Spinoff of spinoff: shortest flight you’ve taken

[richmo]

NYC to DC on the shuttle. This was way before 9/11 when you didn't have to get to the airports so far in advance.

Same reason I don't do PHL-BOS anymore. Although its a little over 300 miles, where I go is about 5.5 hours driving from home, sometimes a little less. To fly it: 1 hour drive to PHL from home, arrive 2 hours early for parking/checkin/security, etc., 1 hour flight, then 1 hour from Logan to destination (add to that if checking luggage or renting car). Thats a minimum of 5 hours...not worth it.

The shortest flight I remember, and it was a 737, was Greensboro to Charlotte. I was headed from GSO to PHL, but it wasn't a direct flight and stopped at CLT. As I recall, just about as they got to altitude, they started down. This was awhile ago, may have been the Piedmont Airlines days...

 

[Bilberry]

Probably Champaign to Chicago or St. Louis - those were typically less than an hour flights from what I recall.

 

[bcla]

Bellingham, WA and Seattle, WA. It's 88 miles by car. When we first moved there, it was just puddle jumpers. But later PSA started flying jets in. When they went defunct United continued for several years, then they left. I think someone may still fly to Las Vegas twice a week, but I haven't looked in over 10 years.

I thought US Airways bought out PSA. I remember there was one plane that they outfitted in the same livery and with the smile.

Looks like American did too.

 

[bcla]

Same reason I don't do PHL-BOS anymore. Although its a little over 300 miles, where I go is about 5.5 hours driving from home, sometimes a little less. To fly it: 1 hour drive to PHL from home, arrive 2 hours early for parking/checkin/security, etc., 1 hour flight, then 1 hour from Logan to destination (add to that if checking luggage or renting car). Thats a minimum of 5 hours...not worth it.

Doesn't Amtrak do exceptionally well along that corridor? You kind of save a lot of time and if you're on business the stations are right in the downtown areas.

 

[chicagodisneyfan]

Chicago to Chicago last week.

Flying private plane out of Palwaukee (Chicago Executive), while some of the friends went to Midway.
As traffic was a mess, we decided to fly to Midway and pick them up. 7 minutes

 

[LittleMissMagic]

GSP-ATL - 15 minutes ascending, 15 minutes descending.

 

[J'aime Paris]

MKE to ORD

This could be possibly shorter:
Waukesha County Airport to Fond du Lac County Airport

 

[rastahomie]

Springfield, Illinois' Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport to Lambert-St. Louis International airport. It's a distance of about 88 miles as the crow (er, aircraft) flies, or about 110 miles driving. It's a solid hour and a half drive, *IF* traffic cooperates. I don't know how they measure flight times (gate to gate? wheels off the ground?), but gate-to-gate it's about 20 minutes. TOTALLY worth it over driving. And parking. And dealing with long check-in lines and even longer security lines.

 

[richmo]

Doesn't Amtrak do exceptionally well along that corridor? You kind of save a lot of time and if you're on business the stations are right in the downtown areas.

You're right...but it wasn't business and both ends aren't particularly close to the transportation hubs, so the train (even Metroliner/Acela) would probably take even longer, not to mention more expensive.

 

[Aladora]

Victoria to Vancouver 25 minutes

 

[hopemax]

I thought US Airways bought out PSA. I remember there was one plane that they outfitted in the same livery and with the smile.

US Air, United it's all the same when you are 11. I looked it up, it was USAir(ways).

And I guess since I've been there last, they upgraded the airport so Allegiant could fly in 757s to fly to Hawaii, of all places. My hometown has come a long way from when my Dad went for his job interview. He arrived on like a 6 person prop, where he was the only passenger. The pilot landed, handed my Dad his bag, hopped back in and was taking off by the time my Dad walked to the "terminal." Which was a building so small, my Dad walked in one side and walked out the other without noticing.

 

[BrianL]

Mine was Honolulu to Kauai, which is super fast. They actually break out the beverage cart and give everybody POG, and they do it really quickly! I think air time was 20 minutes tops.

 

[E&Cmom]

Toronto to Montreal....an hour. I was in my late teens, my parents were suppose to come pick me up after working there a summer. My brother broke his leg and they couldn't come so I ended up flying home

Done some shorter flights for stopover/ transfers though. Vancouver to Seattle. Ottawa to Montreal.

 

[klacey1]

New Haven to Philadelphia
LaGuardia to Boston

 

[IAHFTPT]

I've done Cincinnati to Lexington and Cincinnati to Indianapolis. I think you're in the air maybe 20 minutes (especially if the take off is in the "right" direction) for both of those. Drive time is ~1 hour - 1:15 from airport to airport Lexington-Cincinnati.

I've done the Cincinnati/Indianapolis flight many times back when Comair was still around. I think 20 minutes might be pushing it.

 

[HappyGrape]

Dublin/London or Dublin Edinburgh . less than hour

 

[bethbuchall]

Once in college I flew from Rochester, NY (ROC) to Buffalo, NY (BUF). I can't remember the reason that I flew.

 

[msjprincess]

ISP-BOS a few times for work. I guess it was about an hour.

 

[BLAZEY]

Victoria to Vancouver BC. Victoria is on a island so it is faster than taking the ferry, and sometimes cheaper. Flight is about 15-20 minutes in the air.

 

[Albort]

i think mine was from LAX--SJC. 30 mins in the air...