If people want to travel long distances or from one country to another, they take flights. This journey can be from 1 hour to 10-12 hours. You must have heard a lot about long distance flights, but do you know which is the shortest flight or has it ever happened that you are not even seated properly in the flight and your journey is over? No, right… but there is a flight journey which is completed in just one to one and a half minutes. This is considered to be the shortest air journey in the world."text-align: justify;">Where is this shortest journey to?
This world’s shortest air journey takes place between two islands in Scotland. The names of these islands are Westray and Papa Westray. There is only a distance of 1.7 miles (2.7 km) between these two islands. This 2.7 km journey is so short that if a person wants, he can easily complete it on foot, but the residents here have to take the help of flight to complete the journey between these two islands.
Why do we have to take the help of flights?
No bridge has been built between Westray and Papa Westray islands and this sea route is so rocky that no boat can be driven on it. Due to this, people have to take the help of flights to travel even nearby and they have no other option. Logan Air has been operating flights between Westray and Papa Westray for the last 50 years. Only 8 people can travel in this flight at a time.
The journey is completed in just this many minutes
It takes just one to one and a half minutes for people to complete the air journey between these two islands. For this, the people here are given subsidy by the government and this air journey does not put much burden on the pockets of the people. A total of 600 to 700 people live in these two islands.
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