World’s shortest commercial flight lasts just 90 seconds and travels 1.7 miles
Topics: World News, Travel, Environment
Poppy Bilderbeck
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Topics: World News, Travel, Environment
There's a commercial flight which lasts a grand total of just 90 seconds from its departure airport to its destination.
For anyone who's not a fan of flying, the idea of getting on board a plane to barely sit down before you have to get back off again having reached your destination that speedily probably sounds like heaven.
Unfortunately, it's not a secret super fast plane which gets you to the Maldives in seconds and it's not exactly somewhere you can catch much of a tan, although it is beautiful nonetheless.
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The flight route first began in 1967 and operates every single day of the week bar Saturdays, reported by Deccan Herald.
It only has capacity for 10 passengers - the aircraft used a BN2B-26 Islander.
The flight is operated by Loganair and its journeys - if you can really even call it that given it's more of a hop - to and from an airport on one of the islands in Orkney, Scotland called Westray and another called Papa Westray.
The plane travels a total of just 1.7 miles and takes 90 seconds to complete the trip.
Oh, but if the weather conditions are good, then sometimes it doesn't even take over a minute, one trip reported as coming in at a cool 47 seconds, however, bad weather can mean delays - even for such a small plane and trip.
The tickets for the extremely brief stint in the air are said to cost around $30.
Unsurprisingly, there's no in-flight meal service provided.
A video shared to Instagram by Aviation Heaven offers a visual representation of the flight's journey and it's not taken long for people to flood to social media to weigh in.
One user said: "This video took even longer time."
"Please fasten yo... thank you for flying," another added.
A third wrote: "The pilot is very experienced with 10,000+ flight and about 10-15 flying hour."
A fourth said: "'Cabin crew prepare for take off and landing'."
However, others had a more serious point to make.
One person wrote: "There is something called ferries / boats its a thing that floats on water with an engine and travel time could be 10 - 15 minutes. Hope this helps less costly and more productive."
While the plane's journey makes it the shortest current commercial flight across the globe - and takes it the same amount of time as many planes simply take on the runway - the title for the world's smallest runway actually belongs to a completely different destination.
And with it being positioned right next to the edge of a cliff, well, it's up to you whether you'd want to take your chances there anytime soon.