Emirates: it’s free real estate

@kanishkkk

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@elvinjames4121

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't understand

@user-hl9gd2hg2j

2 жыл бұрын

@@elvinjames4121 emirates only flys two aircraft the 777 and the a380 so any short haul flight by Emirates would use either the 777 or a380 which are both wide body

@avgeek_0307

2 жыл бұрын

@@elvinjames4121 Emirates operates only wide body aircraft. The A380-800, 777-300ER and 777-200LR. They deploy some of these aircraft on really short haul routes to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman etc

@jacobwong2230

2 жыл бұрын

Flights from the Middle East to Dubai is the short ones and maybe Istanbul Turkey 🇹🇷

My A380 FRA-SFO flight was diverted to OAK while they flipped runways at SFO. After 90 minutes on the ground we flew 6 miles from OAK to SFO.

@pushslice

2 жыл бұрын

IIRC, Northwest in the 70s had a scheduled stop at OAK for their SFO-ORD flight on a DC-10. that would've been fun to just do the cross-bay hop..

@jacobpfister6941

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen BA also do this with the A380, but rather instead they stored it overnight at OAK and then fly it back to SFO the next day.

@shahimagesyt

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobpfister6941 Yeah I remember BA doing the cross-bay hop. IIRC, I think it was due to the BA strikes that they had to store the A380 at OAK.

@jamaldn75

2 жыл бұрын

Turkish Istanbul to Bucharest use A330

Air Canada does a lot of wide body flights between Toronto (YYZ) - Montreal (YUL) using their 777-200 & 300 or 787-9 almost on a daily.

@zcvele

2 жыл бұрын

For a long time there was 767 on YYZ YOW route, and A330 YUL-YYZ departing at 16:30

@diocanaja

2 жыл бұрын

a lot of those flights, especially in the summer, are actually headed to somewhere in europe, like I flew milan-montreal-toronto and back on an a330 and on a 767

In Korea, Kimpo (RKSS) to Cheju (RKPC) takes almost 60~70 minutes. Korean Air usually fly A330-300, but sometimes fly B777-300ER. Asiana Airlines usually fly A330-300 and B767-300ER.

For some time in 2019, Swiss used the B777 on some of the Geneva-Zurich flights, usually about 40 minutes. But since COVID this service has been reduced to a minimum with only a few A320 a day and the remainder of feeder traffic transferred to train travel, about 3hrs from Geneva to Zurich airport.

@Poke777

2 жыл бұрын

When Swiss got their 777's, it was first used on this route to train the crew on this new plane on this short route. Then it was used for long haul.

My shortest wide body flight was onboard KLM when I flew on a 777-300ER from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Aires and then on to Amsterdam. Flight time was around 90 minutes

@user-gt2uu4pp9p

2 жыл бұрын

Korean air sometimes puts 777-300er in a Kimpo-Jeju(50min flight time) domestic flight. And Japan Airlines even put a B747 on an 1.5 hours domestic flight.

I think Biman Bangladesh Airlines also has shortest wide body flight from Dhaka to Sylhet/Chattogram Cause they often use 787,777 in these routes.

Nuernberg (Germany) to Paris Orly (France) in an A330-300 with 9 Passengers. About 1 hour flighttime with Aer Lingus :)

My shortest widebody trip was Ottawa to Toronto in a 767-300ER, about 40min flight time.

The shortest widebody flight I’ve been on was Guangzhou to Hong Kong on a Cathay Dragon A330. The flight takes about and hour.

@wupr0

2 жыл бұрын

I've flown that route with CX/KA, too! It only took 40 minutes though (take-off to landing; 36 minutes for the return journey).

@ATIMELINEOFAVIATION

2 жыл бұрын

@@wupr0 cool!

Very nice topic video this one👍

With Zanzibar's new terminal having opened, there are a lot of airlines that send widebodies between DAR-ZNZ on non-bookable flights

My shortest wide body flight was on a British Airways 767-300 shuttle service from Edinburgh to London Heathrow, UK

I flew AF BZV-KIN a few years back and they had chartered a local company to do the leg, found myself in a Dassault Falcon. Needless to say: I was very happy.

Back in the 90's in Italy before the introduction of hi speed trains the domestic Rome-Milan route was mostly operated by A300s. Recently i flew a short Doha-Muscat route on a big and empty A330

3:25 The shortest widebody service I've been on is Kuala Lumpur to Singapore and vice versa at 185 miles each way on a mix of Singapore Airlines' Airbus A330-300 and Boeing 777-200. The block time is usually 1 hour but the actual flight time is probably just 30 minutes.

