Planeguy727 From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 874 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 2983 times:
CXB77L From Australia, joined Feb 2009, 1529 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 2984 times:
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SYD-AKL, 1169 nm according to the great circle map, but I wouldn't have a clue how long it took - too long ago for me to remember. The flight was on a QF 743.
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NZblue From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 624 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 2964 times:
STN-CRL
208 miles
Ryan Air - Boeing 737-800
It's an entirely different kind of flying; all together.
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1966 posts, RR: 7 Reply 8, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 2919 times:
OP3000 From United States of America, joined Jun 2009, 1676 posts, RR: 2 Reply 11, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 2882 times:
EZE-MVD: 137 miles
Its not the shortest international flight, but among the shortest between two capitals. And its served daily on AA 777s (as an add-on to MIA-EZE).
Tofen From Sweden, joined Feb 2009, 46 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 2866 times:
Quoting B777LRF (Reply 10): CPH-MMA, back before they build the bridge. Sikorsky S-76, 12 miles, 5 minutes.
I guess that was supposed to be MMX.
I know my grandparent flew that route back in the days on a DC-3. Someone arranged trips where you took the ferry one way, and flew back.
That was actually there only flight ever, until quite recently. And they where quite proud of it, since many of there friends of similar age have never stepped foot on an airplane.
B777LRF From Luxembourg, joined Nov 2008, 719 posts, RR: 3 Reply 13, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 2851 times:
Quoting Tofen (Reply 12): I guess that was supposed to be MMX
Nope, MMX is Sturup and that's quite a bit further away. MMA is, or rather was, Malmoe Heliport. The heliport did move, at least once, from the inner to the outer of Malmoe Harbour.
The operator was Helikopter Service, and I flew on all of their whirly things over the years; B206, B206L3, A109, S-76 and the AS-something - Dauphin. They did CPH-MMA and CPH-Helsingborg as their bread-and-butter routes, and made quite a killing doing so. Taking the helicopter over to CPH was almost the same price as the ferry and parking at CPH + you could check in all the way from the heliport and, of course, save a lot of time. It was something like 5 minutes from MMA and 15 from Helsingborg. It worked a treat, until they put up the bridge of course, that kind of killed it.
There was another carrier, whos name eludes me now, who used to operate Twotters between MMX and CPH, but I never rode on that service.
[Edited 2009-11-14 17:35:14]
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FlyMIA From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 5672 posts, RR: 6 Reply 17, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 2804 times:
X44 or Miami Seaplane Base (Watson Island) to Bimimi Sea Planebase. Chalks Ocean Airways I think the flight is about 52NM lasted about 15mins.
"It was just four of us on the flight deck, trying to do our job" (Captain Al Haynes)
330lover From Belgium, joined Jul 2008, 423 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 2801 times:
BRU-AMS and v.v. when SN was still Sabena. Gate to gate was scheduled at about 1 hour, but actual flying time was, IIRC, around 20 minuntes, 85nm.
Connecting flight to Iceland was off course more interesting...
Britten Norman Islander VP-FBR on Falkland Islands. THAT'S FLYING!
Jeremy From United States of America, joined May 2001, 665 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 2785 times:
GVA-ORY
Iran Air 747SP
You are now free to be sexually harassed and then terminated for filing a complaint--Southwest Airlines to me.
Pitintl From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 87 posts, RR: 1 Reply 23, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2692 times:
SEA - YYJ on QX.
97 Miles and total flying time of 27 minutes.
Force13 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 229 posts, RR: 0 Reply 25, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 2650 times:
ROC - YYZ on an Air Alliance B1900.
Around 20 min. take off to touch down.
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Tb727 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1140 posts, RR: 4 Reply 26, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 2720 times:
CYQG-KDTW 18nm on Falcon 20's and Learjets plenty of times and we had full meal service. Ok, just kidding, no meal service.
Cubsrule From United States of America, joined May 2004, 19519 posts, RR: 18 Reply 28, posted (2 years 6 months 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 2614 times:
It's a lot different for some of us who are from large (geographically) countries and have a lot of connections to other countries (decreasing the need to connect abroad)
CDG-WAW, AF 32x, 727 nm
...but my second-shortest is CVF-CDG, AF 343, 3611 nm.
Tiger119 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 1919 posts, RR: 0 Reply 31, posted (2 years 6 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2591 times:
How far apart are Tijuana and San Diego? That's got to be a short flight (if there are any flights between the two cities).
