The World shortest Commercial flight..
Next time you are stuck back in seat 46G with 30 inches between you and the passenger in front/behind you for the next 10 hours just close your eyes and imagine that rather than flying to San Francisco or Singapore you are flying between Westray (WRY) and Papa Westray (PPW) in the Scottish Orkney Islands. This is the worlds shortest commercial flight covering less than three miles in about two minutes !
Operated by a Loganair Islander on behalf of FlyBe it’s a summer only route and a rare opportunity to fly on an airliner built and designed on the Isle of Wright !
Written and submitted from home (51.425N, 0.331W)
That flight looks perfect for a ground effects plane, like the Ekranoplan. But I guess they don’t make them in Isle of Wight.
do you need to check in one hour before?
great, have you done it? Have you seen beach airport on Barra? BA planes landing on white sands and a schedule dictated by the tides. Brilliant!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/silversprite/208105544/
But what about the shortest commercial flight in a jet? Little commuter planes are in their own little class.
I nominate my shortest flight in a Boeing 737 at 13 minutes from Auckland to Rotorua. I was transferred to it from a cancelled commuter flight, and I was the only passenger.
@Kimo, yes a new category.. can’t beat that although close, flying between Barbados and St.Lucia on a Caledonian DC-10 – 15 minutes with the undercarriage down to cool the brakes !!
I would say the actual time flying was about 1 minute and 24 seconds, that is a short flight.