Air Astana (Kazakhstan), from Almaty (ALA) to Bishkek (FRU) aboard B767-300ER. Distance is around 200km, the plane is typically airborne for 30 min or so. Standard plane deployed on the route is Embraer 190-E2 or A320N family.

MIA-ATL on aTWA L-1011 back in the late 90’s. I was so stoked to be on that bird! Seating 2-5-2, I was on the port side of the 5. The latch on the closet door behind me was wonky and it kept swinging open, only to be re-closed over and over by the flight attendants. What’s so special about that? Glad you asked. Back in the day, short-haul domestic service always meant a pack of Biscoff, and the airlines were the only place they could be found. Thanks to the wonky latch, I happen to notice that was where the Biscoff were stored, and I nicked a complimentary sleeve of Biscoff the next time that door flew open. They lasted a full month after I returned home. I was quite pleased with the haul!

Probably the shortest ever Airbus A340-500 flight (scheduled commercial) must have been the one done by CS-TFX of Hi-Fly, doing an ACMI for Azores Airlines, between Santa Maria SMA and Ponta Delgada PDL, about 15 to 20 minutes flight time, depending on runways in use. I wasn't aboard, only flew on the next leg (PDL to Lisbon LIS). No bookable seats between SMA and PDL, flight was a circular one: LIS-SMA-PDL-LIS. I believe sometimes Azores Airlines used their A310s on this route too.

Although not a widebody, the shortest flight I took was a 732 from CYEG Edmonton International to CYXD Edmonton Municipal (Now Closed) 16NM or 30 KM.

Vietnam Airlines sometimes use their 787-9 and A350 900 to short range flight between Ho Chi Minh City (VVTS) to Phu Quoc ( VVPQ) just only 450km and only take 40 min flight.

In 2008 I flew Cubana from Gatwick to Havana on an Ilyshun Il96-300. We made a stop at Frank Pais Holguin airport, dropped the majority of passengers off and then flew on to Havana on a virtually empty aircraft. That was a surreal experience...

My shortest widebody was Paris to London on a BA B747 and it was not part of a longer route. It was for the WE of the 14th of July 1989 (bicentennial of the French Republic), lots of people wanted to escape Paris ... I came back on a BA B757-200 couple of days later !

I've been on some fairly hefty planes between Seattle and Vancouver back in the day. British Airways 747s (LHR-SEA-YVR), plus a nearly-empty DC-10 repositioning flight. Shows how long ago it was; now it's all much smaller planes. The smallest planes I've flown to Seattle were private, a rented Cherokee to BFI and my Musketeer to RNT.

I think the shortest I've ever been on was, once again, TUI Fly Netherlands from Orlando to Miami. My dad, who used to work as a mechanic for TUI Fly Netherlands, would do the Dutch Antilles routes several times a year, especially in the summer. He would be training the ground crew in the summer, so they could handle the winter. So he would be there for 2-3 times a summer for 2-3 weeks and he would be hopping the islands. Always love a beach foto when you're in school :/

Brazzaville-Kinshasa route was commonly used by SN Brussels, Ethiopian airlines and Kenya Airways too. During the Covid period, it has been reactivated due to reduced demand in both cities. Asky's flight is bookable in this route, but they use a 737.

@sambag.finunu6780

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Kamil. I don’t remember SN Brussels landing in BZV, please check again. But yes, FIH-BZV was even done by Royal Air Maroc.

Many years ago, I flew from Bahrain to Doha on a Gulf Air Tristar. I flew this route several times. The shortest flight duration was 12 minutes.

About 20 years ago, I flew many times ORD to GRU to GIG on either a Boeing 767 or 777 on United Airlines. The GRU to GIG portion would only take about 30 minutes.

Thanks for mentioning SIN to KUL route!

How about Emirates a380 from Dubai to Muscat

@spongebubatz

2 жыл бұрын

350 km, even longer than SIN-KUL

Atlas Air runs some very short charter flights for the NFL in their 747-400’s. JAX-MIA and PHX-LAX are two that come to mind.

