Longest and shortest flights you have flown

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    As the thread title says, what are the longest and shortest flights you have taken. name the airline, flight number, and if you can, the aircraft. How did the flight go? Are you absolutely terrified of flying? Will you never cross the Atlantic? Do you love flying?

    As for me, I am an absolute aviation geek. The longest flight I have taken is Emirates flight #201, Dubai - New York, on the brand new Airbus A380. London - Bombay on Air India is noit too far behind. My shortest flight was on Air Panama, no flight number, from Panama City to a desolate island owned by a resort. Las Vegas - San Diego is my shortest flight in a jet.

    If you are unsure about the length of a particular sector, you can look it it up using Great Circle Mapper.
     
    I honestly don't know the flight number nor the kind of aircraft, but I do know the time.

    The shortest I have ever been on is half an hour (thity minutes) from Conneticut to New York. The longest is probably Las Vegas to New York which is about five hours long.
     
    Longest was from France to South Africa. No idea how long it was, I was very young. :p Shortest was half an hour, from Tanzania to Zanzibar.
     
    Shortest was about 45 minutes to Manchester (approximately 250 miles).

    Longest I think was the 10 hour flight back from San Francisco to London. The only flight that's ever made me feel ill, and I'm a very frequent flier =(
     
    The shortest flight I've been on would have been London Stansted to Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup. That was a 90 minute flight, and I flew with RyanAir, I believe. No idea about the flight number (I don't believe they fly there any more), nor about the aircraft. The longest one was when I was much younger, to Turkey. That was probably around three or four hours - no idea about any of the details.
     
    Longest flight: Northwest Airlines Boeing 747, San Francisco International to Narita International, approx. 12 hours.

    Shortest flight: Northwest Airlines Boeing 747, Narita International to Ninoy Aquino International, approx. 2-4 hours.

    My recollections are a bit fuzzy, though. I definitely know the destinations and the aircraft used, though the times may be a bit off (particularly Tokyo-Manila).
     
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    Shortest: A lot of different ones all about an hour long.
    Longest: China ; 14-16 hours or something. I forget. D;
     
    I hate flying in a plane, I hate it. I just hate it, too high. I am glad you didn't actually say the word plane as needed because I never have flown in a plane. But I have flown in a helicopter (which by definition is an aircraft.) It lasted..20 minutes. We flew over Niagara Falls. It was very very pretty. X3~ We went from..Niagara Falls, to Niagara Falls. Amazing, yes?
     
    Longest: From New York to Manchester. I think that was about 10 hours, or maybe the whole trip with the other flights combined was 10 hours, I can't remember.

    Shortest: Salt Lake City to Phoenix.
     
    Only flight I've been on was from London Gatwick Airport to Orlando, Florida (and back) with Virgin Atlantic Airways and the flight took about 7-8 hours. Don't know the exact model of the plane, though it was named "Tinkerbell" lol.
     
    The shortest flight is 45 minutes. Did not leave country with that flight.

    The longest is 5 hours. It's supposed to be a 4 hour flight but the pilot made a mistake when it was misty
     
    Every flight I've been on lasted 2–3 hours so it's not easy to say.

    The only one I really remember was when I went to Italy in 2008.
    Airline: Air Italy
    Outward journey was in a McDonald Douglas MD-80. It was old enough that it had lit smoking signs next to the seat belt ones.
    I went back in its replacement — Boeing 777.

    I'm not afraid of flying, but I certainly would rather pilot my own plane to where I want to go.
     
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    The shortest and only flight I took was to New York. We were flying Jet Blue and it took about 1 hr 30 min to 2 hrs.
     
    My shortest was one hour from Connecticut to Ohio. The longest was from Texas to Japan. (A day or so)
     
    My shortest has to be from Atlanta, Georgia to Detroit, Michigan being only one - two hours.

    My Longest was to Seoul, South Korea lasting about 16 hours
     
    My longest flight was from New York to Los Angeles (and return flight), which was somewhere in the five to six hour range. My shortest flights were from New York to Orlando (yeah, blah blah, return flight), which were all somewhere around two to two and three quarter hours. :]
     
    A twenty minute flight from L.A. to San Francisco.

    And longest...from L.A. to Texas, which (I think) is like three hours or four hours.
     
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