Your shortest mainline flight and longest regional flight

wxtech · Fri Mar 18, 2022 1:08 am

IAH-SAT 175 Miles
ELP-SLC 693 Miles

fi622 · Fri Mar 18, 2022 11:06 am

Shortest Mainline

CKY-FNA 72mi
AF A332

Longest Regional

MSY-EWR 1167mi
United Express E145 and E170

113312 · Sat Mar 19, 2022 12:06 pm

I recall flying cross country on Republic in a DC-9. The last leg was ONT-BUR. Pretty short. By contrast, I've also had several rides on a CRJ under America West from MEM to PHX. With winter headwinds it turned out to be about 4 hours block.

Lpbri · Sun Mar 20, 2022 2:08 am

In the early nineties, I flew AA MD-80 from SJC-SFO and then on to ORD

pezzy669 · Sun Mar 20, 2022 2:01 pm

Shortest mainline: OGG-HNL, 100 miles (DC-9)
Longest regional: ATL-CID, 694 miles (CRJ-900)

F9LASDEN · Tue Mar 22, 2022 4:34 am

Shortest mainline: FLL-MCO, 177 mi, NK A321

Longest regional: DAL-SFO, 1,476 mi, AS (OO) E175

aviationjunky · Mon Mar 28, 2022 2:05 pm

Shortest mainland: LAS-LAX, Delta B738; United A320; American A321; Alaska A320 - 236 miles
Longest regional: DAY-DEN, UA Express CRJ700 - 1509 miles

727tiger · Mon Mar 28, 2022 4:31 pm

727tiger wrote:
727tiger wrote:
Shortest mainline flight: HNL-OGG in an AA DC-10 and the return OGG-HNL in an HA MD-80 (100 miles)

Longest regional flight: DFW- CAE (and return) in an AA Eagle EMB-145 (922 miles)

Correction: I also flew COU-STL on an Ozark DC-9 (100 miles), so a tie for my shortest mainline flight.

Damn - I forgot this one: Flew on a Piedmont 727 GSO-CLT (81 miles as another poster pointed out). For me, that beats out both HNL-OGG/OGG-HNL and COU-STL for shortest mainline flight.

Biscayne738 · Mon Mar 28, 2022 5:54 pm

Shortest Mainline: MIA-FLL - Delta B722 (21 miles)
Longest RJ:CVG-SLC - Skywest CRJ9 (1450 miles)

pwm2txlhopper · Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:01 pm

Shortest mainline was in 1998 on a United 727 from PWM to MHT and then continuing to ORD. PWM-MHT 70 miles.

Also used to fly mainline Delta 727s and 757s on BOS-PWM at 90 miles.

longest regional was PWM-ATL on CRJ9. About 1000 miles

pwm2txlhopper · Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:03 pm

pwm2txlhopper wrote:
Shortest mainline was in 1998 on a United 727 from PWM to MHT and then continuing to ORD. PWM-MHT 70 miles.

Also used to fly mainline Delta 727s and 757s on BOS-PWM at 90 miles.

Longest regional was PWM-ATL on CRJ7. About 1000 miles

LXM83 · Mon Mar 28, 2022 9:20 pm

Shortest mainline: BSL-ZRH and ZRH-BSL, 78 km, Swissair A310, A320, MD-80 and Swiss International Air Lines MD-80
Longest regional: ZRH-RAK and VV, 2255 km, Helvetic Airways F100

AirKevin · Tue Mar 29, 2022 2:42 pm

Biscayne738 wrote:
Shortest Mainline: MIA-FLL - Delta B722 (21 miles)

Okay, now you have me curious as to the backstory of this one.

LY777 · Tue Mar 29, 2022 3:28 pm

Shortest mainline HNL-OGG (Hawaiian 717)
Longest regional: NAP-CDG (Hop E195)

Biscayne738 · Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:33 pm

AirKevin wrote:
Biscayne738 wrote:
Shortest Mainline: MIA-FLL - Delta B722 (21 miles)

Okay, now you have me curious as to the backstory of this one.

