Your shortest flight on a widebody and longest flight on a narrowbody

global2 · Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:40 am

Longest narrowbody: Tokyo-Haneda to Moscow SVO on a JAL DC-8. 4039nm (1972)
Shortest widebody: JFK to BOS on Pan Am Airbus A300 or A310. 160nm (1987)

EAARbrat · Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:28 am

Widebody
AR 742 JFK-YYZ or EA L1011 BDL-JFK (Ferry)

Narrowbody (nothing super long)
UA DC8 JFK-SEA or EA 752 JFK-LAX or EA 722 ATL-PHX

blandy62 · Thu Oct 07, 2021 3:05 am

shortest wide body

GVA-ZRH 125nm (LX 77W)
SIN-KUL 160nm (SQ 772, HY 763ER, MK A333, WY A333)
PNH-SGN 115nm (QR A333)
CGP-DAC 123nm (BG 77W)

Longest narrow body

KUL-MLE 1693 nm (MH 738, AK A320)
GAU-SIN 1644nm (KB A319)
KTM-KUL 1762nm (OD 739ER)
MLE-DAC 1528nm (Q2 A320)
GUM-MAJ 1812nm (UA 738)

fbgdavidson · Thu Oct 07, 2021 3:34 am

Longest narrowbody: LHR-JFK on Concorde (3451 miles)
Shortest widebody: ANU-UVF on British Airways L-1011 (242 miles)

Honourable mention: TAM 767-300 JFK-YYZ-JFK (366 miles each way)

ACDC8 · Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:14 am

EAARbrat wrote:
Widebody

Narrowbody (nothing super long)
UA DC8 JFK-SEA or EA 752 JFK-LAX or EA 722 ATL-PHX

Didn't even think about the DC8 and its even in my username LOL, guess I'll have to change mine to FRA-YYZ with the ACDC8.

flyboysp · Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:05 am

Longest NB: CNS-MEL with QF on a 738
Shortest WB: SYD-SYD with QF on a 744. This was the Sydney farewell flight for the QF 744. Still have many videos onboard this flight.

nicode · Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:35 am

Shortest WB flight : CDG-LHR-CDG with AF A380
Longest NB flight : probably ADD-CDG with ET 757-200

LBA1432 · Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:10 am

Shortest widebody: MEL-SYD on a QF A330 in 2019.

Longest narrowbody: IAD-MAN UA752 in 2013.

ro1960 · Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:40 pm

CDG-LGW on a CX 747 in the mid 1980s. About 30 minutes flight time, and maybe 15 in a wait pattern.

IADCA · Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:47 pm

Shortest WB would be SNN-DUB on an EI 741. 105 nm.

Longest NB would be LHR-IAD on a few UA 752s. 3195 nm.

ua900 · Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:56 pm

Shortest widebody:

UA 747-400 SFO-LAX 293nm / 337 miles / 542km (upper deck, after dark departure using runway 1R)
LH A300-600 FRA-TXL 235nm / 270 miles / 435km (nothing memorable at the time, but in today's world I'd take that over an A321 any day)

Longest narrowbody:

UA 757-200 TXL-EWR 3458nm / 3980 miles / 6405km (did this run like a hundred times, we came in running on fumes more than once)

SRQKEF · Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:46 pm

Top 3 shortest widebody flights:

HU 787-9 DUB-EDI 182 NM / 338 km
ET 787-8 ARN-OSL 208 NM / 386 km
UX A330-200 MAD-BCN 261 NM / 484 km

Top 3 longest narrowbody flights:

FI 757-200 KEF-PDX 3248 NM / 6016 km
FI 757-200 KEF-TPA 3148 NM / 5830 km
FI 757-200 KEF-SEA 3126 NM / 5789 km

PI4EVR · Thu Oct 07, 2021 5:14 pm

Longest NB - PA 707-320B SFO-HND and honorable mention BWI-HNL on UA DC-8-62
Shortest WB - PIT-CLT on US 767-200

Nimda · Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:19 pm

Shortest Widebody
TG 747-400/777-300/A300-600/A330-300/ on BKK-CNX/CNX-BKK

Longest Narrowbody
VN A321-200 HAN-BKK

YYZSpotter1991 · Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:06 am

Shortest widebody flight: EL AL 742 on Apr. 8, 1998, from YYZ-YUL. The flight continued onto TLV after it stopped in Montreal to pick up a few more passengers. Remember it being around a 60-minute stop, and no one was allowed to leave the plane while it took on the extra passengers.