China Eastern when doing reposition mission between SHA-PVG(ZSSS-ZSPD), 24Nm apart, very occasionally sell ticket to public (not online, but if you are lucky you can get one in the airport). Sometimes it's on a A340,330 or 777 It's quite helpful when you just arrive from domestic route on SHA and need to transfer abroad by PVG, it'll took about 1 hour from SHA to PVG by metro, but less than 30min if you're luck to catch one mission right away.

I have never been on it ,but aer Lingus sometimes use a330 Dublin to Heathrow

Air France used to send their widebodies (747 and 777 namely) from Paris to Corsica in the summer, between long haul flights, as a way of increasing passenger flux between the island and the mainland. My grandparents live right on the Gulf of Ajaccio shoreline, near the Ajaccio's Airport, and seeing the 747 taking off from there and roaring at full power above the Gulf was quite scenic to say the least !

Love jetting on a 777 from Tokyo to Osaka. Simply brilliant. Also been on A330 and 767 from Amsterdam to London.

I’ve flown between Aruba and Curaçao (TUI), and Aruba and Bonaire (KLM) multiple times

Atlanta to Orlando and back on an L1011 and 767 back in the early 90's during peak summer season. They even used 747's on that route I think to keep up.

I flew on a Delta Airlines Boeing 777-200LR in 2018 from Detroit to Atlanta because Delta was flying the jet to Atlanta on a one way repositioning run to Atlanta for heavy maintenance that Detroit couldn’t provide. It was a completely unexpected and awesome surprise for that short trip to Atlanta. I was actually flying to Orlando (MCO) with a layover on the way in Atlanta (ATL) from Detroit (DTW)

Antigua to St.kitts is my favorite wide-body short haul route. It is opperated on a British Airways 77-200er

Another short route not mentioned is done here in Costa Rica by a KLM 787-9. This flight takes off from San José (SJO/MROC) to Liberia (LIR/MRLB) as KLM719 and it's flight time is about 25 minutes.

The Shortest Widebody I have been on was Air Tanzania TC102 between Dar es Salaam JNIA Airport and Mwanza Airport at Lake Victoria. It was occasionally operated by the B787-8 Dreamliner, however they have been using the A220-300 more often now. My shortest Flight ever is between Geita Mchauru Aerodrome to Mwanza Airport and Dar Es Salaam Airport to Zanzibar AA Karume International Airport. The former is operated by Coastal Aviation and used to be Operated by the Cessna Grand Caravan 208 until it was replaced by the Pilatus PC12. The latter, I used Precision Air on a ATR 42 or 72. It was actually a flight that Stopped at ZNZ and Continued on to Nairobi JKIA Airport in Kenya.

@scpatl4now

2 жыл бұрын

My shortest flight was CHA to ATL and most of the time was just vectoring in to land in Atlanta

In the US, Delta used to run 767s between Los Angeles and San Diego, and TWA ran L1011s between Seattle and Portland.

@thomasyarnall999

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, a 767 from SAN to LAX!? The airlines used to connect a lot of flights between San Diego and LAX but for the last few years its been down to only 3 skywest flights per day.

@stephancox9105

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasyarnall999 This was in the 1990s, the Western merger was still fresh, and Delta was also using LAX as a gateway for trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic flights.

I remember for the longest time Delta flew various MD-11, L-1011, 777, and 767 between ATL and MCO.

About 20 years ago , I was supposed to connect in Zurich to take a long-haul flight, but my incoming short-haul flight from Nice finally landed in Geneva (can’t remember why). Swissair booked an empty A330 to transfer us from Geneva to Zurich

VASP MD11, between GRU and GIG, in early 2000s. A sector of some 35 minutes, and around 180 Nm. I felt gifted!

In winter 2019-20, Aerolineas Argentinas served Orlando (MCO) and, while not regularly scheduled, on several occasions flew a triangle route through Miami EZE-MCO-MIA-EZE or tagged onto their Miami flight EZE-MIA-MCO-MIA-EZE. MCO-MIA is just 192mi/308km.

