What was your shortest flight ?

[samh004]

Shortest flights by distance (in a 747) 52 and 69 kilometres...

Shortest flight by time (and duty carried out, not just a circuit and land)... 7 minutes. That was Sydney to Nowra. If you work out the ground speed it was a fairly decent average.

I've got a 747 boarding pass on my desk, but on that journey we never left the ground (QFM4730 LRE-LRE).

Wasn't exactly short though, took a good hour!

 

[harvyk]

Shortest flights by distance (in a 747) 52 and 69 kilometres...

Shortest flight by time (and duty carried out, not just a circuit and land)... 7 minutes. That was Sydney to Nowra. If you work out the ground speed it was a fairly decent average.

From where to where did you take a 747 only 52km?

 

[jb747]

From where to where did you take a 747 only 52km?

Tullamarine to Avalon, and Heathrow to Stansted.

 

[AlanNG]

SGN-PQC (Phu Quoc) first flight was on an ATR72 that took an hour but flight back was on an Airbus which took 35 Minutes!

 

[wingspan]

I did Tobago to Port of Spain it was about 10-15 minutes. You couldn't even pre-book a ticket you just rocked up to the airport bought a ticket and jumped on the next plane. A strange thing was that all the crew were from Scandinavia they must use it as some sort of training ground.

That must have been a while ago! You can certainly book between POS and TAB online with Caribbean Airlines these days. I've only ever had Trinidadian crew on board.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Shortest commercial same airport -
BKK-BKK (supposedly to CNX) after engine failure (unsure but under 30min)
BNE-BNE (supposedly to VLI) after engine failure (didn't leave the tarmac)

Shortest commercial different airports -
NTL-OOL early '90s. Can't remember details but it was an airborne tin can that stopped every outhouse along the way (slight exaggeration). Probably also doubles as the longest time taken to fly a set distance as well, with the flight taking about 4 hours IIRC (with no drinks, no food and no dunny)! That was the last time I allowed a client to book flights for me :mrgreen:.

 

[NM]

Excluding returntro-origin flights, my shortest domestic service would have been OOL-BNK (46 miles) followed closely (in chronology and distance) by LSY-OOL (48 miles). I don't think I ever did LSY-BNK. From memory, and it was quite a long time back, the milk-run down to CFS/PQQ used to go BNE-OOL-BNK-CFS-PQQ southbound, and PQQ-CFS-LSY-OOL-BNE northbound. I used to fly with Ocly Airlines down to either CFS or PQQ a few times a year to visit a customer who was located pretty much half way between CFS and PQQ.

Shortest international flight would have been SIN-KUL (185 miles), followed by LHR-CDG (216 miles). TXL-HAM (156 miles) is a German domestic flight and was a leg of a single flight number TXL-HAM-HEL with AY. I did LHR-AMS (231 miles) on a QF 747 back in 1974.

 

[markis10]

Tullamarine to Avalon, and Heathrow to Stansted.

I had forgotten I have also done MEL-AVV in a QF 744 jump.

 

[codash1099]

Anyone been on this one?

Prepare for take-off ... and landing: world's shortest air route

 

[Deleted member 29185]

From memory, and it was quite a long time back, the milk-run down to CFS/PQQ used to go BNE-OOL-BNK-CFS-PQQ southbound, and PQQ-CFS-LSY-OOL-BNE northbound. I used to fly with Ocly Airlines

That sounds a lot like the run I was referring to. Did it continue on to NTL do you know? I can't for the life of me remember the airline, or the stops but we only just got up and we were down again! I felt like an ant on a yo-yo.

 

[markis10]

That sounds a lot like the run I was referring to. Did it continue on to NTL do you know? I can't for the life of me remember the airline, or the stops but we only just got up and we were down again! I felt like an ant on a yo-yo.

Yes, went to NTL Oxley Airlines

Used to generate a lot of work for ATC with all those ups and downs.

 

[MacBH]

My shortest flight ever was EUA-TBU (13 nm) although it didn't seem like such a short flight at the time. I felt rather sick in that Twin Otter and couldn't wait to be back on the ground. It was also my only ever landing on a grass runway (hadn't expected that at the international airport!).

My next shortest segment would have to be SYD-OAG (108 nm), shortest international DUS-LHR (272 nm) and longest LHR-SIN (5879 nm).

 

[Sprucegoose]

LOL......the ones I've missed!!

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Yes, went to NTL Oxley Airlines

Used to generate a lot of work for ATC with all those ups and downs.

Thanks for that link. I nearly posted before that I seem to remember Taree as being a stop, but it's awfully close to Port Macquarie.