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Is JST-AOO The Shortest Sched Flight In The US?

UN_B732 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 4286 posts, RR: 5
Posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 4717 times:

At a whopping 27 miles, is this segment (a tag-on) the shortest flight in the US? It seems like the shortest flight in the UA system.. but I might be wrong.
Based on the posts in a thread in 2005, noone named a current shortest flight..

-A

What now?

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rfields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6150 posts, RR: 25
Reply 1, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 4494 times:

The shortest scheduled flight in the world is 2.8 km from Westray to Papa Westray. The flight time including taxi is 2 minutes. It is flown by BN-2A Islanders by Loganair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Westray_Airport

JST-AOO may be the shortest in the US though I understand there once were scheduled helicopter flights from LGA JFK and downtown NY to JFK. Those probably would not count if you are looking for flights today.

[Edited 2010-04-20 13:39:13]

RoseFlyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 8744 posts, RR: 52
Reply 2, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 4469 times:

Could you list what airports you are talking about?

If you have never designed an airplane part before, let the real designers do the work!

CPH-R From Denmark, joined May 2001, 5745 posts, RR: 4
Reply 3, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 4415 times:

Quoting RoseFlyer (Reply 2):
Could you list what airports you are talking about?

JST = John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport
AOO = Altoona-Blair County Airport

rwSEA From Netherlands, joined Jan 2005, 3016 posts, RR: 2
Reply 4, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 4298 times:

Quoting UN_B732 (Thread starter):
At a whopping 27 miles, is this segment (a tag-on) the shortest flight in the US? It seems like the shortest flight in the UA system.. but I might be wrong.

Pullman, WA to Lewiston, ID on QX is 26 miles

Typically it's flown as a SEA-PUW-LWS-SEA or vice-versa triangle routing. However, QX does sell the PUW-LWS sector as a separate segment, and also offers PUW-LWS-BOI connecting service.

steex From United States of America, joined Jun 2007, 1426 posts, RR: 9
Reply 5, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 4260 times:

Era Aviation (more specifically, Hageland Aviation) flies BET-KWT (Bethel, AK to Kwethluk, AK) non-stop on Cessnas at a distance of only 13 statute miles. There may be other routes even shorter, particularly hopping between Alaskan villages, but this was the one that came to mind.

timz From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 6468 posts, RR: 8
Reply 6, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 4080 times:

Quoting steex (Reply 5):
Era Aviation (more specifically, Hageland Aviation) flies BET-KWT

Scheduled?

steex From United States of America, joined Jun 2007, 1426 posts, RR: 9
Reply 7, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 3892 times:

Quoting timz (Reply 6):
Scheduled?

They are indeed scheduled flights (and bookable to the general public at Era's website). I should clarify, though, that the segment is only flown non-stop BET -> KWT. The full routing is flown 3 times daily as a circle route of BET-KWT-KKI-AKI-BET (Bethel-Kwethluk-Akiachak-Akiak-Bethel).

Now that I think about it though, the shortest non-stop segment on that routing is actually KKI-AKI at 7 statute miles.

CPH-R From Denmark, joined May 2001, 5745 posts, RR: 4
Reply 8, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 3794 times:

Looking at the territory they fly through, one can see where the need for such flights comes from!

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...313&spn=0.267603,1.150818&t=k&z=11

f16arm From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 89 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 3694 times:

Wasn't there a tri-motor that served the islands north of port clinton, oh, not to long ago?

One weekend a month and two (cough, cough 45, 90, 120 days) weeks a year supports my habbit

Rhodylee From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 82 posts, RR: 4
Reply 10, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 3545 times:

New England Airlines flies scheduled flights from Westerly RI to Block Island. 17 miles

timz From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 6468 posts, RR: 8
Reply 11, posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 3024 times:

Quoting steex (Reply 7):
BET-KWT-KKI-AKI-BET

The Cessna lands on gravel runways and on water, on the same trip? Is that common on scheduled flights up there?

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