Delta operated a round-robin flight in the 70s-90s from CYUL-MIA-FLL-CYUL on a 722. Air Canada ran a 742 between FLL & MIA along with TW and EA over the years various equipment.

AirKevin · Tue Mar 29, 2022 11:11 pm

Biscayne738 wrote:
AirKevin wrote:
Biscayne738 wrote:
Shortest Mainline: MIA-FLL - Delta B722 (21 miles)

Okay, now you have me curious as to the backstory of this one.

Delta operated a round-robin flight in the 70s-90s from CYUL-MIA-FLL-CYUL on a 722. Air Canada ran a 742 between FLL & MIA along with TW and EA over the years various equipment.

Interesting. Did you fly one of the other legs or what. If you just flew MIA-FLL, I would think it would be much faster to just drive.

Biscayne738 · Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:02 pm

AirKevin wrote:
Biscayne738 wrote:
AirKevin wrote:
Okay, now you have me curious as to the backstory of this one.

Delta operated a round-robin flight in the 70s-90s from CYUL-MIA-FLL-CYUL on a 722. Air Canada ran a 742 between FLL & MIA along with TW and EA over the years various equipment.

Interesting. Did you fly one of the other legs or what. If you just flew MIA-FLL, I would think it would be much faster to just drive.

I worked for Delta at the time and did just MIA-FLL for fun...

Beardown91737 · Sun Apr 03, 2022 6:06 am

Shortest mainline: SNA-SAN 76 miles (tag to SAN-ORD) UA 733
Longest regional: SFO-DFW 1464 miles CRJ. This was the red-eye.

N757X · Sun Apr 03, 2022 6:50 pm

Shortest mainline: CLT-RDU US Airways A321 (130 mi)
Longest Regional: BDL-RDU Delta Connection CRJ-900 (532 mi)

DesertAir · Sun Apr 03, 2022 7:34 pm

Shortest Mainline flight: UA 737 Modesto to Stockton about 30 miles
Longest Regional Jet Flight: US Airways Express: Phoenix to Portland, OR

CairnterriAIR · Wed May 18, 2022 4:26 am

Shortest mainline…FLL-PBI, Delta 757-200…43 miles

Longest regional…BDL-ORD, American Eagle ERJ-145…783 miles

retiredmx · Sun Jun 12, 2022 2:25 am

Check a 1965 United Airlines timetable. Sked OAK-SFO flts. 12 miles across the bay.

sprxUSA · Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:24 am

Shortest AS 73M WRG-PSG (Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-200M Wrangell, AK-Petersburg, AK)
Longest OO CR2 SLC-XNA (SkyWest Canadair -200 Salt Lake City, UT- Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport)

ooslc · Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:31 pm

Shortest AS 737 PDX-SEA 130 miles
Longest DL CR9 SLC-YYZ 1658 miles

phugoid1982 · Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:59 pm

Shortest mainline (narrow body):
US Airways PHL-BWI (737-400) 90 miles

Shortest mainline (wide body)
UA ORD-IAD (777-200) 588 miles

Longest RJ
B6 BOS-DCA (E190) 399 miles

Longest Regional (Prop)

AE JFK-CLE (SAAB 340) 340 miles

DocLightning · Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:11 pm

Shortest mainline for me would be OGG-HNL on HA (717-200) at 87nm. LIH-HNL is the close second at 89nm. I've done LIH-HNL on an Aloha 732 and a HA 717.

Longest regional would have to be DEN-SBA on a United Express BAe-146. I think it was Air Wisconsin.

LizardmanXD · Mon Jun 20, 2022 11:54 am

Shortest mainline: KSYR-KBWI Southwest Airlines, Boeing 737-700 (800 on return flight)
Longest regional: KIAD-KDFW United Express, Embraer EMD-120ER

ctavgeek33 · Sat Jun 25, 2022 4:37 pm

Longest regional:
DFW-BDL (I think) on an E175. I can't find any record of this route being run by American Eagle, but I'm almost certain I flew an E175 one way on this route back in maybe 2017 or 18. If I'm misremembering the DFW flight, then the other longest RJ flight is BDL-RSW on a CRJ7/900.

