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Shortest Widebody Scheduled Route

JQflightie From Australia, joined Mar 2009, 880 posts, RR: 1
Posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 3149 times:

Who operates the worlds shortest widebody route in the world, international or domestic? How far and what aircraft....
I can think of one
QF MEL-CBR 469kms 763

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AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18844 posts, RR: 64
Reply 1, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 3107 times:

Quoting JQflightie (Thread starter):
Who operates the worlds shortest widebody route in the world

This thread will probably get moved to the Polls & Prefs forum, where it's been done a few times. The winner usually comes out as EI SNN-DUB on the A330 at 195km/105nm.

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m404 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 2214 posts, RR: 5
Reply 2, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 3010 times:

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My bets would be in Japan. Osaka to Tokyo is only 250 mi. Last night I saw a 777-200 on Fukuoka-Tokyo segment. Thats a smaller city than Osaka but 553 miles so you can imagine the scale of the first two mentioned.

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mke717spotter From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 2310 posts, RR: 5
Reply 3, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2920 times:

As far as the US is concerned, I know DL uses 763s on ATL-MCO and that's just over 400 miles.

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CXfirst From Norway, joined Jan 2007, 2696 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2889 times:

British Airways flies BAH-DOH with the 777. That's a whopping 79 nm / 146 km

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KFlyer From Sri Lanka, joined Mar 2007, 1208 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2882 times:

CMB-TRV at 222mi used to be a widebody route. Nowadays mostly operated by 320s, but still gets the occasional 330/340 sub. Given that TPE-KHH too is 181mi, I believe EI is the winner.

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Aloha717200 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 4397 posts, RR: 17
Reply 6, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2841 times:

For a short time, Hawaiian operated the 763 on OGG-HNL. That's only 82 nautical miles (94 statute miles).

tymnbalewne From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 912 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2775 times:

BA from SKB to ANU...62miles/100km on a 777?

[Edited 2011-04-10 00:22:39]

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huaiwei From Singapore, joined Oct 2008, 1086 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2726 times:

This has been discussed multiple times before? SQ's shortest route is the SIN-KUL route at 297 km (185 miles) on 777s.

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kaitak From Ireland, joined Aug 1999, 11952 posts, RR: 37
Reply 9, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2712 times:

Quoting AeroWesty (Reply 1):
The winner usually comes out as EI SNN-DUB on the A330 at 195km/105nm.

Quoting KFlyer (Reply 5):
I believe EI is the winner.

The DUB-SNN route is no longer flown; after so many decades of being forced to fly widebodies on such a short route, all EI's t/a flights have been "decoupled".

Dragonair currently flies regular A330 services on the HKG-CAN route, a mere 84mi:

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=can-hkg&MS=wls&DU=mi

757ops From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2006, 309 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 2592 times:

I think ET win this hands down with B763 FIH - BZV 16nm/26Km

KHPN From United States of America, joined Sep 2010, 138 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 2578 times:

slightly off topic...
But thought I'd bring this up again, and although not WB service this one still takes the cake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwyVWaCAD2A

DesertAir From Mexico, joined Jan 2006, 1389 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 2133 times:

I flew once from Toronto to Quebec on an Air Canada A300.

bj87 From Netherlands, joined Jun 2009, 444 posts, RR: 0
Reply 13, posted (2 years 1 month 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1998 times:

KLM's shortest wide body route has got to be AMS LHR. Depending on the time of year or the load it can be anything from a narrow body 737 to a wide body 777.

gabrielchew From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 2512 posts, RR: 13
Reply 14, posted (2 years 1 month 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 1926 times:

I flew BWN-BKI with Royal Brunei on a B767 back in 2003. Distance is 166km

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Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21481 posts, RR: 24
Reply 15, posted (2 years 1 month 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 1925 times:

Quoting DesertAir (Reply 12):
I flew once from Toronto to Quebec on an Air Canada A300.

It couldn't have been an A300. AC has never operated the type.

BasilFawlty From Netherlands, joined Jun 2009, 1254 posts, RR: 1
Reply 16, posted (2 years 1 month 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 1924 times:

Quoting bj87 (Reply 13):
KLM's shortest wide body route has got to be AMS LHR. Depending on the time of year or the load it can be anything from a narrow body 737 to a wide body 777.

KL stopped flying wide body aircraft to LHR almost 4 years ago. Only during very rare situations like heavy snow disruptions they might upgrade the regular 737 to something bigger, but that's unscheduled so it doesn't count for this topic.

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RJLover From Canada, joined Dec 2006, 567 posts, RR: 1
Reply 17, posted (2 years 1 month 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1919 times:

Quoting DesertAir (Reply 12):
flew once from Toronto to Quebec on an Air Canada A300.

Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 15):
It couldn't have been an A300. AC has never operated the type.

I'm going to guess it was a typo and he meant to type A330.

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BAViscount From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 2338 posts, RR: 4
Reply 18, posted (2 years 1 month 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1826 times:

Quoting BasilFawlty (Reply 16):
KL stopped flying wide body aircraft to LHR almost 4 years ago.

Yes, at one time they used to send the A330 on the first daily flight AMS-LHR - I flew the return leg in March 2008, which left LHR at 10something I think, it was a nice but short flight!

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JA8119 From Hong Kong, joined Mar 2011, 33 posts, RR: 0
Reply 19, posted (2 years 1 month 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 1779 times:

Quoting gabrielchew (Reply 14):
I flew BWN-BKI with Royal Brunei on a B767 back in 2003. Distance is 166km

I've recently flown this route on BI's 777. Packed with Chinese as it is the Chinese New Holiday period.

727tiger From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 225 posts, RR: 0
Reply 20, posted (2 years 1 month 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1766 times:

Quoting Aloha717200 (Reply 6):
For a short time, Hawaiian operated the 763 on OGG-HNL. That's only 82 nautical miles (94 statute miles).

Back in 1991, I flew HNL-OGG in an AA DC-10.

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