the world’s shortest commercial flight takes less than one minute.

 i am not on this one.

my flight takes more than one minute.

still in the air, hopefully sleeping, when you read this.

Passengers aboard Loganair Flight LM711, which travels 1.7 miles between the Scottish islands of Westray and Papa Westray, are airborne very briefly. On a good day, the world’s shortest commercial flight takes less than a minute — as little as 53 seconds, in fact. There’s no co-pilot, no lavatory, and only eight passengers aboard the Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft. Tickets for the journey, which is made just two or three times a day, cost roughly $22. Both Westray and Papa Westray are part of the Orkney archipelago, a sparsely populated set of islands that have proved popular with adventurous travelers in search of a scenic journey that happens to include a record-setting flight.

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‘you are the one who possesses the keys to your being.

you carry the passport to your own happiness.’

-diane von furstenburg

 

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photo credit: loganair