World's shortest scheduled flight

[TopBunk]

Malmo-Copenhagen in a 737 - about 6 minutes.

MMX Tower Clearance was "Spdbrd xxx, clear take 0ff, climb 2500ft heading 270, clear for ILS runway 30, contact Copenhagen Twr on xxx.xx"

Have known guys shave about 30 secs off the flight time by reaching 350 kts!

[Romeo Delta]

Personal shortest flight: Sacramento-San Francisco. 12 minutes in the Brasilia.

Read an article in one of the Airline mags a couple years ago about a positioning flight of an AA 727 from LGA to JFK. Took 2 minutes, if I recall.

[AA SLF]

****e - RD - that was a positioning flight. . . How about FTW to LOV less than five mins in a BN 707 . . . This would have been back before most of the readers on this thread were even born ! ! ! . . . . . .

[John Eacott]

We run scheduled flights in winter between Mt Hotham Ski Resort and Falls Creek Ski Resort, flight time 6 minutes

Our tenth season of operations, we usually operate for about 10 weeks each season,and we've carried about 35,000 passengers to date. Because it's to a schedule we have to have Charter Equivalence approval, requiring the JetRanger to be operated and maintained to Transport Class A: a bit of a PITA, but then we do get to operate to Australia's highest helipads at 6000ft

And have a ski on days off

[Solid Rust Twotter]

Lesotho has some airfields in the mountains in sight of each other but impossible to access by road. A C206 used to do the sched with a takeoff at the upper field, basically getting airborne, cutting power, nosing over and lowering flap to land at the lower after a turn down the valley.

We flew relief workers and supplies between two fields on opposite sides of a flooded area around 200-300m apart. The few seconds logged almost didn't seem worth the effort.

[flugholm]

My old pax flight log shows the following:
28 Mar 1980 MIA-FLL EA177 B727-200 N869EA
That's 21nm. Can't have taken very long...!

A few very short scheduled flights are offered from the German mainland to the Frisian islands by LFH (from Harle to Wangerooge, Langeoog, Baltrum, Norderney, Juist, Borkum) and Frisia (from Norddeich-Norden to Juist (and the other islands on request). That's Islander hub-and-spoke traffic!

[con-pilot]

Connie that Tri-motor sched wasn't Port Clinton OH to some island in Lake Erie up near Sandusky, was it? They ran that with a Tri-motor well into the 1970's I believe.

Yes, I do believe that was it, thanks.

[rawmac]

That Loganair video was shot on a flight from Papay (Papa Westray) to Westray and was relatively long because of the wind direction. I know 'cos I was piloting it. Weird to see it on the net. Weather's been lovely and sunny this last week!

[J.O.]

Originally Posted by flugholm

My old pax flight log shows the following:
28 Mar 1980 MIA-FLL EA177 B727-200 N869EA
That's 21nm. Can't have taken very long...!

Unless things have changed in Miami's airspace, that flight probably took at least 20 minutes! The flight from Moosonee to Moose Factory is about 2 minutes in a KingAir 100.

[G-CPTN]

Originally Posted by J.O.

The flight from Moosonee to Moose Factory is about 2 minutes in a KingAir 100.

The take-off roll at Frankfurt is (was) longer than THAT!

[GLS 62]

Shortest Flight

I remember TTA published schedule from KDAL to KGSW was 15 minutes gate to gate. This was a DC3 in the 60's. There was also a KDAL to KELP daily flight with 9 stops (same schedule)

[Devils Martini]

Great video, my pushback yesterday took longer than that...

Visited Fair Isle in my hardcore GA days and had a chat with the Islander chap that landed while we were there. Procedure for finding Fair Isle in crap weather - fly along the sea at 100 ft till you see the cliffs, find a cliff you recognise, climb to airfield level and land!

Nice.

[Loose rivets]

Yep, often the only way going to Sumbrough. I used to hold the Dak at some height between the waves and the cloud-base. The only problem was being careful not to get salt spray on the airframe. More often than not the viz under the cloud was good, and if I could see Fairisle at a good distance, I would be happy to go on to the lead in lights that curved round Sumbrough Head hotel.

With poor the aids of the time, once up in the cloud, most times there was little chance of a successful procedure to get down.

BA got seriously ticked-off by the independents getting in while they circled overhead.

[Charlie Foxtrot India]

Wow that brings back memories of living in JER!

Gotta love that Acoustic Lift Technology

[prospector]

rawmac,
Must be the 300hp version to lift all that gold bar

[spittingimage]

Loganair's Westray - Papa Westray ? Been there, done that, accompanied by Mrs SI and the two SI Jnrs. We were the only pax !

Also done Loganair's Tingwall - Papa Stour in Shetland. Probably about 10 mins duration; 15 nm ? Not too sure.

rawmac, you must have one of the best jobs in the world !

[The SSK]

I've done Brussels-Antwerp a few times, 7min30 in an F27, 12min in a Dakota. And since Brussels had no facilities for domestic flights, got a stamp in the passport as well.

I also once had to make an urgent trip by road between the same two airports. It was marginally cheaper to hire a car than to take a taxi, so that's what I did. So I wonder if I hold the record for the shortest ever one-way car hire - 25 minutes.

[G-CPTN]

Whatever happened to passport stamps?
In the 60s/70s they seemed to be regular, then in the 80s they faded out. Too busy? I was also aware (in the 80s) that you could LEAVE a Country without a glance at your passport. I suppose things have changed now (I HOPE so). Yes, I KNOW they have, because AIRLINES now check them to see whether they might be liable for the cost(s) of repatriation.

[YAT]

shortest one on the Dash....YFA to ZKE. Block of 0.2 and 4 minutes air time. Two reserves 5 miles apart! Lot's of fun wheeling the bird around low!

[barit1]

I once worked for an ex-TWA F/E who told me of a L-749 Cptn. who was assigned to ferry a ship from KC Muni to Fairfax (2 miles away across the Missouri River).

He got tired of waiting for the F/O & F/E to show up so he did it solo!