what is the shortest in-flight time you've experienced on UA SFO-LAX or LAX-SFO?
 

what is the shortest actual in-flight time you've experienced on UA SFO-LAX or LAX-SFO? (from the moment the wheels are off the runway until they touchdown again)

MKE-ORD is typically 19m but can be a short as 15m even though blocked for 50m. It's 67 miles.

Think OP was talking about SFO-LAX. 49 minutes wheels up wheels down has been my personal record. Last flight of the night.

MKE-ORD? I thought LAX-SFO and SFO-LAX were nonstop flights withing California?

I've never heard an instance where the pilot didn't say over the intercom that flight time would be 57 minutes. But I've never used the stopwatch to determine their veracity, either.

this is a fun one - data from 2017
2,691 departures for non directional LAXSFO

• fasted OFF to ON time: 45 minutes
• SFOLAX 18Feb UA2575
• N73445 737-900ER
• 6300lb fuel burn,
• takeoff runway
• 01L flaps 25

and here's a good one from 2016

• fasted OFF to ON time: 43 minutes
• SFOLAX 18Feb UA2245
• N122UA 747-400
• 16,500lb fuel burn,
• takeoff runway
• 01L flaps 10

In 2010 - LAX to SFO, 48 minutes on the A320!

It was 2008 SFO - LAX 42 minutes wheel to wheel time

Cool, was that from publicly available data?

I wonder if they were able to do a water service on the 744 flight.

negative! Company data

i don't think the 74 was a pax section.

Shortest flight I've experienced personally. This was back when they still asked you to turn off all electronics during take off and landing. I think I barely got through an entire song on my OG iPod before the announcement that all electronics must be turned off came on.

AUS-DFW: 28 minutes with a tailwind.

53 minutes on a 752 in 2012

That's pretty cool. The 747 would need to have about 470 seats to match the fuel burn on a per-seat basis of the 739 on that sector... actually a bit less than I would have guessed!

??? Who cares about fuel burn per seat? The 747-400s should continue to fly for another 10 years! :)