David
Flying is the second greatest thrill known to mankind, landing is the first!
Andaman From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 33, posted (2 years 6 months 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 2549 times:
Mine was the 18-minute heli ride last year, the Finnish Copterline run scheduled service between Helsinki EFHE and Tallinn EECC, the central heliports. The service was axed, unfortunately. Cool ride...
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 18460 posts, RR: 17 Reply 34, posted (2 years 6 months 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 2527 times:
I think my shortest international flight was YYZ-BUF (59 nm) on a US Air DC-9 about 20 years ago. Eastern even used L1011s on that sector for a while. BUF was an intermediate stop on a YYZ-BUF-ATL route, in the days before deregulation when Eastern (or anyone else) lacked the traffic rights to operate nonstop YYZ-ATL.
RayChuang From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 7560 posts, RR: 6 Reply 35, posted (2 years 6 months 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 2457 times:
Shortest international flight for me: PEN-SIN in 1979 on a Cathay Pacific 707-320B (324 nautical miles).
I flew a similar route this summer, but it was from Montevideo (MVD) to Aeroparque (AEP). The distance is listed on the Great Circle Mapper as also 137 miles. The flight on the PLUNA Canadair RJ was barely 30 minutes.
Gemuser From Australia, joined Nov 2003, 4842 posts, RR: 7 Reply 37, posted (2 years 6 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 2395 times:
CNS-POM, back in the 1960s on an AN L-188 Electra, 453 nm. About as short an international flight as you are going to get out of Oz.
Full route of aircraft was MEB-SYD-BNE-TSV-CNS-POM-LAE. My group joined in SYD and we were connecting to MAS, all over PNG for the rest. It was a start of school holidays extra flight.
MHG From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 544 posts, RR: 1 Reply 39, posted (2 years 6 months 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 2370 times:
Quoting MHG (Reply 21): Saarbrucken, Germany (SCN) - Luxembourg (LUX) and back
80 KM / 50 mi Luxair EMB-120
Edit: Macau (XZM) - Hongkong (HHP) 37mi / 60Km with Heli Express Sikorski S-76A
It´s just a question if that counts as "international" (i´d prefer to consider Macau and Hongkong as independend from China up to a certain degree ...)
PITingres From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 757 posts, RR: 9 Reply 42, posted (2 years 6 months 2 days ago) and read 2325 times:
I think mine was probably SXM-ANU, 93 nm, 172 km. The overall routing was PIT-EWR-SXM-ANU and I recall the trip as a serious pain, particularly since it was business not pleasure!
DTW-YXU at 109 nm, 202 km, 126 mi would come in second.
Herc4ever From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 39 posts, RR: 0 Reply 44, posted (2 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2184 times:
My shortest was from AVB-RMS on Omni Air International
331mi
288nm
532km
KWI-AVB-RMS
GTF PDX EUG DEN SLC SFO SEA SAT DFW ORD MSP ATL PHL JFK CLT BWI ADD CGN FRA HHN PMI GSE RMS FRF AVB IUD KIK KWI BGW HBE
Greg3322 From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 179 posts, RR: 0 Reply 48, posted (2 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 2009 times:
YYJ (Victoria, BC, Canada) to SEA on a QX Q400. 97 miles.
787seattle From United States of America, joined Feb 2008, 640 posts, RR: 0 Reply 49, posted (2 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1997 times:
Mine would have to be LKE-YWH on Kenmore Air (M5) two Augusts ago.
64 nm according to the great circle.
For those that don't know, that's Lake Union Seaport in Seattle to Victoria Inner Harbour.
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ATCtower From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 379 posts, RR: 3 Reply 50, posted (2 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1991 times:
We will see if it counts since it was in my Baron, but I did El Paso TX, to Juarez MX. Bout 12 miles.
The shortest route where I wansnt PIC was FXE to Bimini in a C-182T and it sucked not flying the whole 25 mins or so.
[Edited 2009-12-03 20:50:41]
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DesertAir From Mexico, joined Jan 2006, 1330 posts, RR: 0 Reply 57, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 1704 times:
I did the COPA Central America milk-run a couple of times. Panama-San Jose, CR.-Managua-San Salvador-Guatemala City. The door opened people deplained, people boarded and the plane took off very quickly. Some segments were 20 minutes or less.
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