What's your shortest flight?
Mar 23, 2007, 9:05 am
#1
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What's your shortest flight?
Elsewhere on this forum is a thread about the smallest airport with scheduled commercial service that people have been to. It got me thinking about other airport extremes and I remembered my flight around 2000 from HOU to IAH (then onward to EWR). All of 24 miles on a Continental Express turboprop (7-9 seats, if I remember correctly), but I got 500 FF miles just for getting off the ground.
So, what other super-short-haul flights have people taken, and why?
So, what other super-short-haul flights have people taken, and why?
Mar 23, 2007, 9:09 am
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Papeete-Moorea, a whole 5 minutes.
Still, not the shortest flight on the planet. Papa Westray-Westray, a whole 90 seconds, holds that honor; two minutes scheduled time, and they still fly it.
http://www.loganair.co.uk/
Still, not the shortest flight on the planet. Papa Westray-Westray, a whole 90 seconds, holds that honor; two minutes scheduled time, and they still fly it.
http://www.loganair.co.uk/
Mar 23, 2007, 6:02 pm
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My X21-X21 flight. :P X21 is a small airport in Titusville, FL. Flew about 10 minutes up to 15,000 ft., and then jumped out of the plane securely strapped to a guy with a parachute and landed at the airport a few minutes later. The plane I was riding on actually landed on the ground before I did.
Mar 23, 2007, 6:18 pm
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I fly RST-MSP quite a bit. I believe it's listed as 76 miles. The time depends on the route of flight, but we've gotten there in as little as 18 minutes.
The bad news is that taking the flight and making connections (especially on the way home) usually takes longer than it would take for me to drive to and from MSP.
The good news is that I get an additional 1000 EQM per round-trip.
The bad news is that taking the flight and making connections (especially on the way home) usually takes longer than it would take for me to drive to and from MSP.
The good news is that I get an additional 1000 EQM per round-trip.
Mar 23, 2007, 10:00 pm
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PLB-BTV on USAir. 22 miles right across the lake, about 7 minutes in a 15 seater. I could see the lights of the BTV airport while taking off. This was the last hop of a PIT-BTV flight to do some skiing. It's a 2-hr drive around the lake and US used to have almost hourly flights back and forth.
ORD-MKE on a full-sized jet wasn't much longer - about 15 min. but 3x as far.
ORD-MKE on a full-sized jet wasn't much longer - about 15 min. but 3x as far.
Last edited by CPRich; Mar 24, 2007 at 9:13 am
Mar 24, 2007, 8:20 am
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CLT-GSP is probably the shortest on a mainline jet. GSO-CLT is a little farther, same with PIT-CAK.
Mar 24, 2007, 11:59 am
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How about a 45-minute international flight on AA: Buenos Aires to Montevideo that I've been on. It's the shortest flight I know of that's capital city to capital city. Who can beat that one on capital cities???