A few years ago, BA put 747s on the LHR-MAN and LHR-EDI sectors when some 319s were grounded

Garuda Indonesia also fly a330neo & b777-300er from Surabaya (SUB) to Denpasar Bali (DPS)

Back in the 1980s, I flew on a 747 from Chicago to St. Louis, MO, a distance of about 300 miles. It was basically a deadhead repositioning route, so the plane was almost empty

My shortest route was a one off. The Boeing 707 was to take passengers from Ndola (Zambia) to Lusaka the capital where the DC-10 was waiting for us for the flight to London Heathrow. Since the 707 had mechanical problems after arriving in Ndola, the DC-10 was sent to pick us up from Ndola. There was a sizeable crowd since the route was normally serviced with a HS-748 or 737-200 but there were so many connecting passengers that the 707 was sent to pick us up, which turned out to be a failure. Since Zambia Airways didn't have much aircraft, there were no alternatives. Seeing this DC-10 landing in our small regional airport was quite the feat! Total flight time between Ndola and Lusaka was 30 minutes.

I flew on Lufthansa's B747-400 flight from Frankfurt to Berlin and back after Air Berlin collapsed, then later that year flew one of their A340's from Frankfurt to Lisbon. I've also flown BA 767 from AMS to LHR, and 777 onward to MAD. Also Iberia's A340-600 back to Heathrow. quite a unique experience flying such large jets on such short routes.

Shortest routes I have travel in a wide body was Barranquilla - Miami in a Airbus 300 in Aerocondor uffff love it was very good.

My shortest widebody flight was a few days ago - a Jetstar 787-8 service between Melbourne and Sydney with a flight time of around 60 minutes. Flying widebodies on short haul flights hit diff!

Sxm-Cur. Not a record braker, but it was my shortest route on a B747-400.

I don't remember the type of plane, but in 2015, I flew on an Avianca wide-body jet between Pereira and Bogotá, Colombia. The flight was somewhere between 50 minutes to 1 hour long

The shortest wide body route I have ever been on was STR - FRA on one of Lufthansa’s old A310s.

There used to be wide body service between St Thomas and St Croix. That was because for takeoff they could not clear the mountain with enough fuel so they had to refuel in St Croix.

Malaga to Amsterdam with the TUI 787-8. At first an old leased Blue Air 737-600 was scheduled, but then later replaced by a Dreamliner!

My shortest B747 flight in Canada: AF032(?), a B747-200 on the YYZ-YMX sector (Sept. 88). We got dinner served on this flight, the first leg on our way to Mikhail Gorbachev's U.S.S.R. (via HEL). My shortest widebody flight in Europe: The 40 minute flight on the MAD-SVQ sector (both ways) on IB's Airbus A300 (Sept. 1992). Seville's Expo 92 World's Fair was the reason for the bigger planes. My shortest widebody flight Down Under: The QF B747-400 on the MEL-SYD sector (Nov. 1993). The very small number of passengers on this flight got a hot lunch and a Mr. Bean feature (with Rowan Atkinson) as in-flight entertainment. QF11(?) was being repositioned for the next SYD-LAX nonstop flight.🙂🙂🙂

Bogotá - Cartagena with KLM’s 787-9 and then of course to AMS

EWR to BOS many years ago on aNorthWest 747!

Back before BA gave SAN its own flight to London, I flew on the B744 from SAN to PHX. I was in business class and they gave us a meal! Haha. It was fun.

I recently did a 1 hour 20 minute flight from Chicago ORD to Newark EWR on a United 767-300

Delta 767-300er fll to atl or BA 777-200 LHR to MAD was my shortest wide body flight

About a 40 min flight time from EHAM (Amsterdam) to EGLL (Heathrow) on a BA 787-8.

I once took a Northwest Orient DC-10 from Seattle to Portland.

I once did RSW-ATL on a Delta 767-300

San Fran to Denver on a United 787 back in 2016 was my shortest.

I've never been on a short wide body flight. I have to believe that cargo airlines have even more short wide body flights just based on the local UPS 767 that flies from CID to DSM, both in Iowa and about 120 miles apart.

@discountdave4537

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct. National Airlines flight 102 is the shortest widebody flight on 29th April 2013 I can think of

Middle East Airlines (MEA) Beirut-Larnaca on an A330 was 14 minutes from take off to landing with strong winds, block time is 40 minutes but is usually 25 minutes

The shortest wide body flight I’ve been on was from MSP to DEN on Delta’s A330-300. Flight was only an hour and a half.

The shortest wide body flight I've been on was from Libreville to a small island in Equatorial Guinea (I think that was the place, I forgot the island) it was on an Ethiopian 777-200LR which lasted 45 mins

I did HNL-OGG on a bookable, scheduled flight on a Hawaiian 763. 20 minutes.

shortest for me would probably be Newcastle (EGNT) to London Heathrow (EGLL). Reason for this was because the BA Boeing 777 had done a long haul from Seattle and didn't have enough fuel to keep circling around London to land because of the fog (it was bad that day). Flew it up to Newcastle, refueled, and then flew back and got a window to land.

