The world's shortest international flight is 8 minutes long.

In 2016, an Austrian airline opened a direct flight from St Gallen-Altenrhein Airport (Switzerland) to Friedrichshafen Airport (Germany). In fact, passengers only fly to the two shores of Lake Constance, a distance of 20km, with a total flight time of 8 minutes. This is the reason why this flight became the shortest international flight in the world.

If you travel by road, you have to travel 75km from one side of the lake to the other. If you take a ferry, the journey takes 1.5 hours. The airfare for this route is about 46 USD.

Previously, the world's shortest international flight was the Vienna - Bratislava route, connecting the two capitals of Austria and Slovakia in about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, the world's shortest domestic commercial flight connects the two Orkney islands of Westray and Papa Westray, a distance of 2.7km, located in the north of Scotland. The flight is operated by Loganair with a total official flight time of 2 minutes. However, in good weather conditions, it only takes 47 seconds to complete this trip. Tickets for the above route start from 27 USD. Most of the passengers on this flight are residents, medical staff... Papa Westray Island is home to more than 70 people and owns 60 archaeological sites.

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