Shortest mainline is BWI-BDL on a 737, most recently in February on a MAX.

FlyingSicilian · Sun Jun 26, 2022 5:35 pm

Longest regional was EWR-OKC about 17-18 year ago on CO.. shortest regional was on CO Houston IAH to Houston EFD

Shortest mainline DEN-COS I think and longest Auckland-Houston

SJCMSP · Tue Jun 28, 2022 12:51 pm

Shortest mainline: STT-SJU - Sun Country 737-700 - 68 miles
Longest regional: IAH-MSP - DL Connection E175 - 1,037 miles

TWA772LR · Sat Jul 09, 2022 5:26 am

Shortest mainline: ORD-GRR United A319 137 miles
Longest regional: IAD-SAT UAX Emb 175 1362 miles

Honorable mentions:
Mainline: IAH-AUS CO 737NG 140 miles
Regional: DFW-LAX OO CRJ700 1235 miles
50 seats: CLE-DFW COEX Emb145 1021 miles

4256456245 · Sat Jul 09, 2022 5:50 am

Shortest mainline flight: PDX-SEA Alaska Airlines B7M9
Longest regional flight: CLT-YUL Republic Airways E175

TWA772LR · Sun Jul 10, 2022 3:01 am

LizardmanXD wrote:
Shortest mainline: KSYR-KBWI Southwest Airlines, Boeing 737-700 (800 on return flight)
Longest regional: KIAD-KDFW United Express, Embraer EMD-120ER

Man that's a long way in a 120! When did you fly that?

LizardmanXD · Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:00 am

TWA772LR wrote:
LizardmanXD wrote:
Shortest mainline: KSYR-KBWI Southwest Airlines, Boeing 737-700 (800 on return flight)
Longest regional: KIAD-KDFW United Express, Embraer EMD-120ER

Man that's a long way in a 120! When did you fly that?

May 28, 2011, it was a four or five hour flight.

nkops · Thu Jul 14, 2022 3:35 pm

LizardmanXD wrote:
TWA772LR wrote:
LizardmanXD wrote:
Shortest mainline: KSYR-KBWI Southwest Airlines, Boeing 737-700 (800 on return flight)
Longest regional: KIAD-KDFW United Express, Embraer EMD-120ER

Man that's a long way in a 120! When did you fly that?

May 28, 2011, it was a four or five hour flight.

I would have gone insane on that thing for 4-5 hours. Was this a scheduled flight or ferry?

YYZSpotter1991 · Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:53 pm

Shortest mainline: YYZ-YUL LY 742 (refueling stop to pick up more passengers en route to TLV) - 316 miles
Longest regional: YYZ-MCO AC Tango A320 (before this LCC was absorbed back into AC) - 1055 miles

LizardmanXD · Sat Jul 16, 2022 6:22 am

nkops wrote:
LizardmanXD wrote:
TWA772LR wrote:
Man that's a long way in a 120! When did you fly that?

May 28, 2011, it was a four or five hour flight.

I would have gone insane on that thing for 4-5 hours. Was this a scheduled flight or ferry?

It was scheduled. I just read a big Star Wars book the whole time.

hoons90 · Sat Jul 16, 2022 4:44 pm

Shortest mainline: OGG-HNL on a Hawaiian Airlines A330(!). Sub for 717 during 717 pilot shortage. 100mi/87nm/162km.
Longest regional: YYZ-CLT on an American Eagle/PSA CRJ-900. 588mi/511nm/946km.

