All About World's Shortest Flight 

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29 Feb 2024

Operated by Loganair, a Scottish airline, the world's shortest scheduled flight travels between two beautiful and quaint Orkney Islands in Scotland

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Islands Westray and Para Westray are connected through this flight which takes just a minute and a half, per CNN

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The distance covered by the flight is around 2.7 kilometres, which is roughly the length of the runway at the Edinburgh airport

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While the operating time of this flight is a minute and a half, the actual flying time is less than a minute

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The record for the fastest flight is 53 seconds which was flown by Stuart Linklater

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The flight features 10 passenger seat arrangement where people sitting in the front row can actually see the pilot handle aircraft operations 

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This short flight plays a crucial role in connecting the residents of Papa Westray to the rest of the world 

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This flight is combined with flights to and from Kirkwall, the cheerful capital of Orkney on the archipelago's largest island, known as Mainland

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The flight stops at Westray to pick up and drop off passengers before moving on to its next destination 

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The airline operates the Britten-Norman BN2B-26 Islander Aircraft. This flight has been operated since 1967 

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