Shortest Flight

[Frank Bama]

Sitting here bored out of my mind, and wondering what is the shortest scheduled flight that one can fly. I saw that Coex flys an ERJ from Houston IAH to Ellington field. It shows :28 minutes. The distance is 24.5 miles. Ya, I looked it up, like is said I'm really bored. Anybody hear of anything shorter?
Happy Flying.

 

[nyboilermaker]

Sure, Piedmont used to fly the BWI-DCA crossover. I think we did it in 9 minutes once. Take of 22 BWI and land 22 DCA. It was fun!

 

[RocketRob]

i've flown the IAH to EFD in 7:45 wheels up to down. Lot of work for almost no $

 

[CaptainBrazilia]

SkyWest flies LAX, SNA. Total flight time: as little as 7 minutes.

I've done ONT to LAX in as little as 4 minutes flight time. Of course, that's early morning and launching off of 26 in ONT to land on 24R in LAX.

 

[Mkay?]

Fresno to Visaillia!

 

[snine3departure]

Commutair, burlington to plattsburgh 6 minutes average

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

Hell, I was going to say WP from HNL to MKK in 16 minutes, but that seems to be a long leg compared to some of these others!

 

[jobear]

Fresno to Visaillia!

Yeah but no one gets out in visalia

Jobear

 

[chperplt]

US Air Express HYA-MVY. Depart HYA 24 and land MVY 24... Can be done in 3 or 4 minutes.

 

[DDpaysoff]

JFK-LGA repo, 3 hours and 10 minutes. Honest, ACARS. Ahh, the good ole days.

 

[ArcticFlier]

Riiiiiight...........

SkyWest flies LAX, SNA. Total flight time: as little as 7 minutes.

I've done ONT to LAX in as little as 4 minutes flight time. Of course, that's early morning and launching off of 26 in ONT to land on 24R in LAX.

4 minutes?????????? Did you forget you were under Class B and can only do 200 knots? It's something like 45 miles between ONT and LAX, isn't it? That's 11 miles a minute.

AF

 

[GuppyPuppy]

There used to be a company called West Isle Air up in Washington state that flew a scheduled flight that lasted about 1 minute. The flight was from one island to another in the San Juan's in Puget Sound.

GP

I'm sure there are some pretty short ones up in the bush too.

To Capt. Brazilla...4 minutes? A bit of an exageration isn't it? If you flew at 300 knots (which would be illegal, and impossible in the EMB120) that would be 5 miles per minute. Your 4 minutes at 300 knots would only get you 20 miles which is well short of the distance between ONT and LAX. Maybe you did this flight before SkyWest had AFIS and wrote down a time on the manifest in ONT and departed well before that time. That would be the only way that I could believe that your "flight time" was only 4 minutes. Maybe you meant 14 minutes, eh?

Cheers!

GP

 

[AMANSWORLD]

SWF to HPN low RVR and ILS to HPN 6 minutes in CRJ

 

[DrewBlows]

What is the filed altitude for these short flights? Whats the route? Direct? Vectors?

 

[ArcticFlier]

ONT-LAX routing is a bit convoluted, but you end up getting a 220 or 230 heading to join the 24R localizer. If ONT is departing 26R, which is most of the time, you're already heading towards LAX.

AF

 

[Jetscream32]

Back when Hickory, NC still had service the record in the Jetstream was 6 minutes 40 seconds CLT-HKY.

 

["TheBigPicture"]

ACK-MVY 8 MINS BLOCK

HANG ON TO YOUR A$$!!!

CLIMB CHECKLIST, LEVEL OFF AT 2000', CRUISE CHECKS, CALL IN RANGE, CALL THE AIRPORT, CLEARED FOR VIS, DESCENT CHECKS, LANDING CHECKS, WELCOME TO THE VINEYARD!!

 

[saltyswede]

747 from ONT san bernadino

 

[dispatchguy]

GRR-atw in a BA46 - 5 minutes

 

[LAXSaabdude]

There used to be a company called West Isle Air up in Washington state that flew a scheduled flight that lasted about 1 minute. The flight was from one island to another in the San Juan's in Puget Sound.

I think West Isle still exists. There are other carriers that fly inter-island in the San Juans, though. San Juan Airlines is one. Harbor Air went out of business.

LAXSaabdude.

(Looking to buy some land in the San Juans )

 

[Northern Lights]

GRR-atw in a BA46 - 5 minutes

Wow! I didn't realize that the BA46 could do 30+ miles per minute!!
GRR-ATW = 154NM

 

[boxjockey]

From my car to your mom's house...30 seconds...

box

 

[PBE]

Used to do MKCB to MKCL in the DC-3. Cayman Brac to Little Cayman, about 5 miles, but almost 10 minutes in the ole goonie bird if you took off and landed in opposite directions. Fun flight from one island to another at 500 feet high.

 

[T-Gates]

Wow! I didn't realize that the BA46 could do 30+ miles per minute!!
GRR-ATW = 154NM

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that he meant GRB-ATW...that could feasibly be done in 5 minutes.

 

[Frank Bama]

Hey T-Gates, Great Avatar!!

 

[dispatchguy]

Wow! I didn't realize that the BA46 could do 30+ miles per minute!!
GRR-ATW = 154NM

I meant GRB-ATW - fat fingers

 

[T-Gates]

Hey T-Gates, Great Avatar!!

Best picture I ever took. I'm making it a poster for my Apartment!

 

[OPECJet]

Send me one! I've know some guys at Air Cargo who would love it!

 

[trybysky]

West Isle

I think West Isle still exists. There are other carriers that fly inter-island in the San Juans, though. San Juan Airlines is one. Harbor Air went out of business.

LAXSaabdude.

San Juan Airlines bought out West Isle and are doing very well. However, Their "world's shortest scheduled route" is no longer scheduled...just a charter. It was about a quarter mile hop from one Island to another...Center to Decatur (I believe).

 

[Sphincter Boy]

Houston Intercontinental to Houston Hobby in a BE-1900 in 4min.