{"id":250869,"date":"2025-07-14T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-shortest-commercial-jet-routes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:00:17","slug":"just-18-minutes-the-us-shortest-commercial-jet-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=250869","title":{"rendered":"Just 18 Minutes: The US&#8217; Shortest Commercial Jet Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2025, the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United States<\/span><\/span> is scheduled to have a total of 13,907 flights with an average of 109 miles or fewer. These will carry 1.2 million seats and are operated by several US-based airlines. These are commercial flights and do not include regional bush flights. Interestingly, while <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029295\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-us-airlines-ranked-average-domestic-flight-length\/\" >Alaska Airlines operates some of the longest average domestic flights<\/a><\/span> in the United States, it also operates the two shortest routes scheduled for July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortest scheduled commercial flight in July is just 31 miles connecting two isolated communities in Alaska.<\/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":[396,476,516,3397,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alaska-airlines","category-shortest-routes","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250869","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=250869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250870,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250869\/revisions\/250870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}