Longest narrowbody flight: Skyservice 752 on June 11, 2006, from YYZ-AUA. Wasn't too much to do on board, so passed the time by resting, and watching the views out the window.

XAMTO · Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:18 am

Longest Narrowbody flight: B6 83 A320 JFK-SEA in 2004 and B6 A321 JFK-SAN in 2017. I can't remember this flight number unfortunately. The flights were within two minutes apart in flight time around 5 hours and 50 minutes with SEA taking the record by 120 seconds. My flight next year on TAP Portugal on the A321LR LIS-BOS will easily create a new record though.

Shortest Widebody: Delta Air Lines MCO-ATL roundtrip on the 767-432 ER in 2002. it was around an hour or so each way.

Flanker7 · Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:38 am

And i forgot the DC8-63 AMS-LAX with a technical stop Toronto

LucaDiMontanari · Fri Oct 08, 2021 11:56 am

As the OP revealed in this thread, he is in deep love with the Dash-8 series...

conaly wrote:
Crash-8. I hate that thing.

'nuff said.

...so I should ad this one to the list as a honorable mention: Berne BRN - Preveza PVK and back on a Q400, to a week of beach holidays. This is 1397 km or 755nm oneway, which resulted in a three hour trip on the flight back due strong headwinds (regular block time was around 2:30). Lovely flight, lovely crew, breathtaking 270° overhead visual circling "Stuka"-approach into BRN. Great fun 8-)

AntonioMartin · Fri Oct 08, 2021 2:31 pm

Easy for me since Ive only logged 14 flights in my life...

Shortest wide body was Eastern Airlines L-1011 from San Juan to Santo Domingo and back...Ive only had 4 wide body flights and all were L-1011's (Delta, my first ever flights, and Eastern)

My longest narrow-body flight was on an American Airlines Boeing 757 from DFW to San Juan and back.

I have to say this: the term narrow-body can be misleading to some that do not know that much about aviation To me, aircraft in the A220 and Boeing 737 and up, I consider those big aircraft. Compare them to business jets and even more to the 15 seater water airplanes or the 3 seater private Cessnas, ad you will agree with me!

AirKevin · Fri Oct 08, 2021 8:04 pm

KLMatSJC wrote:
Longest Narrowbody
SFO-JFK/JFK-SFO (2,583 mi)
UA 757-200 & B6 A321-200

I guess JFK to SFO is longer than LAX to EWR, isn't it. In that case, mine would also be a United 757-200 from JFK to SFO.

Max Q wrote:
Longest narrow body flight in miles was Newark to Rome in a 757 we operated as our 767 was broken. Only 7.5 hours with tailwinds and they had to stop in Shannon on the return

They managed to fit everyone on board the 757?

LXM83 · Fri Oct 08, 2021 9:16 pm

Top 3 shortest widebody flights
45 km: Zurich (ZRH/LSZH) - Emmen (EML/LSME), Belair B767-3Q8ER HB-ISE
78 km: Basel/Mulhouse (BSL/LFSB) - Zurich (ZRH/LSZH), Swissair A310-322 HB-IPF and Swissair A310-325ET HB-IPN
120 km: Curacao (CUR/TNCC) - Aruba (AUA/TNCA), Air Aruba, B767-3Y0ER EI-CAL

Top 3 longest narrowbody flights
6503 km: New York-Newark (EWR/KEWR) - Munich (MUC/EDDM), PrivatAir (operated for LH) B737-7CN BBJ HB-IIQ
6162 km: Las Palmas (LPA/GCLP) - Holguin (HOG/MUHG), Cubana Il-62M CU-T1284
5834 km: Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG/LFPG) - New York-John F Kennedy (JFK/KJFK), Air France Concorde 101 F-BVFA

stratosphere · Sat Oct 09, 2021 12:34 am

Shortest widebody World Airways DC-10 EWR-BWI. Longest narrowbody EWR-LAX AS 737

leftcoast8 · Sat Oct 09, 2021 2:57 am

BA6565/6566, LHR-HBE-ADD (summer of 2006), 10 hours on a BMED A321 with the only IFE being overhead monitors. At the time it was the longest A32x flight in the world. On the return trip I got to see the sun rise over the Nile River.