My shortest widebody flight was SIN-KUL return trip. Remember asking advice at my hotel in Singapore about tickets. Was “No problem”, just buy a ticket at the airport and take the first available flight. Almost like getting a bus ticket. Singapore Airlines and Malaysian Airlines could be chosen with the tickets and the leg was flown with mostly Boeing 747 with scheduled flights about 45 mins apart. This was back in 1998.

I remember a flight between Lome (Togo) and Cotonou (Benin) back in 1986 on a Boeing 707 of Cameroon Airlines (the so-called "la cotière" line) less than 150kms.

@Spudandrowback7D

2 жыл бұрын

not a wide body???

@yanihat2369

2 жыл бұрын

BOEING 707 is a narrow body.

I flewd with condor from Puerto Plata to Punta Cana it was only 300 km with a b767-300er

For me it was the hop from Bonaire to Aruba, coming from Amsterdam on a KLM A330.

Air France A380 and 787 from LHR to CDG in 2010 and 2017! Awesome flights

Latam use to have an GRU (São Paulo international) to EZE (Buenos Aires) back until 2018.

Lilongwe to Lubumbashi on Ethiopian 787-9, around 50 mins flying time.

The shortest widebody flight I have been on was Rio to São Paulo aboard a VARIG DC-10, years ago. Duration was 1:15+/-.

My shortest widebody flight was back in 1996. Northwest DC-10 from Detroit to Minneapolis.

My shortest, SIN-DPS (Bali) on an SIA 777-200ER back in the day. It’s just over 2 hours if I remember correctly.

The shortest wide body flight I have ever flown on was on a Garuda Indonesia A330-300 from DPS-CGK for about 2 hours!

I flew for the day from Lanzarote to Fuerteventura on a chartered 767 in 1994.

KLM using 787's or 777's serving SJO-LIR-AMS route or Edelweiss using an A340-300 serving the SJO-LIR-ZRH route. The flight between SJO-LIR takes approximately 25 to 30 minutes.

The shortest wide body route I’ve been on was YUL-YQB (233 km / 144 miles) on the Air Transat A310. The flight time was only 22 min, and the flight was scheduled about 2-3 days per week. Occasionally you’d get the A330-200. There’s actually a trip report on my channel!

My shortest widebody flight lasted less than a minute. I was on the National Airlines flight 102 which took off from Bagram Airfield, Afganistan on 29 April 2013

@panyijie6436

2 жыл бұрын

That ain't something to joke about mate..

GMP-CJU (40min) On a 747-400 was the shortest I’ve been on. Sadly no more 747s. But this route is still operated by the 777, 767 and A330.

The shortest widebody flight I recall taking was aboard a 747 from Detroit to Chicago in about 1979 or '80. I can't remember which carrier, but I believe it was Northwest Orient.

Despite the existence of Shinkansen, most of flights between Tokyo and Osaka are operated very frequently (2 flights per hour, 1 by JAL and 1 by ANA) with widebody aircraft.

In the early 90's Delta had a B767-300 ER service SLC/LAS every evening. Had to have hte plane in LAS for a 6 am flight LAS/JFK

Dublin to Shannon (on the last century) used to have 747s

The shortest wide body flight I ever witnessed was from Hamburg Finkenwerder to Hamburg, the aircraft on this flight was the first A350 of the German Air Force. The distance between the two airports is just at around 15 km!

My shortest widebody flight was from Bonaire to Aruba, about half an hour flight probably :D

Kolkata-Delhi on Air India 787 business class (upgraded!). Just under 2 hrs.

I've flown on the popular Mauritius - Reunion flight on Air Mauritius's A340. 45 mins flight.

"What is the shortest widebody flight you've been on" well mine is Philippine 77W MNL-LAX by only 10 minutes... since after pushback something went wrong and the flight got cancelled

@spongebubatz

2 жыл бұрын

That’s not really a flight

@aquatikat

2 жыл бұрын

i get the joke but it’s technically not a flight since you weren’t in the air at all

FDF (Martinique) to BGI (Barbados) ~145 Miles / 234km. Condor 767-300er