Worlds Shortest Commercial Flight

[Comanche 417]

The distance is 1.7 miles.

 

http://www.liveleak.com//view?i=e26_1345520943

[VeryBumpy 272]

Use a shallow hulled boat instead.

[Chuck_B 2]

Use a shallow hulled boat instead.

 

That's what I was thinking, but it's still too cool! Thank you, Comanche.

[John_Cillis 2,406]

Shortest commercial flight I had ever been on was Oakland to San Francisco. If you measure straightline distance I believe it's less than ten miles between the two. The aircraft was a Metroliner operated by United. Actual distance flown was probably close to thirty miles, as the the Metroliner took off to the North/Northwest, then did a 180 over the bay. It flew in the other direction for some miles, then turned base before final approach into SFO.

 

Shortest straighline commercial flight I was ever on was between Burlington, VT and Plattsburgh, NY. The distance between the two airports was probably around twenty miles. It certainly was odd taking such short flights and I wondered if the airlines operating them ever turned a profit on such short routes. Neither flight was very full.

 

Regards,

 

John

[CoolP 283]

Doesn't make much sense to book business class then.

[Chuck_B 2]

Doesn't make much sense to book business class then.

 

Any ideas what kind of plane would they fly this with? Obviously a single engine . . . like a Cessna or something? A/C identification is NOT my strong point.

[Kerberos42 0]

My shortest was the Air Moorea Tw'otter flight between F'aaa on Tahiti and the island of Moorea. It's 17kms, and about a 10 min flight. I did this flight 6 times in one day once.

[Jeff Nielsen 1,386]

When I worked for United Express (WestAir) back in '88 we had a Fresno (KFAT) to Merced (KMER). We told the pilots to taxi their EMB110 up HWY 99 and let us know how the traffic was...LOL.

[Tim_Sims 0]

Any ideas what kind of plane would they fly this with? Obviously a single engine . . . like a Cessna or something? A/C identification is NOT my strong point.

 

Commercial flights on this route use a BN Islander. The video OTOH is clearly taken from a single-engine type, I guess on a private flight.

 

Another way of looking at this is that that flight is significantly shorter than the taxiing distance from Terminal 5 at LHR to the departure end of RWY27L/R. As the captain said as we taxied out a couple of years ago, "Ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately the first few miles of our journey to Johannesburg tonight is by road".

[japascoe 98]

Commercial flights on this route use a BN Islander. The video OTOH is clearly taken from a single-engine type, I guess on a private flight.

 

Another way of looking at this is that that flight is significantly shorter than the taxiing distance from Terminal 5 at LHR to the departure end of RWY27L/R. As the captain said as we taxied out a couple of years ago, "Ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately the first few miles of our journey to Johannesburg tonight is by road".

 

Haha :). You should try 18L/36R at EHAM some time.