Kent350787 · Sat Oct 09, 2021 3:38 am

Shortest: KLM 763 AMS-LHR 1:15
Longest: CX 773 HKG-BOS 15:35

conaly · Sat Oct 09, 2021 8:51 am

AntonioMartin wrote:
I have to say this: the term narrow-body can be misleading to some that do not know that much about aviation To me, aircraft in the A220 and Boeing 737 and up, I consider those big aircraft. Compare them to business jets and even more to the 15 seater water airplanes or the 3 seater private Cessnas, ad you will agree with me!

Well, this is an aviation forum, so most people here should know what narrowbody and widebody means. Besides that, between "big" and "small" there is term called "medium" and I'd consider a CRJ, an A220 or even a 757 each a medium and not a big aircraft. I also mentioned in my opening post, that I only asked for airliners. No bizjets, no general aviation. So no, I do not agree with you

DeltaPSCFlyer · Sat Oct 09, 2021 2:39 pm

Shortest widebody flight: HNL-LIH on a United Airlines DC-10-10 approx. 30 mins. (Feb. 1990)
Longest narrowbody flight: MIA-SEA on an American Airlines 757 approx. 6h 15m (Aug. 2012)

AntonioMartin · Sat Oct 09, 2021 3:26 pm

conaly wrote:
AntonioMartin wrote:
I have to say this: the term narrow-body can be misleading to some that do not know that much about aviation To me, aircraft in the A220 and Boeing 737 and up, I consider those big aircraft. Compare them to business jets and even more to the 15 seater water airplanes or the 3 seater private Cessnas, ad you will agree with me!

Well, this is an aviation forum, so most people here should know what narrowbody and widebody means. Besides that, between "big" and "small" there is term called "medium" and I'd consider a CRJ, an A220 or even a 757 each a medium and not a big aircraft. I also mentioned in my opening post, that I only asked for airliners. No bizjets, no general aviation. So no, I do not agree with you

Haha!!

AirKevin · Sun Oct 10, 2021 1:19 am

Kent350787 wrote:
Shortest: KLM 763 AMS-LHR 1:15
Longest: CX 773 HKG-BOS 15:35

I don't think a 777 is considered a narrowbody. Even then, I don't think the 777-300 has the range to fly that long of a flight. I'm guessing you meant the 777-300ER.

Tabito · Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:10 am

Shortest Widebody: NGO-NRT (212mi) JAL 747-400
Longest Narrowbody: NRT-SVO (4676mi) Aeroflot Il-62

Kent350787 · Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:03 am

AirKevin wrote:
Kent350787 wrote:
Shortest: KLM 763 AMS-LHR 1:15
Longest: CX 773 HKG-BOS 15:35

I don't think a 777 is considered a narrowbody. Even then, I don't think the 777-300 has the range to fly that long of a flight. I'm guessing you meant the 777-300ER.

Sorry, misread title about longest flight. Longest on narrowbody is only BNE-DRW

n92r03 · Mon Oct 11, 2021 12:44 am

Shortest WB - LAX-SAN DL L1011, then TPA-ATL DL 777, 763
Longest NB - SAN - IAD A319

Insertnamehere · Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:03 am

My shortest narrowbody has to be Air France EZE-MVD on the 77W

Longest narrowbody is relatively boring with AGP-JFK on Delta when they flew the 757-200

melpax · Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:03 am

Shortest Widebody - QF 767-300ER ADL-MEL back in 2007. Would have most likely been a repositioning flight back to MEL after a SIN-ADL flight since it was from one of the dual domestic/international gates.

Longest Narrowbody - NZ A320 MEL-WLG back in 2006. Was around 3.5 hours from memory.

Seabear · Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:20 pm

Probably had to be MCO - ATL, a DL 777 full of screaming kids.

nickya340 · Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:00 pm

Shortest wb- AC A333 DUB-YYZ 6h40
Longest nb- UA 752 DUB-EWR 7h10

N776AU · Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:50 am

Interesting subject that I’ve never really thought about.

My shortest widebody flight was ATL-MCI and back on a pair of Delta L-1011s. I guess that would have been 1994-1995. I was pretty young, and don’t remember a ton about the flights.

Longest narrowbody flight depends on if we talk time or distance. Both were on JetBlue A321s. I flew JFK-LAX that I clocked at 5:25 takeoff to touchdown. My return LAX-BOS was nearly 200 miles longer, but 31 minutes less flying time.

