Ultra short Haul flight in an RJ or larger jet.

The ultra long haul thread prompted me to ask,

What is the shortest flight you have taken, regular scheduled service from one airport to another? Has to be an a non- prop jetliner.


Ours was ISP-PVD, 19 minutes from wheels up to wheels down on a 737

45 minutes MAD-GRX (Granada, Spain) on an Iberia MD-87. Sadly we had been upgraded to business class so we only had 45 minutes to enjoy it. :(

I sat in the jumpseat from LAX to SFO on a 747, maybe 1 hour at most, another short flight was Tapei to Hong Kong (the old airport) on a 747

Several notable short flight in my logbook. MIA-FLL on a United DC-8-71, Wrangel to Petersburg, Alaska (WRG-PSG) on an Alaska 737-200 combi. TPA-St Pete r/t in about 1971 with my dad on an Executive Airlines Twin Otter.

Cheers

LGA777

Shortest flight I remember taking was JFK to BDL in a TWA 707. Don't remember just how long the flight was, I was 8 at the time. :)

Let's see, I've done PHL-LGA twice on US--on an A319 and a CRJ-100. Also did a third on a prop.

I've also done CLT-FAY (Fayetteville, NC) on a CRJ-200 and an ERJ-145. And props. About a 20 minute flight.

I was thinking, if Mario meant the shortest distance between take-off and landing, it would have to be any one of a hundred KC-135 flights. We would launch out of Grissom, go hit a receiver, fly a navigation leg, return for some pattern work, then land and taxi back to the same parking spot we left from 6, or 8 or 10 hours before. We used to refer to it as the "elevator effect" - fly around all day and end up right were you started :wink:

I flew a plane recently where I left JFK, flew a total of 19,500 miles, going as far as the Middle Eastand came back to NY, without leaving the plane (4 days). Right back on the same runway.

Otherwise, im terms of times, LGA-BOS, inthe air for 22 minutes after a rwy 4 departure sent us to Boston practially on a straight line. We only turned once to line up with the BOS runway.

Ron, how long was the flight? PS the Twin Otter does not count ;) But that is a great a/c to fly


List your shortest flight and route in an RJ or larger aircraft :)

LGA-PHL. that's the shortest that i've been on a airliner for. i've flown that on a DHC-8-200 (about 10 times), CRJ-200 and an A319. as far as short hops go, there is FRG-23N and ISP. then there's the helo flying; FBF-6N5, 6N7 and JRB. i hovered over but didn't land at 6N4. not one of those legs was more than 25 minutes.

by the way, anyone know the current code for floyd bennet? is it the jamaica bay listed on charts?


key:
23N= bayport
6N4= pan am building
6N5= west 30th st. helipad
6N7= ny skyports 40th st.
JRB= port authority downtown manhattan

I have done CVG-IND a bunch of times 20-30 minutes.
Also MKE-ATW DC-9 about 15 minutes.

Corey

ATL-JAX was my shortest flight on the B767-300. Took about 40-45 minutes.

My shortest flights include LGA-PHL, JFK-BOS, MIA-MCO.

In the Middle East - Dhahran to Bahrain - 4 minutes at 2,500 ft on a Gulf Air A320.

In the Middle East - Dhahran to Bahrain - 4 minutes at 2,500 ft on a Gulf Air A320.


WOW winner!!! What was that, some sort of repositioning flight?