicated test conditions needed to be performed

the first 737 flight (Apr 1980) involved a new exhaust mixer design for the JT8D-17 engine

the 72S (Sep 1980) and the other 737 (Apr 1981) each had a new airline-specific Performance Data Computer System

Scheduled for Precision Air ATR-42? Got bumped off our 737 flight to NBO because of some inane requirement to reconfirm reservations. Bit hard to do when you're in the middle of nowhere.

Since this specifies jet, all I can come up with is BJL-DSS which is :eek:nly 96 miles, but still quite long compared to many of the above.

No, some type of "Cessna" I forget if only one prop or two. Think 4 rows of 4.

I'm eagerly awaiting to time how long it'll take a 735 if T/O and landing are towards the east.

Should add that I am sure some people here have flown BZV-FIH as a standalone flight, and in a widebody at that..

OGG-JHM is a flight I would often fly when we had a home in West Maui. That flight could not have been more than 15 minutes. Easier than driving from the Kahului airport.