Q · Tue Oct 12, 2021 5:39 am

ORD-SJU and back B757 United 5 and half hours. Delta 727-200 CVG-SFO around 4 hrs 45 min. DC-10 United ORD-DTW around 1 hour.

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B777LRF · Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:14 pm

Shortest: QY BRU-EIN (47NM - 10 minutes) A300
Longest: QY BRU-MLA-RUH-BAH (3012NM - 8 hours) 757

BawliBooch · Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:42 pm

Longest Narrowbody - S7 Siberian Airlines from Bangkok to Siberia. Was promised A320NEO but on the day flight operated with a A319 configured Ryanair style! AWFUL!

Shortest widebody - Indian Airlines A300B4 VT-EHD CCJ to COK - 80 miles! Part of hoppity-scotch routing that began in BOM and ended in COK! Flight went on to Dubai!

fi622 · Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:47 am

Shortest Widebody Flight:
CKY-FNA AF A332 72mi

Longest Narrowbody Flight
EWR-ARN UA B752 3930mi

Fuling · Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:28 am

Fuling wrote:
Like the OP, my shortest widebody flight is Istanbul Ataturk-Izmir on a mix of TK A332, A343 and B77W.

My longest narrowbody flight would be Brisbane-Perth on a QF B738.

Oops, my longest narrowbody is actually a CO B752 Newark-Edinburgh. Was a great flight, how did I forget!

CairnterriAIR · Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:15 pm

Back in the early 80’s…BDL-BOS on EA L-1011’s. (Flights always continued on to SJU)

ATL-PHX on an EA 727-200

CarlosSi · Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:37 pm

Nothing too impressive.

Shortest wide body was EWR-FRA
Longest narrow body was… AUS-SEA a220.
Longest regional was DFW-DRO

DocLightning · Sun Oct 17, 2021 8:03 pm

I think my shortest widebody flight would have been GVA-ZRH (125 nmi) on a SR 743 back in the 1980s. I think it was late 1986. I don't remember how long it was (I was 9) but it was really short. We were going to ZRH but we had come from JFK. For whatever reason, SR did a "milk run" through GVA.

As for my longest narrowbody flight, it was probably the VX A319 from JFK to SFO that due to winds took a course that flew over Oregon before heading south to San Francisco. We were in the air almost seven hours.

eta unknown · Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:47 am

DocLightning wrote:
I think my shortest widebody flight would have been GVA-ZRH (125 nmi) on a SR 743 back in the 1980s. I think it was late 1986. I don't remember how long it was (I was 9) but it was really short. We were going to ZRH but we had come from JFK. For whatever reason, SR did a "milk run" through GVA.

I'm guessing you departed JFK on a Wednesday- that was the traditional quietest transatlantic day where you often saw flights not operate, operate with smaller equipment, or flights combined. SR usually operated JFK-GVA & JFK-ZRH both daily except Wednesday when there was just JFK-GVA-ZRH.

DocLightning · Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:28 pm

eta unknown wrote:
I'm guessing you departed JFK on a Wednesday- that was the traditional quietest transatlantic day where you often saw flights not operate, operate with smaller equipment, or flights combined. SR usually operated JFK-GVA & JFK-ZRH both daily except Wednesday when there was just JFK-GVA-ZRH.

That's entirely possible. I remember there were a bunch of Swiss schoolkids about my age on the flight, presumably on some sort of field trip. Somehow, they all got to take turns going up into the flight deck during the very short flight. I wonder how high we even got. The aircraft would have been pretty lightly loaded for such a short flight, but it was still a 743.

Leej · Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:48 pm

I like these threads! Looking at the old flightdiary thing again:
Longest narrow LTN-TLV U2 A320 2240nm
Shortest wide the old IST-DLM TK A333 295nm

csturdiv · Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:11 am

I think my shortest flight on a widebody would've been the A332/A333 on the SYD-MEL-SYD route.
And the longest flight on a narrowbody would've been ORD-SAN on the MD83

WildcatYXU · Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:39 am

Shortest widebody flight:
YOW-YYZ, AC, B767- 300ER, 197 nm

Longest narrowbody flight:
YYZ-PTY, C6, B737-800, 2073 nm

Kiwiandrew · Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:02 am

My shortest widebody sector would've been Auckland - Wellington on an Air New Zealand 767-200ER (approx 50 minutes), and my longest narrowbody sector would've been Auckland - Cairns on an Air New Zealand A320 ( between 4-5 hours, if I remember correctly)

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