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Monday, September 16, 2013

Welcome To The World's Shortest Scheduled Commercial Airline Flight. Please Fasten Your Seatbelts For Takeoff. We Will Be Landing In 47 Seconds...

Welcome aboard ladies and gentlemen and thankyou for choosing to fly with Loganair. Please fasten your seatbelts. We are taking off now and will be landing in forty seven seconds.
A normal scenario when you're flying between Westray and Papa Westray in the Orknay Islands in Northern Scotland.
The world's shortest commercial airline flight covering 2.7 kilometres or 1.7 miles is scheduled to take two minutes but with a tail wind, it's almost over before it begins and certainly before the stewardess has time to offer refreshments.
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