{"id":23785,"date":"2024-03-31T22:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/scotland-shortest-flight-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-03-31T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:45:12","slug":"did-you-know-scotland-is-home-to-the-shortest-scheduled-flight-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=23785","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know Scotland Is Home To The Shortest Scheduled Flight In The World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/shortest-routes\/\">short flights<\/a>, you could be forgiven for thinking an hour or so is acceptable, but in Scotland, these flights<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-is-the-shortest-regular-commercial-flight\/\"> are so short<\/a> you wouldn&#39;t even have time to be served, let alone finish your cup of tea (which I may note, is not offered onboard). The iconic flight between Westray and Papa Westray, in the Orkney Islands, is the shortest recognized by the Guinness World Records and covers a mere 1.7 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.7 miles means you are up and down within a flash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,595,1781,7132,7133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-scotland","category-short-flight","category-worlds-shortest-flight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23786,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23785\/revisions\/23786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}