
America's shortest airline route (for a short time only): Scheduled through June 1, 2020, American Airlines is offering a 29-mile service across Colorado between the airports at Eagle-Vail and Aspen (pictured).

World's shortest airline routes: Anguilla Airlines runs an 10-minute international flight between Sint Maarten (pictured) and Anguilla. The distance covered is 12 miles.

Shortest international flight: Another 10 minutes will take you by road from Anguilla's Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport to Little Bay beach (pictured).

World's shortest airline routes: May 2018 saw the launch of another quickie international flight -- the 15-minute trip between the Caribbean island of Aruba (pictured) and Venezuela's Punto Fijo.

Former record-holder: People Viennaline ran an eight-minute 13-mile service between Switzerland's St. Gallen-Altenrhein and Germany's Friedrichshafen airports, but it was discontinued in 2017.

Shortest regular commercial flight: Scottish airline Loganair has been running an air bridge between the Orkney islands of Westray and Papa Westray for around 50 years, making it the shortest nonstop regular flight anywhere in the world.

Shortest intercontinental regular commercial flight: Royal Air Maroc offers a regular flight, operated by ATR-72 turboprop aircraft, linking Tangiers, at the northern tip of Morocco, to the British territory of Gibraltar.

Shortest regular commercial flight in North America: It's just 30.49 miles between Barnstaple Municipal Airport on Cape Cod to Nantucket Memorial Airport on the island of Nantucket (pictured).



