Pinnacle to TOL -shortest route flown by CRJ?
 

Pinnacle is again flying DTW-TOL. Looks like appx. 60 miles. Would this be the shortest route flown by a CRJ? Looks like Mesaba is flying it using the Saabs.

I thought the old CLT-HKY run (CC Air [ US Airways Express ] ) was a short flight - it was about 12 minutes one-way and about 53 miles in distance from CLT.

Don't know who else does it, but ORD-MKE is only 59NM, something like 67 SM. It's probably our shortest flight, however, after the delays are built in, it takes longer than it would have to drive, at least for most people.

Definitely not the shortest! I can think of a few shorter ones...

CVG-DAY 55nm
ORD-MKE 58 nm

CVG-DAY is served by most DCI carriers is approx 49 sm

according to City Distance Tool - Find the distance between 2 cities...

gear up; gear down

I've done DAY-CVG in 17 minutes! Depart 24L. Turn left heading 210 and join CVG Rwy 18R localizer. Block time was around 33 minutes :) I got paid $18 for that flight (2nd yr pay). Score!!

Does a thru flight count? AWAC used to do lga-phf-orf. The phf-orf leg was a little over 20 miles.

What were you guys snoozin!? haha j/k
well before we were getting Block or Better (when it really didn't matter) we did a SW T/o out of DAY to a 18L landing in 12 minutes! Of course we were 2 hours late and missed the big arrival bank, but lots of work in the cockpit.. nothing like logging a .4 block line in the old logbook..

XJet used to do IAH to CLL along with Colgan Saabs. CAL finally got smart and decided a 145 is not best suited for a 63 mile flight and now it is only a Saab run, 8 times a day

Skywest use to do ONT-LAX. I'm not sure if we still do. We still have MRY-SFO and SMF-SFO.

IAH-EFD for Continental Express....7 mins :D

dtw-fnt 54 miles done by an A-320 as well

I did STL to SPI one night in 9 minutes T/O to touchdown. Not sure how many miles it was, but it was the best leg you could have going to an overnight. We used to call the hotel before we taxied out of STL casue it usually took the van 30 mins to get there from Downtown. I miss all of that flying out of the Lou. Dulles really sucks.

How about MKE-ATW (not even a cross-country!) on SkyWest's Midwest RJ's?

Though not the shortest CLT-CAE is fun. Done it in 12 mins.

Do you guys still do LAX-SNA with the Bro's? I thought that was a short one as well.

CVG-LEX...done in .2 on the hobbs...I think we were airborne 14 minutes

I think we still do, but don't know for sure. Haven't been in the EMB in over 8 years. I remember doing that one as well as LAX-OXR. Long day for little pay.

go jet does RIC to IAD. Your still talking to the same approach. Used to do CVG to CMH in less than 20 minutes. The shuttle routes out of HNL are awfully short too less than 30 minutes block.

CLT-FLO 23 minutes in the Dash today

I bid to do TOL and CAK next month, and that's all I do.

US Airways mainline used to do Ithaca to Elmira. I think it was like 31 sm.

tol-dtw is 49 miles, I beleive. Took a DC-8 from tol-YIP and back many times. Whew! lotta work in that airplane for that length of flight.

Dude, don't forget PHL - ABE....12 minutes, wheels up to wheels down.

DTW - FNT 60 mile "MAJOR" route.

AirNav says DTW to TOL is 42.7nm...so short that passengers could probably drive it in a shorter period of time than it takes them to board, taxi, and fly over there.

Actually it is shorter to drive the DTW-TOL. I drive it every week. I don't know what the block is in the CRJ, but in the Saab it blocks 52 minutes and driving is about 50.

Aaaaaaa.........how I miss the good old redbarn approach.

Don't remember the mileage, but we did IAH-EFD and IAH-HOU in Brasilias, ATR's , B-1900's and E-145's at COEX (XJT for you young 'uns). The Brasilia was so much work that some of the guys wouldn't even put the gear or flaps up if the dep. was 15's (which it almost ALWAYS is).

I think the shortest I remember IAH-EFD was 7 minutes takeoff to touchdown. You could do it in :11 in an ATR, and that was one slow bird.

MKE-MSN is even shorter! Did a MKE-ORD a few weeks back and our taxi from 27R to F1D was almost 3 times longer than the actual flight was.

wow what an ausome thread...

AA used to fly DFW-IAD-DCA in a 727 before the distance restrictions at DCA were lifted.

I use to fly CVG-DAY and CVG-IIU. We'd call while still on the ground to let them know we were about to be in range.

Quickest ever was back in my freight hauling days. We'd do MMCU-KELP. 7 miles. We'd leave the gear and flaps down in both the Falcon and Lears.
If it wasnt for the border crossing, it would be much faster to drive.

PHL-ABE in a CRJ 200. 47.7nm

Rolling down taxiway S in PHL, tower asked if we had the inflight movie qued up for the long flight.

Up until around 2004 or so, Hawaiian used to run a 717 between LNY and MKK...a distance of 27 miles.

Back in the 1990s, Delta and TWA used to have flights between MIA and FLL....a distance of 21 miles. In fact, Delta even used 757s and 767s on it (continuation from ATL).

Even further back, in the '70s or '80s, United flew 727s from SFO to OAK...a distance of 11 miles.

PacWings currently has one or two daily roundtrips between MKK and LUP (the cargo carrier I fly for also does a MKK-LUP run every morning)...a distance of 9 miles.

35 from K direct destination I havent done that in a while.

Wow - here's something you don't see very often....

Pilots bragging about having the smallest (shortest) thing...

Because the Delta station at SDF could hear you on the ground in CVG, right...

I think we did that in 11 minutes one day at AWAC, and it would have been 10 if we could have departed 35...

KCLE-KCAK on the 1900 (35 miles), KIAH-KEFD in the 145 and ATR (24.5 miles), and KIAH-KHOU (20.6 miles).