Yflyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2007, 755 posts, RR: 1 Posted (4 months 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 1994 times:
I think the title's self-explanatory... I think really short flights are kind of fun. You don't get above 10,000ft, if that, and you feel more like you're on a flightseeing flight.
The shortest we've got from SMF is SMF-SFO, around 86 miles on a Skywest E-120.
Maverick623 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 3807 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (4 months 1 week 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 1972 times:
PHX-TUS at 97nm.
There was a PHX-PRC until a couple of years ago I think, that clocked in at 76nm.
CXfirst From Norway, joined Jan 2007, 2370 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (4 months 1 week 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 1964 times:
From EVE but live in PER.
PER (Perth International Airport, Australia)
I believe the shortest scheduled flight is from PER to BQB (Busselton Regional Airport) at 109nm (125mi). This sees schedules services by Skywest (XR). I don't think there is anything scheduled that is shorter, but I may be mistaken.
EVE (Harstad/Narvik Airport, Norway)
The shortest scheduled flight is from EVE to TOS (Tromso Airport, Norway) at 86nm (100mi). This scheduled flight is operated by Wideroe.
However, although I would call EVE my home airport, it is only because it is the larger gateway airport with the only flights to OSL. NVK (Narvik Airport, Norway) is just as close, but is a regional airport.
NVK-ANX (Andoya Airport, Norway) at 58nm (67mi) operated by Wideroe.
Although the distance is small, the driving distance would be 182mi and 4 hour driving time due to the fjords and islands of Norway.
Akiestar From Philippines, joined May 2009, 303 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (4 months 1 week 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1959 times:
As far as I know, the shortest flight from MNL is MNL-MRQ (Marinduque; 96 mi), which coincidentally is also my home province.
MNL-MRQ though has not always been the shortest flight: for several years airlines tried to make MNL-CRK work (DG and 6K/Z2 tried to make it work), but to no avail.
ThreeIfByAir From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 427 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (4 months 1 week 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 1880 times:
SEA has 3 QX Q400 routes under 100mi:
SEA-EAT: 99mi (EAT = Wenatchee, WA, which is across the mountains and not an easy drive)
SEA-YYJ: 97mi (YYJ is in Canada, of course, and across the water)
SEA-BLI: 93mi (pretty much no O&D on this route - easily driveable in less than 2 hours)
flymia From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 5672 posts, RR: 6 Reply 16, posted (4 months 1 week 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1845 times:
Well from MIA it would be MIA-NAS multiple times with multiple airplanes, shortest time UP 737-200.
However and airpor even closer to me Watson Island Seaplane Base I flew from there to Bimini Island seaplane base. Also have done a shorter flight OPF-Boca Raton in a Cessna 206.
"It was just four of us on the flight deck, trying to do our job" (Captain Al Haynes)
SEA-EAT: 99mi (EAT = Wenatchee, WA, which is across the mountains and not an easy drive)
SEA-YYJ: 97mi (YYJ is in Canada, of course, and across the water)
SEA-BLI: 93mi (pretty much no O&D on this route - easily driveable in less than 2 hours)
Back in the old days Hughes Airwest did SEA-TIW which is what, 25 miles? Then the flight went to Olympia.
It's more like 1 1/2 hour to BLI, but yeah, I assume that's all connecting traffic as is YKM, PSC and EAT.
I assume PEK is SEA's longest flight now before Emirates starts coming in here.
SFO-OAK is the shortest flight ever that I know of that ever had scheduled jet service, tag-ons of course. It's like 11 miles.
airportugal310 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 2744 posts, RR: 2 Reply 20, posted (4 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 1776 times:
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 18460 posts, RR: 17 Reply 21, posted (4 months 1 week 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 1762 times:
Shortest from GVA is LUG (Lugano, Switzerland, near the Italian border), 118 nm. Probably one of the most scenic routes also (on a clear day) as you're over the Alps almost all the way.
Next shortest is GVA-ZRH, 125 nm.
The shortest used to be GVA-BSL, 100 nm, until LX dropped that route a few years ago when they closed their secondary hub at BSL and disposed of their ex-Crossair ERJ-145s and Saab 2000s.
YVRLTN From Canada, joined Oct 2006, 1759 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (4 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 1742 times:
Shortest on a mainline aircraft ex YVR is to YCD at 34 miles with a Jazz Dash 8.
Some of the Gulf Islands flown by Cessna, Beaver & Otter floatplanes are even shorter, Miners Bay is the winner at 23 miles, Pender Harbour & Silva Bay are both 24 miles, Telegraph Harbour is 26 miles, Lyall Harbour is 27 miles, Ganges Harbour is 28 miles, Bedwell Harbour is 31 miles, Maple Bay is 33 miles and Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast is 30 miles.
NWADC9 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 4814 posts, RR: 12 Reply 23, posted (4 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 1727 times:
Commutair currently has the honor of flying the shortest route from PIT to CLE in a Q200. Back in the old US Airways hub days, B1900Ds to LBE were the shortest flights out of here.
