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2. Westray to Papa Westray flight - Wikipedia

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   At 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi), it is the shortest scheduled airline flight in the world as of December, 2016. The Loganair Westray to Papa Westray route is the shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world. Flights on the route are scheduled for one and a half minutes, and actual flying time is closer to one minute.

3. Papa Westray Airport - Wikipedia

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   Papa Westray Airport (IATA: PPW, ICAO: EGEP) is located 22 NM (41 km; 25 mi) north of Kirkwall Airport on Papa Westray, Orkney Islands, Scotland. [1] The facility is best known for being one of the two airports joined by the shortest scheduled flight in the world, a leg of Loganair's inter-island service, to Westray Airport.

4. Flight length - Wikipedia

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   In the example, easterly flights from Japan to North America are shown taking a longer, more southerly, route than the shorter great-circle; this is to take advantage of the favourable jet stream, a fast high-altitude tail-wind that assists the aircraft along its ground track saving more time or fuel than the geographically shortest route.

5. The shortest international flight in the world takes just 8 ...

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   When you think about flying international, the image of wide-body jets and 10 hours journeys come to mind.

6. Transatlantic flight - Wikipedia

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   First solo transatlantic flight and first non-stop fixed-wing aircraft flight between America and mainland Europe On 20–21 May 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh flew his Ryan monoplane (named Spirit of St. Louis), 3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km), from Roosevelt Field, New York to Paris–Le Bourget Airport, in 33½ hours. First transatlantic air ...

7. North Atlantic Tracks - Wikipedia

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   North Atlantic Tracks for the westbound crossing of February 24, 2017, with the new reduced lateral separation minima (RLAT) Tracks shown in blue. The North Atlantic Tracks, officially titled the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS), are a structured set of transatlantic flight routes that stretch from eastern North America to western Europe across the Atlantic Ocean, within the ...