Ratypus From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2004, 176 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 4518 times:
OK here's a question! I know its probably prone to problems of definition but its just for fun.....
Which flights spend the greatest % of their flight time over water?! NOTE this does not mean the longest TIME over water, but the longest time as a proportion of the total flight...
My guesses are going in for SYD-LAX (almost 100%).....possibly AKL-SCL (although the last few hours are flown offshore but in sight of the Chilean coast..) - maybe some of the East Coast - UK/Ireland flights eg Boston-LHR; Boston-Shannon on EI.
SYD-LAX is probably a winner here...but I'm sure we can think of some more unusual ones too! My wildcard flights are Ryanair's Liverpool to Dublin.....and BA's Kirkwall to Sumburgh up in the Islands of Scotland!!
I guess any flight from East coast Australia to West Coast US and HNL
PER-JNB is another route that comes to mind where majority of the flight is over water
Vanguard From Solomon Islands, joined Feb 2004, 95 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4400 times:
I would think most island hopping flights in e.g. the Med, or the Pacific or anywhere in fact would be 100%. Short, but almost 100% over water.
OK so it depends whether the airport is inland or not, but certainly in the Pacific islands most airstrips are on the coast as the interiors are mountainous.
Justbala From India, joined Feb 2006, 149 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 4360 times:
How abt TRV-MCT or BOM-MCT (West Coast of India to East Coast of the Arabian Peninsula over the Arabian sea) or maybe even MAA-IXZ domestic flight (East Coast of India to Andaman islands over the bay of Bengal)
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RoseFlyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 8748 posts, RR: 52 Reply 7, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 4344 times:
LAX-PPT is one that I can think of that is entirely over water. The ocean is less than a mile from the end of the runway in LAX and the threshold at PPT is right near the edge of the water. Of course the rest of the flight is over water getting between the two places. I think that flight would spend only about 1 minute flying over land and about 8 hours over water.
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EHHO From Bulgaria, joined Dec 2005, 815 posts, RR: 8 Reply 8, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 4303 times:
SJU-JFK should be around the top with 99% to 100% above water. Have flown it many times and we always took off towards the sea at SJU (where the runway stretches out into the atlantic), and on many occasions we landed on the shoreside runways of JFK. When flying back it's different because at SJU most planes land towards the ocean (because of the sea winds). But on SJU-JFK it must be 100% water.
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Ratypus From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2004, 176 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 4206 times:
OK so we're doing well - got all the obvious ones out, plus some less obvious ones! And love the attention to detail...right down to runways right next to the water!!
Now to reverse the thread - how about the flights that have most % over land - except to make this trickier....they must be intercontinental flights!!!
I'm thinking CDG-HKG maybe?.......or CDG-JNB (just a short hop over the Med) - or maybe LAX-EZE, which probably heads over mexican land on the way?
EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5522 posts, RR: 57 Reply 15, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 3942 times:
Vhqpa From Australia, joined Jul 2005, 1383 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 3910 times:
SYD/BNE-LAX depending on which departure and approach you get your flight could proberly only see flight over land for about 2 minutes after takeoff then another 2 minutes on approach
i suppose SYD/BNE-AKL/WLG could also be up there too
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