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airontario From Canada, joined Aug 2001, 465 posts, RR: 1 Reply 26, posted (4 months 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1739 times:
Quoting BoeingGuy (Reply 24): Isn't YVR-YYJ shorter? It seems like it geographically.
YCD is basically a straight line due west from YVR. YYJ is quite a bit south of YVR. I seem to remember last time I was there, Wheels up to Wheels down from YVR to YCD was something like 10 minutes, compared to 15 minutes on the YVR-YYJ leg.
airportugal310 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 2744 posts, RR: 2 Reply 28, posted (4 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1708 times:
Quoting steex (Reply 27): The shortest flight from STL is STL-UIN at 81nm, flown with the B1900 by 9K. They fly most of the shortest routes from STL.
Semantics really, but it was a Cessna 402. Point still stands, though!
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 18460 posts, RR: 17 Reply 30, posted (4 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1692 times:
Quoting airontario (Reply 26): Quoting BoeingGuy (Reply 24):
Isn't YVR-YYJ shorter? It seems like it geographically.
YCD is basically a straight line due west from YVR. YYJ is quite a bit south of YVR. I seem to remember last time I was there, Wheels up to Wheels down from YVR to YCD was something like 10 minutes, compared to 15 minutes on the YVR-YYJ leg.
YVR-YCD is 30 nm and YVR-YYJ 34 nm (great circle). Even those short flights can sometimes be entertaining like this AC Jazz Dash 8 on January 3. Passengers on that flight might decide to take the ferry the next time! From Transport Canada daily occurrence reports.
The Jazz DHC-8-100 (JZA8065) was at 4,000 feet enroute to Victoria and as it passed the Vancouver VOR it encountered moderate rolling turbulence. The pilot turned off the auto-pilot, and then encountered heavy turbulence with 2 jolts of severe turbulence. The jolts required full right and full left deflection of the control yoke, and the IVSI recorded 1,000 FPM up and down. The aircraft returned to Vancouver and landed without further incident.
The777Man From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 5561 posts, RR: 58 Reply 37, posted (4 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 1649 times:
roberts87 From Netherlands, joined Dec 2011, 272 posts, RR: 0 Reply 39, posted (4 months 1 week 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 1635 times:
Yes, short flights are fun. I've done a few LAX-SAN flighs (89 miles), quite scenic as well, if you're seated on the side facing the coastline.
Here's my list:
- From AMS: BRU at 98 miles
- From RTM: Scheduled LCY (191 miles), however HV operates a few charter that fly GRQ-RTM-??. GRQ-RTM is 121 miles.
vhqpa From Australia, joined Jul 2005, 1291 posts, RR: 1 Reply 40, posted (4 months 1 week 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1626 times:
For BNE the shortest flight we have is BNE-TWB (Toowoomba) 65nm operated by Skytrans Dash 8-100. I took this flight in August 2009 flight time was 19 minutes.
My other hometown DRW the shortest appears to be DRW-MNG (Maningrida) 198nm operated by Air North Embraer 120. Vincent Aviation did fly their B1900C/D to Bathurst Island 41nm although it looks like this no longer operates.
vatveng From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 838 posts, RR: 1 Reply 43, posted (4 months 1 week 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1573 times:
ORF-DCA on US, 143 mi. It used to be ORF-PHF on US when US had a couple of Dash-8 flights from CLT that served both local airports with one flight, but they discontinued that years ago.
For PHF, the shortest is PHF-PHL on US at 201 miles.
Several years ago, Wings Air, a local air taxi operator, offered scheduled charters between ATL and LZU which logs in at 31nm. They also at one point offered competing service between ATL and MCN and AHN, as they tried to get the EAS subsidy for these routes.
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LH7478i From Germany, joined Jan 2012, 13 posts, RR: 0 Reply 46, posted (4 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1466 times:
Hey, this is my first post after following this forum since about 2005.
From my home airport Luxembourg ( LUX ) its a very short hop of 50 miles to Saarbrücken ( SCN ). The flight is operated by a Luxair Embraer RJ145 and a De Havilland DHC-8 400 . Flight time is 30min on the Dash an 25 on the ERJ.
CairnterriAIR From United States of America, joined Jun 2008, 266 posts, RR: 0 Reply 47, posted (4 months 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1454 times:
From BDL to either JFK or LGA. I think the distance is around 106 miles.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 18460 posts, RR: 17 Reply 49, posted (4 months 1 week 23 hours ago) and read 1399 times:
Quoting airontario (Reply 41): Quoting ATCtower (Reply 36):
BUF-YYZ is half the distance...
I can't think of any airline that regularly flights between BUF and YYZ.
Not now but there used to be. Back in the 1970s/80s there were up to a dozen or so flights a day YYZ-BUF on Eastern and US Air DC-9s, 727s, BAC 1-11s etc. Eastern even had up to 2 daily L-1011s that operated YYZ-BUF-ATL for several years during that period.