ArcticFlyer · Wed Jan 25, 2023 6:04 am

Based on your definition of mainline vs. "regional":

Shortest mainline: ANC-ENA, Ravn Alaska Dash 8-100, 51 nm
Longest regional: SEA-SLC, Alaska/SkyWest E175, 598 nm

Based on a more typical connotation of "mainline":

Shortest mainline: HNL-OGG, Hawaiian B717, 87 nm

bluecrew · Wed Jan 25, 2023 11:05 am

I jumpseated once on EWR-IAH, XJ E145. 3.5 hours on the "XR" version of the penciljet. Thankfully I got a cabin seat, I can't imagine that long up front with a jumpseater.
I was going to see an ex, we spent a weekend together, and that reminded me why I don't go to Houston.

Shortest mainline is JFK-LGA, but it was a repo and I operated it. I ferried VTBD-VTBS over ten years ago and we blocked nearly an hour, even though it's 20 miles away. On a revenue flight, shortest leg has been JFK-ORH. Late-night tack-on leg, usually with a delayed airplane. Off that plane now, and while I miss it, can't say I really miss it.

slick1017 · Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:18 pm

Mainline: PDX - SEA on Alaska on an a320 series aircraft - 130 miles
Regional: SBA - PDX on an Alaska E175 - 783 miles

Kent350787 · Sat Jan 28, 2023 5:59 am

Shortest mainline SYD-CBR 134nm (737 and BAe146)
Longest regional SYD-GFN 268nm (Jetstream31)

WALmsp · Sat Jan 28, 2023 5:17 pm

Regional: DFW-SBA American Eagle CRJ-701ER 1316m
Mainline: LAX-ONT Western 737-247 47m

ElroyJetson · Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:35 pm

Shortest mainline was RIC-DCA on a Piedmont 737-200 when I was kid. Approximately 90 miles.

Longest regional was a CR700 from MEM-RIC on NW. Approximately 800 miles.

notsb · Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:35 am

Shortest Mainline: BUF-DTW on a 717, 241 miles
Longest Regional: DCA-MSY on an E-175, about 970 miles (was very, very comfortable. Since then, they've swapped it for a CRJ-9 for some reason).

jporterfi · Thu Feb 16, 2023 2:35 am

Shortest mainline: ROC-SYR, AirTran B712, 79 miles

Longest regional: ATL-DEN United Express (GoJet) CRJ7, 1,199 miles

Changeup2000 · Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:25 am

It appears I have by far the longest regional flight: YVR to ORD on a Jazz CR9 for 1764 miles.

The shortest mainline flight I have taken probably is a YUL to YYZ on an Air Canada 320 for 316 miles.

SumChristianus · Tue Feb 21, 2023 2:52 am

Not that interesting as you all's but.

Longest regional: ORD-AUS - 977 miles - UA (SkyWest) E170 during the middle of the pandemic, May 2020.
Shortest mainline: IND-ORD - 177 miles - UA Flown many times on A319/A320/737

My shortest regional though was more interesting, a 9 passenger loaded CR2 on the 106 mile RKS-RIW as part of the same IND-RIW one way trip of May 2020 (flown IND-ORD-AUS-DEN-RKS-RIW due to the vastly reduced schedules of the time). United was running a lot of the Mountain West stations as tag flights, and the flight attendent seemed very confused as to where the flight actually was going as well as whether everyone going to RIW had to get off the plane at the 20 min RKS stop. For some reason I remember telling her we probably shouldn't because I didn't think we could reboard without issue because our tickets didn't mention the RKS stop and therefore gave no indication of our right to board to the ticketing system at the gate. She accepted this argument (I'm not sure in retrospect if it was even a valid concern) and let us stay on. Oh, and she chatted it up the whole time with a recently released federal prisoner sitting across from me. Was quite an interesting and fun experience to say the least!

IADCA · Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:03 pm

Shortest mainline is (I think) ATL-CHA, 106 statute miles (717).
Longest regional was SFO-MCI, 1,499 miles (E175).

T54A · Wed Feb 22, 2023 10:48 pm

Paris to Reunion Island is about 5000nm and is considered a domestic flight apparently. Does that count?

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