In those heavily regulated days, Eastern could only get nonstop transborder route authority YYZ-BUF (and a little later also YYZ-PIT and eventually YYZ-MIA and YYZ-TPA). So if they wanted to go anywhere else in the U.S. they had to stop at BUF first. US Air had a similar situation with their route authority from YYZ limited to points like BUF/ROC/SYR and one or two others not far from the border. Around 1989 I flew US Air once YYZ-BUF-LGA with a connection at BUF (737-300 and DC-9-30).
The Eastern L-1011 in this 1983 photo at YYZ was going to BUF (59 nm) and continuing to ATL.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 18460 posts, RR: 17 Reply 54, posted (4 months 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 1253 times:
Quoting BAViscount (Reply 53): Quoting lhr380 (Reply 42):
LHR-MAN at 151 miles
Shame there's no longer an air link between LHR and LGW, that was only 26 miles!
At one time there were several flights a day SFO-OAK (10 nm) on aircraft as large as 707s and DC-8s.
I also once flew MIA-FLL (18 nm) on an Eastern Airlines A300.
KQ operates 738s a few times a week BZV-FIH (18 nm), capitals of the two Congos on opposite banks of the Congo River. At one time UTA and Sabena flew DC-10s on that sector.
B737900 From United States of America, joined Aug 2010, 116 posts, RR: 0 Reply 55, posted (4 months 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 1251 times:
Flown many, many times SIT - JNU on Alaska Airlines. I would say 100 miles or so. Back in the late 1960's I flew SFO-OAK. That was just across the San Francisco Bay on PSA. AS also has Petersburg, AK to Wrangell, AK. Your don't get to any great altitude at all.
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CGKings317 From Canada, joined Nov 2005, 284 posts, RR: 8 Reply 58, posted (4 months 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1230 times:
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Quoting BoeingGuy (Reply 24): Quoting YVRLTN (Reply 22):
Shortest on a mainline aircraft ex YVR is to YCD at 34 miles with a Jazz Dash 8.
Isn't YVR-YYJ shorter? It seems like it geographically.
I like to call the YCD-YVR route the "Strait shooter" in reference to the Strait of Georgia that separates YVR and the mainland with Vancouver Island. I do however note that the body of water has been renamed Salish Sea from recent maps so that name might not be quite as appropriate right now. But I still like creativity
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. As to my two home airports:
--YOW: YOW-YUL at 82 nm with AC/QK/JV
--> PDX: PDX-EUG at 92 nm with QX/OO.
~CGKings317
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afterburner From Indonesia, joined Jun 2005, 1050 posts, RR: 1 Reply 59, posted (4 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1206 times:
CGK-TKG: 104 nm. The shortest regular flight from CGK is to TKG and the shortest regular flight from TKG is to CGK.
Which one is my home airport? CGK is my home airport and TKG is my hometown's airport. I was born and now live in Jakarta (CGK). However I grew up in Bandar Lampung (TKG).
directorguy From Egypt, joined Jul 2008, 1554 posts, RR: 12 Reply 63, posted (4 months 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 1111 times:
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When I used to live in Saudi Arabia, the shortest flight was DMM-BAH, operated by A320s and A340s, at 47nm. I think the shortest commercial flight to be operated by a jet a/c. When I was in DXB, then it was GF's hop to AUH, which clocked in at 63nm. Usually A320.
Right now the shortest flight from CAI is to HBE, at 101 nm, with a mix of 737s, E70s and A320s.
ZaphodB From United States of America, joined Jan 2012, 36 posts, RR: 0 Reply 68, posted (4 months 1 day ago) and read 925 times:
Delta used to do (maybe still does?) a late night tag-on of the last ATL-MIA service to FLL (30 miles) and I can count either of those as my home airport although I avoid MIA like the plague if practical to do so. I rode it once, very cool. Presumably was repositioning the 757 for an early departure out of FLL back in the days when that was a big station for them ... before people started building loads of condos downtown and along Brickell where the residents pretend they can't see Overtown etc
Also on Delta (but never my home airport), on another 757 I did SRQ-TPA which can't be much longer than MIA-FLL if at all.
BoeingGuy From United States of America, joined Dec 2010, 1329 posts, RR: 3 Reply 71, posted (4 months 5 hours ago) and read 874 times:
Quoting ZaphodB (Reply 68): Delta used to do (maybe still does?) a late night tag-on of the last ATL-MIA service to FLL (30 miles) and I can count either of those as my home airport although I avoid MIA like the plague if practical to do so. I rode it once, very cool. Presumably was repositioning the 757 for an early departure out of FLL back in the days when that was a big station for them ...
I was on that flight about 13 years ago into MIA. I was told the tag-on to FLL was to avoid high RON fees at MIA.
AMS-EIN is already scrapped yeeaaaars ago. At the time it was operating, it was indeed the shortest scheduled flight out of AMS with for a period of time the evening (overnight at EIN) flight operated by F70.
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